Sen. Lisa Murkowski went on the attack again on Thursday, this time reproaching the Trump Administration for its cuts to the notorious program USAID. The program is known for humanitarian assistance, but is also believed to have served as a funnel for CIA operations overseas. During the Biden Administration, USAID spent $1.5 million to advance DEI initiatives in Serbia and $3.2 million last year to a subsidiary of BBC, BBC Media Action.
“This week, I met with some Alaskan USAID employees. They not only informed me of the confusing and callous handling of personnel matters by OPM and DOGE, but they also painted an incredibly troubling picture of what the world looks like without humanitarian assistance from the United States,” Murkowski said. “Although I support measures to find inefficiencies within the agency, USAID’s mission to keep people healthy and safe in even the most remote corners of the world should not be eliminated. Dr. Peter Kerndt, an Alaskan physician who has dedicated his career to treating tuberculosis in Alaska and around the world, shared with me, ‘America is great, because America is good.’ It is imperative we not lose sight of that,” Murkowski said.
Taxpayer funding for USAID had ballooned under the Biden Administration, from $26 billion in 2019 to $42.4 billion in 2023. Check the official numbers here.
In 2024, Mexico received over $58 million in USAID funding, and Guatemala received $189 million. USAID gave Venezuela $211 million and funneled $61 billion to Ukraine. Syria, which has been on the State Department’s list of terrorist states, received $512 million in USAID funds.
The US debt stands at nearly $36 trillion. For each American man, woman, and child, that’s $108,000 in debt owed to other countries. But for every actual American taxpayer, it’s over $323,000 owed.
The Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency has thus far saved taxpayers about $170 billion, according to USDebtClock.org
Murkowski is upping her social media activity as she prepares to release her memoirs in June, titled “Far From Home.” She is positioning herself as the anti-Trump, anti-DOGE Republican in the Senate in a way she has not done in the past, siding with the president of Ukraine against Trump in the middle of a sensitive negotiation earlier this year.
In other words, Lisa Murkowski is on the take! The receiving end of our laundred stolen taxes. She has now personally confirmed this with her attacks.
Hey Princess Entitled Lisa, we don’t get a rats turd what you do. Clearly you were another creature stealing from the American people. Shame on you! Someone please slap her back into reality!
I don’t think we would want to know what Lisa’s ‘reality’ is. It danged sure isn’t anything a normal person would know.
There is no cure for a egg sucking dog!
That’d take a lot of slapping!!
Senator Murkowski has done nothing to cut government waste during her entire political career. NOW, she rises out of the swamp to complain. Go figure?
Of course she does. She’s a Democrat wannabe.
And she is the Princess of Pork.
The audacity and gall of this woman, trying to lecture Trump about the “right” way to go about trimming the “fat” off inefficient and wasteful (downright theft!) spending of TAXPAYER $$$. DOGE has uncovered so much waste, abuse and fraud that it just makes most Americans’ head spin … and not even a SINGLE Democrat and one particular Republican, have acknowledged this fact!
This lame-o’excuse of a politician needs to be voted out (She’ll bow out before 2026, her memoirs are just too damn important otherwise)!
I for one, can no longer stand looking at her, let alone watch anything that has to do with her in Congress or here in the State. I gag vehemently when I see her face either in print or on TV. PLEASE, ALASKA … Let’s get rid of this RINO … the sooner, the better!
I am confident USAID is a large part of her resources for gaining access to the power, that, well, has those resources. Bitcoin makes it simple by ensuring the money laundering can’t be traced. It’s a club. If I am wrong, let’s take a close look at the contracts and her donors. You will see $100,000 invoices for work that was never done, I am confident.
lisa has lost her way. i would not read her memoirs if someone gave it to me
She must have finally realized that she won’t be getting any more kickbacks from that money laundering fund.
So she is saying. You do not pay enough in taxes. You have too much money and Liberty Lisa thinks she needs to help the government take even more! The American people have paid more than their share. UN is crying that they do not have enough money OKAY get the other countries to pay their share! Lisa you should resign. you are out of touch with reality you are the problem not the solution!
Murkowski is the most pathetic, disgusting, lying, evil, nasty and the list goes on RINO that I can honestly say I have ever known!! This state needs to get rid of all Democrats including Murkowski!!
I’m taking a poll. Who is a bigger embarrassment to Alaskans; Lisa Murkowski or Mary Peltola? Of course I’m using Peltola in the past tense. But she was still an embarrassment.
