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Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump used USAID funds for their pet projects, records reveal.
In 2018, then-First Lady Melania Trump on her first major solo international trip showered praises on the United States Agency for International Development as in Africa she handed out school supplies to children as part of her "BeBest" initiative in collaboration with USAID. "It's really touching. I'm glad that I'm here to see in person what the children are going through, and see that they're educating them in the right way," Melania had said at that time.
As Donald Trump is now gutting USAID, old records of how his wife Melania Trump and daughter Ivanka Trump promoted the agency surfaced.
In 2019, Ivanka Travelled to Africa with USAID and met women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia and rural cocoa farmers.
Records now reveal that both Melania and Ivanka used thousands of dollars from USAID to fund their pet projects during the first term. USAID helped Melania Trump's Be Best program and Ivanka Trump's Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative. And they traveled with the agency on separate trips to Africa where they praised the work USAID was doing.
End of USAID
In his first term, Donald Trump cut USAID funding but the agency was invested in his family's government ventures, records reveal. Elon Musk recently announced that USAID will be shut down as it is draining out a huge amount of government money for no good reason. President Trump said he agreed to the reasoning and USAID will be shut down. "USAID is driving the radical Left crazy, and there is nothing they can do about it because the way in which the money has been spent, so much of it fraudulently, is totally unexplainable. The corruption is at levels rarely seen before. Close it down!" Trump posted Friday making it clear that he fully endorses Elon Musk's plan of shutting USAID down.
Hundreds of USAID contractors were placed on unpaid leave and some were terminated. Its Washington DC office is closed and employees were either put on leave or told to work from home. A judge has now temporarily blocked Trump from placing the workers on leave.
