Hundreds of thousands have died from infectious diseases and malnutrition thanks to the Trump administration gutting USAID. Those funds would have gone toward fighting numerous preventable and treatable diseases abroad.
Instead, Reuters has found that the Trump administration doled out $15 million of those funds for the personal security detail of Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought.
Trump picked Vought, a key architect of Project 2025, to head the powerful OMB after pretending to know nothing about the Project during the campaign. It just so happens that throttling USAID funding was part of Project 2025’s plan, too. Vought also became the acting director of USAID. Convenient!
The $15 million is to cover the costs for Vought’s protection by the U.S. Marshals Service until the end of 2026, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.
