We've learned recently, partly as the result of Department of Government Efficiency digging, many "non-governmental" entities are really just fronts for government activities that Americans would never stand for if Washington attempted them directly.
For example, America's
border crisis was funded in large part by President Joe Biden's government, which sent large sums of money in the form of
grants to various NGOs that helped train migrants on how to get to the United States - and how to claim asylum when they arrived.
NGOs helped the illegal immigrants with expenses on their way, and then provided legal resources and
more than $22 billion worth of assistance for them - including cash for cars, home loans and business start-ups - once they got in.
This was US taxpayer money, laundered through "independent" organizations that served to promote goals contrary to US law, but consistent with the policy preferences of the Biden administration.
Under President Trump, this funding halted - and, unsurprisingly, the flow of illegal immigrants did, too.
Likewise, the weird wave of sudden global enthusiasm for "trans rights" and novel ideas about gender turns out to have been
largely funded by the US government through USAID grants.
Federally funded NGOs spent millions on everything from a transgender opera in Colombia, to a campaign promoting "being LGBTQ in the Caribbean," to an LGBTQ community center in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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