For years PRI has urged the United States to get out of the business of aborting, sterilizing and contracepting the world. Population control began a half century ago in the dark fear of exploding human numbers.
Most people now realize that this was an imaginary crisis, a fraud perpetrated on the American people to pick their pockets, at the same time it deprived peoples around the world of their children.
In our most optimistic moments, however, we never imagined that an American president would simply shut down the entire anti-baby, anti-natal—indeed, anti-human—enterprise in one fell swoop.
But Elon Musk has now confirmed that this is exactly what the Trump administration intends to do.
Musk, who heads the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, said that “We’re shutting [the United States Agency for International Development] down. With regards to the USAID stuff, I went over it with [the president] in detail and he agreed that we should shut it down.”
USAID has now been shuttered, its website is down, and its thousands of employees have been put on paid leave. They are no longer allowed in their offices and have been locked out of the agency’s computer systems while DOGE conducts a careful audit of what the rogue agency has been up to.
I have long been critical of USAID for many reasons. It routinely ignores the pro-life laws of the countries it operates in by promoting abortion within their borders. It tries to remake innocent, untouched corners of the world into Sodom and Gomorrah by funding pornographic sex education and gender ideology programs. And it forces countries to adopt population limitation programs on pain of not receiving foreign aid.
And this doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of its other crimes, like funding biolabs in China (!), terrorist organizations in the Middle East, DEI programs everywhere in the world, and a global censorship campaign. It has even interfered in U.S. politics, by giving grants to NGOs with close connections to the Democrat Party.
President Trump has said that USAID is “run by a bunch of radical lunatics.” This is no exaggeration. Samantha Power, who headed the U.S. Agency for International Development under Biden, was just such a radical, weaponizing U.S. foreign assistance to promote abortion and the LGBT agenda.
After taking a look at the books, Musk has now gone even further, describing the agency as a “criminal organization.”
I couldn’t agree more. It has violated the laws of both the United States, and those of many of the countries—including democratic countries—that it has operated in. It is broken beyond repair.
The plan now is to shutter the agency and move decisions concerning foreign aid to the State Department, placing it under the supervision of the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. Rubio has said that any future aid approved by the State Department will have to conform to the foreign policy of the Trump administration.
And that foreign policy includes the Mexico City Policy, forbidding any U.S. funds from being used to perform abortions, promote abortions, or lobby for the legalization of abortion. It also includes a prohibition on funding any program of forced abortion or coercive sterilization, or the gender insanity that the radical left has embraced.
Senate Democrats are up in arms, hyperventilating that the president lacks the authority to dismantle the agency without congressional approval. The problem with their argument is that the agency was created in 1961 by executive order. This suggests that it can be abolished by one.
While we await President Trump’s announcement that USAID has been permanently shuttered, we will be monitoring the major abortion/population control groups. These are organizations that have received hundreds of millions of dollars over the years to do USAID’s abortion dirty work.
They, too, are led by “radical lunatics” who despise the majority of their fellow human beings and want to drastically reduce the world’s population.
If and when the State Department decides to resume certain foreign aid projects, we will be watching to make sure that these groups are never again on the receiving end of your tax dollars.
