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Committee debate spotlights contested grant examples — members disagree over interpretation and scale
Summary
Republicans displayed a long list of grants they say represent ideological spending (LGBT programs, DEI, condoms, entertainment); Democrats and some witnesses said many of those items are state‑department projects or mischaracterized, and called for precise accounting rather than rhetorical lists.
The hearing featured repeated, often graphic, citations of specific grants and awards that committee Republicans called emblematic of mission creep at USAID and State. Examples cited by the chairman and other members included small grants for civic programming and what members described as cultural or gender projects — items the chairman said were wasteful and offensive to many taxpayers.
Committee members cited individual figures from staff lists and reports: examples in testimony included a $2,000,000 item in Guatemala (described in…
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