I have to say Lisa as she is still in a position of power to ruin Alaska.
This is no surprise. Lisa is a Democrat and will attack Trump at any opportunity. I imagine a skim somewhere which is why she is so against Doge and she no longer has her Uncle Joe giving her millions to pay people not to work.
Nancy and I are just finishing our new book:
“Far From Lisa.”
A book signing will be held soon in Wrangell.
I’ll be coming to Wrangell ……..alone.
When more of the iceberg is uncovered, I suspect that the Biden USAID will be assessed as the most partisan and corrupt government agency that has ever existed. A few stories are now coming out about what wonderful work the agency has done, but they are limited. My understanding is that a third of USAID activities were directed by the CIA and lots of them would never be authorized by Congress. Many of the remaining grants have gone to Leftist NGOs that consumed overhead and made subgrants to other Leftist NGOs for questionable purposes.
The Administration made the right call: Shut down USAID and start over from scratch. Defund the Left. Senator Murkowski is wrong on this one. It may not be the last time she is wrong.
Rino on a Merry go round,
Scary go round,
TDS go round,
Rino on a Merry go round
Censure bla bla bla.
Having worked in Asia for NGo’s for over 15 years, I saw the good and bad of USAID. There are cases where the funding is life saving as it related to HIV,TB and Malaria but I also saw the amount of waste and yes corruption that siphoned us generosity into local pockets;In many cases I just considered it the way of the world and realized that it had to happen to save those who had no other hope. But about 12-15 years ago, you could feel a change taking place as DEI was embraced and sexual/gender politics became more important than chasing lives. I am not surprised by the date and fraud that is being uncovered. for too long ago workers have conveniently turned a blind eye to it. after all attacking it meant attacking future revenue streams. I hope that in the future we can be more giving after we have reformed the rotten system.
Thank you for your first-hand experience. It is refreshing. We chase so many shadows these days.
So, Senator Murkowski….please focus on the money that went to anyone but the US Citizens that need that financial support!
Lisa, like every single democrat reminds me of Claud Reins corrupt Police Chief in Casablanca.
“I am shocked! Shocked I tell you that to learn there is illegal gambling in this establishment!”
“Here is your bribe , Sir”
(takes the wad of money)
“Thank you.”
Exactly Thomas, but I believe the correct quote is “Your winnings, sir”!
Lisa knows what is going on, does nothing about it and now pretends outrage not over the abuses, but the treatment of those, who perpetrated it.
It’s been about 5 years since I’ve seen it. However, the intent is still the same 😛
But the government won’t meaningfully help the people of Lahaina and North Carolina unless they pre-qualify for the measly $770 for each citizen. I’d include the people of California but I’m going to assume that many of them voted for the state government that pissed up the proverbial rope. Murkowski is lost. Maybe she can sponsor a child in poverty or send some of her ill-gotten gains to the international needy.
What an embarrassment she has become over the last 10 yrs. Thank her and her staff for RCV along with greasy lawyers.
Princess has become irrelevant. She is no better than her compatriot, Senator Al Green in importance.
She is be ignored for her persona, as her votes will continue to be contrary to the of Alaska Trump voters.
Discard her with disdain, let the voters seek a true conservative in the vain of Trump’s thinking/goals for America.
Cheers, Johnson-Ketchikan
My guess is she is compromised. She is one odd duck and her actions seem bizarre.
MRAK trolls apparently do not understand Article I of the US Constitution. SCOTUS has told Trump to release the USAID funding. The US Senate has declared that any cuts will be in next years budget
Frank,
SCOTUS said that reimbursements for work that has already been done needs to be paid.
Just the current awarded funds not future funds
With all the corruption being unmasked , I think it negates the law . It’s illegal activity .
Oh, Frank, you really need to read the WHOLE Constitution.
In other words, Lisa supports taking money from the poor and middle class American tax payers to give to the rich and ngo’s in poor countries. For a nominal kick back. Got it.
Most or our debt is not held by other countries. While our national debt is horrific, and the deficit continues to rise regardless of who is president which will lead to destruction of the US dollar, most of the actual US debt is held domestically by the Federal Reserve, mutual funds, bonds, etc. Less than a 1/3 is held outside the US, and I believe currently, China has sold off a lot of the debt they once held. The debt is destructive, and will ultimately lead to the destruction of the country (see Roman Empire), regardless of who is president. Saving 100 billion here, while spending 500 billion there, is actually not productive.
