The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has listed Liberia among several other countries that America is spending on wastefully.
He highlighted that some US$1.5 million were directed towards voters’ confidence in Liberia when America too need voter confidence.
Addressing the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Priority Summit in Miami, on Wednesday, February 19, 2025 the US President said these are just some he could read as the list could go on all day long.
“By doing this, Americans will tell us where there is waste. They’ll be reporting it themselves,” he stated.
In that speech intended for business leaders from all across the nation and all around the world, President Trump was emphatic that, “If you want to build the future, push boundaries, unleash breakthroughs, transform industries, and make a fortune because you want to make a fortune.”
Below are excerpts of the first American President’s speech on what he considered as the US Government’s spending and waste during the Biden administration:
And here are just a few examples of where your money was going before I came along.
We’ve accomplished more in four weeks than most administrations accomplish in four years. On my first day in office, I imposed an immediate federal hiring freeze, a federal regulation freeze, and a foreign aid freeze. I signed an order creating the Department of Government Efficiency and put a man named Elon Musk in charge.
These are just some of the just taken at random. Oh, there are much worse examples than this. I was just looking at them before the speech, and I can tell you they were much worse. And there are some that are horrible, but I don’t want to really say them because they’re very, very embarrassing to people, very, very embarrassing. And they’re really something, but you’ll be seeing it and you will be reading about it.
But just I’m taking a random $2 million for sex change operations in Guatemala, $20 million for Sesame Street performances in Iraq. $20 million. That’s a lot of money. You know, I know what it costs to do those things. You get a cast over for $50,000, give them a couple of bucks tip, and that’s it.
Not $20 million. $20 million. That’s Gone with the Wind on steroids. $101 million for 29 diversity, equity, and inclusion contracts at the Department of Education. Wow.
And we’ve also canceled we’ve canceled all of these, saved all of this money. And, again, this is just a small sample. This could go on. I could read them all day. $520 million for a consultant.
I want to know who is that consultant. To do ESG, that’s environmental, social, and governance investments in Africa. $25 million to promote biodiversity conservation and elicit livelihoods by developing socially responsible behavior in Colombia, $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. Nobody knows what that even means. None of this stuff.
Nobody everyone’s trying to figure out what the hell does it all mean? $42 million for social and behavior changes in Uganda. $40 million is a lot of newspaper ads in Uganda. $70 million for research of evidence based solutions for development challenges. $10 million for Mozambique medical male circumcision.
What does that mean? $2.3 million for strengthening independent voices in Cambodia, $14 million for improving public procurement in Serbia, $486 million to the consortium for elections and political process strengthening including $22 million for inclusion, inclusive participatory political process in Moldova and $21 million for voter turnout in India. What do we need to spend $21 million for voter turnout in India? Wow. $21 million.
I guess they were trying to get somebody else elected. Wow. We ought to tell the Indian government because when we hear that Russia spent about two dollars in our country, it was a big deal. Right? They took they took some Internet ads for $2,000.
This is a total breakthrough. $21 million for India elections, $29 million to strengthen the political landscape in Bangladesh, $20 million for fiscal federalism, and $19 million in addition to the $21 million for biodiversity conversion in Nepal, $1.5 million for voter confidence in Liberia. We need voter confidence too when you read this list. $14 million for social cohesion in Mali, $2.5 million for inclusive democracies in South Africa, $47 million for improving learning outcomes in Asia. Asia is doing very well.
We don’t need to give them money. In another program, $50 million plus another $50 million for condoms for Hamas. Do you know about that? $100 million for condoms. Condoms.
Does everybody know what a condom is? For Hamas, $100 million. I just don’t want to bore you, but these are just some and not nearly as bad as others. And some are just, I just don’t want because they’re too too, incendiary.
We’re also working to end the highest inflation in our country’s history, all caused because they played with our energy policy and wasted money on the green new scam and other things such as that. And they wasted monies at at never seen before levels.
If Joe Biden had simply held federal spending at the pre pandemic levels we had in 2019, we right now, we would have virtually no inflation. We’re trying to balance the budget immediately, and because of the tariff income, which is really it’s it’s already turned out to be amazing, actually, It’s really meant more for bringing countries and companies into our country, but it’s, the numbers are rather staggering because we’re the big piggy bank that everybody wants to be, and they can play games and they can say, well, there’ll be retribution and, you know, equal this and that, but they can’t be equal.
But we want to keep it so that we’re the big piggy bank. And if we had years like we did the last four years, that wouldn’t have lasted too long. So we’re not promising it, but, you know, all of these things could happen. We we hope to balance our budget, so I don’t want to promise it. If I do and we come about ten dollars short, the fake news media back there would say, we have breaking news.
I will tell you that, But not too many of them, which is now really waging war on government waste, fraud, and abuse, and they’re curbing inflation and saving taxpayers billions and billions of dollars every single day. And there’s even under consideration a new concept where we give twenty percent of the Doge savings to American citizens and twenty percent goes to paying down debt because the numbers are incredible.
So many billions of dollars billions, hundreds of billions, and we’re thinking about giving twenty percent back to the American citizens and twenty percent down to pay back debt and pay down debt, which is if you look at value, if it were a real estate balance sheet, the debt is tiny, but we still we still want to pay it down.