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House Republican Appropriators restored full funding to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Where NED is the common denominator among NED, TED, FRED, USAID & Democracy
President Trump had asked for zero. House GOP puts back $315,000,000 and lets NED take in more cash through government contracts. (pages 29-30)
NED is currently funding disinformation campaigns to undermine Pres Trump and actively subverting his foreign policy by funding protests against him in countries like the DRC, protesting the mineral rights deal he was negotiating while he was in the negotiations.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a U.S.-based, congressionally funded nonprofit organization established in 1983 to promote democratic institutions and civil society abroad through grants to non-governmental groups in over 90 countries. It positions itself as a private foundation, but it receives the vast majority of its funding from the U.S. government.
NED acts as a "white glove" for U.S. foreign intervention, funding regime-change efforts, and domestic politics despite its charter prohibiting involvement in U.S. elections or internal affairs.
Funding Efforts That Impacted Trump Messaging Domestically: NED has faced scrutiny for grants to the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a U.K.-based nonprofit (via its U.S. affiliate, AN Foundation), which received NED funding in 2023-2024 to combat perceived disinformation abroad. However, GDI's activities extended to rating U.S. media outlets, labeling conservative sites like Newsmax, The Daily Wire, and the New York Post as "high-risk" for disinformation, which led to advertiser boycotts and an estimated $100 million in lost ad revenue for those outlets. GDI's internal progress reports to NED boasted of suppressing the reach of Donald Trump's messaging during the 2024 election cycle as a "win," framing it as part of broader anti-disinfo efforts. This has been documented in congressional reports and investigative journalism, prompting NED to acknowledge in a September 2024 House Small Business Committee hearing that GDI had improperly engaged in domestic politics—a violation of NED's guidelines.
— this indirectly undermined Trump by financially crippling pro-Trump media voices, using U.S. taxpayer dollars
NED & STEVE
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funds initiatives that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), particularly in the context of international democracy promotion. These efforts focus on supporting underrepresented and marginalized groups abroad, such as women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ communities, and disenfranchised populations, through grants to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working on human rights, civic engagement, and inclusive political processes. While NED does not typically use the explicit term "DEI" (which is more common in U.S. domestic policy contexts), its thematic priorities and grantmaking substantively align with DEI principles by advancing representation, equity, and inclusion in democratic societies worldwide.NED's support is channeled through its global thematic areas and strategic initiatives, which emphasize protecting human rights, bolstering inclusive political institutions, and promoting civic engagement for underrepresented groups. For instance:
These grants, often under $150,000, are awarded annually to over 2,000 NGOs in more than 100 countries, with a focus on transitional or repressive environments where it argues, inclusion is critical for democratic resilience. NED's funding for such initiatives has continued despite broader U.S. government disruptions in 2025, including a funding freeze that led to program suspensions and a lawsuit by NED to access congressionally appropriated funds. However,
USAID and IOM
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has funded the International Organization for Migration (IOM), serving as one of its major donors for various humanitarian, migration management, and development projects worldwide.According to official U.S. government spending data, USAID has provided approximately $3.73 billion to IOM, accounting for about 38.55% of the organization's funding from U.S. sources
The picture most of us had of migrants, is of desperate people fleeing war-torn countries on foot. Most certainly we didn't think of refugee migration as a process which is coordinated and scheduled by International Organization for Migration (IOM), NGOs, done with chartered flights. Who decides how to schedule flights, which countries to schedule them, which migrants get these flights.
The US paid IOM a million dollars for chartered flights of 12,000 Lebanon refugees in 2006, but there were nearly a million Lebanon refugees total. How was that 12,000 chosen? And what's more, the document seems to lay responsibility for "reception arrangements" on the country of origin and even seems to warn against returning migrants. All this strongly points to a globally coordinated effort, decades in the making, to set up an infrastructure to transport millions of "refugees" without any corresponding infrastructure for them to return home.
This infrastructure for mass one-way migration in place done knowingly, and to destabilize the country of origin was intentional, as well. That's just ... horrid for everyone involved. Migrants and Westerners alike. @DataRepublican