Investigate Murkowski
Memoirs should be titled
Nowhere’s near right
“ As Far From Right As Humanly Possible “
“How DARE you””cut off my kickbacks…. princess
Here is the deal, US taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for any foreign country or foreign programs. Our money needs to stay in the USA! If Murkowski wants to pay for it herself then go ahead and sign her paycheck over.
And here’s another thing, I don’t want a $5000 payback from the government. Either apply it to the debt or don’t make me pay taxes for the next 4 years.
Well, she certainly is FAR from HOME and I wish she’d stay there. It must be draining to constantly be “concerned” and “sick to the stomach” and it shows in her very unhappy face. What Alaskan taxpayer would approve the USAID programs she supports if told where the $$ is actually going? A real representative of Alaska would be thrilled with Pres. Trump’s support of a gas line and oil exploration and happy that taxpayers’ money will be spent where they live.
She has been in the swamp way to long and really needs to be dumped!
I’ve always wondered why the American tax payer has been forced to come to every inept country’s aid.
USAID is not about “Humanitarian assistance”.
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That is merely its cover.
It’s is now being exposed as nothing more than a giant money laundering operation.
And even if it were legit, it has no business splashing out money from U.S. taxpayers around the globe, when there is so much within our own borders that needs fixing.
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So what does it say about Lisa that she is so vociferously attacking the efforts to expose it for the giant scam that it is???
With the upcoming release of Princess Lisa’s money laundering book, one can speculate if she is delusional enough to think she has a chance for higher political office? Aside from that I do not see her donating her millions to those countries she claims to care about.
Our government shares identity with many symbols of the ages.
The Masonic checkerboard pattern of black and white representing a a duality of opposing forces at extreme ends of polarity. This pattern does not show the spectrum of light in between so therefore it has no tolerance for that which is not polarized.
There is a spectrum of people that are not represented in a polarized government, however there is the illusion that all people are represented as each polarity uses artificial identity politics to give you the feeling that the spectrum is represented, but in reality it does not.
Then the is the symbol of the Ouroboros. The snake in the shape of a circle eating its own tail. This symbol represents that which has been given life but has come to consume itself. The duality of the every moving forces of growth and entropy. We can see this expressed in how humanity creates government, becomes dependent on it. If government were to fail, the humanity that is dependent on it would be assumed to fail. That is why there is so much fear for government to not shut down.
However a government that has more people dependent on it than those who can support it is doomed to fail, along with the people under said government.
There are people who have not become co-dependent and will watch the system collapse from the outside. Those people will impose a new system or break free from systems altogether. A new governance shall form and the cycles continue again.
Life is a game. Either get good, or give up. The choice is yours.
Let me rephrase the headline here:
“Arrogant, entitled and stalwat pro-status-quo establishment defender Princess Lisa displays her Trump Derangement Syndrome for the 13,965th time.”
Just pray that releasing her memoirs means that she’s retiring!
How about this: let’s write a story about something that Trump does that Lisa DOESN’T attack? Now THAT would be news!
The $40,000,000,000.00 plus USAID budget is larger than what the federal government provides to 40 or 41 states. If the good Senator Murkowski cared for Alaska and Alaskans she would have ensured that the Federal Government wasn’t wasting money, instead she apparently supports giving US taxpayer funds to terrorists who want to destroy America and her allies and wasting money on fringe leftwing ideas in far off countries.
When Beavis’s and Butthead’s mom speaks, only democrats listen and afterwards they sing “we shall overcome”.
Haha, John Hancock!!! Beavis’s and Butthead’s mom, Lisa Muck-cowski…! When I see her, hear her, read about her, write or especially talk about her, vomit starts welling up!
The queen of nepotism, Lisa is, uh ohh, must run to toilet now!!!!!
With regard to the naming of her Memoir: rumor has it she wanted to name it Act Blue, but alas, since that was taken, after casting about for some time she settled on Far From Reality.
Just tell the Swamp Creature that more babies will be aborted if the budget is cut. It’s not true, but apparently that is all she’s interested in.
George Soros gets USAID money through his non profit. He provides funds for Lisa Murkowski and RCV. No wonder she’s concerned
I didn’t realize that spreading hate and misery around the world was “humanitarian”.
Well, since Vegetarian s eat vegetables, humanitarians eat Soylent Green!
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