DOGE subcommittee to look at US foreign aid spending

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., chairwoman of the subcommittee, said the proceeding comes arsenic Americans are "shocked" to observe however their payer dollars person been spent overseas.

The subcommittee has said it volition "expose egregious overseas assistance spending that has undermined U.S. interests, reappraisal projected reforms, and assistance the Trump Administration’s efforts to rein successful America’s bloated bureaucracy."

The proceeding follows the Department of Government Efficiency's downsizing of the U.S. Agency for International Development arsenic the Trump medication works to dismantle the bureau that oversees overseas assistance and improvement programs.

Democrats are expected to question 3 witnesses, including Max Primorac, a Heritage Foundation probe chap who formerly served arsenic USAID’s main operating serviceman and is expected to reason that overseas assistance organizations person weakened the U.S. influence.

“What I volition bash is amusement however the woke agenda harmed the American marque name. It made america synonymous with values that are rejected by astir of the world,” Primorac told the Daily Signal.

Democrats support assistance amid USAID cuts

USAID is apt to beryllium a large taxable astatine the hearing. The bureau has laid disconnected thousands of workers and chopped programs worldwide arsenic the Trump medication continues its efforts to ace down connected authorities spending.

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USAID has seen its Washington, D.C., office shuttered implicit the past period arsenic thousands of its programs person collapsed worldwide.

While Republicans, including President Donald Trump, person criticized USAID for wasteful spending and pushing a wide agenda, Democrats reason agencies similar USAID play a captious relation successful maintaining U.S. power abroad.

"We got the champion subject successful the world, but we besides person diplomacy, and we besides person our planetary allies, our friends," said Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas. "But also, 1 large instrumentality that the U.S. has is brushed power. That is, being capable to supply assistance to countries ... it's successful our champion interest."

DOGE staffers resign over cuts

Amid the turmoil astatine DOGE, 21 staffers resigned Tuesday successful protestation of the wide cuts the bureau is spearheading, refusing to comply with the downsizing effort.

The employees, formerly with the U.S. Digital Services department, wrote successful a letter, "We volition not usage our skills arsenic technologists to compromise halfway authorities systems, jeopardize Americans' delicate data, oregon dismantle captious nationalist services," arsenic archetypal reported by the Associated Press.

In response, Musk labeled the staffers arsenic “political holdovers” and claimed they would person been fired if they had not resigned.

Federal workers 'do not deserve' a paycheck: Marjorie Taylor Greene

Greene has precocious travel nether occurrence for saying national workers “do not deserve” their paychecks.

"Those jobs are paid for by the American taxation radical who enactment existent jobs, gain existent income, wage national taxes, and past wage these national employees. Federal employees bash not merit their jobs. Federal employees bash not merit their paychecks," she said Tuesday during a House committee meeting.

Amy Gleason named interim DOGE chief

The White House confirmed that Amy Gleason, a erstwhile U.S. Digital Services official, is the interim head of the agency.

A caller tribunal filing indicated that Musk is not successful complaint but serves arsenic a elder advisor to the president.