US foreign aid went towards funding legal advice for transgender asylum seekers in the UK in a move branded as a “massive societal and political interference”.
The Telegraph has revealed that former president Joe Biden’s administration donated at least $120,000 to DEI and LGBT initiatives in Britain, including pride-themed concerts and a book festival interview series on “gender identity and inequality”.
It comes as US President Donald Trump begins to disband USAid, the US international development agency, after claiming US taxpayers were financing “radical” left wing schemes.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage claimed Biden had pushed a “massive societal and political interference” programme in the UK, praising the return of “common sense” under Trump.
He said the US funding had previously been motivated by a “Leftist, globalist, woke agenda to completely transform the Western world, to break down all the institutions that we believe in”.
Nearly all the aid to left-wing organisations however came from the US State Department, not USAid. The department will most likely absorb USAid if it is successfully dismantled.
In late 2022, the department donated $25,000 to Rainbow Migration, a company providing legal advice to LGBT people seeking asylum in the UK.
It also approved a further $40,000 towards the Edinburgh International Book Festival to fund a number of interviews “engaging with social issues around gender identity and inequality, racial equity, and diversity”.
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In 2024, another $20,000 was given to “Classical Pride”, a concert series in London that highlighted the “importance of LGBTQ+ music and musicians to classical music, giving classical music a place in the wide-ranging Pride celebrations”.
Trump’s efforts to shut down USAid were paused on Friday due to legal challenges.
Billionaire Elon Musk, the US government’s efficiency tsar, claimed he would be “feeding USAid into the woodchipper”.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused Biden’s administration of allocating millions of dollars to left-wing programmes including $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia, $47,000 for a “trans opera” in Colombia, $32,000 for a trans comic book in Peru, and $70,000 to produce a DEI musical in Ireland.
However, critics have said that getting rid of USAid will pave the way for a surge in Chinese influence, undermining the soft power of the US.
In addition, they argue that it has saved millions of people around the world since it was created by John F Kennedy in the 1960s.
A spokesman for the US state department said that Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, had “paused all US foreign assistance funded by or through the state department and USAid for review” following an executive order from President Trump.
He added: “We are reviewing all foreign assistance programmes to ensure they are efficient and consistent with US foreign policy under the America First agenda.”
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The Telegraph has revealed that former president Joe Biden’s administration donated at least $120,000 to DEI and LGBT initiatives in Britain, including pride-themed concerts and a book festival interview series on “gender identity and inequality”.
It comes as US President Donald Trump begins to disband USAid, the US international development agency, after claiming US taxpayers were financing “radical” left wing schemes.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage claimed Biden had pushed a “massive societal and political interference” programme in the UK, praising the return of “common sense” under Trump.
He said the US funding had previously been motivated by a “Leftist, globalist, woke agenda to completely transform the Western world, to break down all the institutions that we believe in”.
Nearly all the aid to left-wing organisations however came from the US State Department, not USAid. The department will most likely absorb USAid if it is successfully dismantled.
In late 2022, the department donated $25,000 to Rainbow Migration, a company providing legal advice to LGBT people seeking asylum in the UK.
It also approved a further $40,000 towards the Edinburgh International Book Festival to fund a number of interviews “engaging with social issues around gender identity and inequality, racial equity, and diversity”.
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In 2024, another $20,000 was given to “Classical Pride”, a concert series in London that highlighted the “importance of LGBTQ+ music and musicians to classical music, giving classical music a place in the wide-ranging Pride celebrations”.
Trump’s efforts to shut down USAid were paused on Friday due to legal challenges.
Billionaire Elon Musk, the US government’s efficiency tsar, claimed he would be “feeding USAid into the woodchipper”.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused Biden’s administration of allocating millions of dollars to left-wing programmes including $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia, $47,000 for a “trans opera” in Colombia, $32,000 for a trans comic book in Peru, and $70,000 to produce a DEI musical in Ireland.
However, critics have said that getting rid of USAid will pave the way for a surge in Chinese influence, undermining the soft power of the US.
In addition, they argue that it has saved millions of people around the world since it was created by John F Kennedy in the 1960s.
A spokesman for the US state department said that Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, had “paused all US foreign assistance funded by or through the state department and USAid for review” following an executive order from President Trump.
He added: “We are reviewing all foreign assistance programmes to ensure they are efficient and consistent with US foreign policy under the America First agenda.”
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