Trump on hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars: ‘Where’s the money being spent?’

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DOGE continues to find waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government even as Elon Musk continues to fight off attacks from Democrats over his efforts to eliminate the deficit and stop the country from going bankrupt.

Here’s what else American taxpayer dollars are going to:

-$25 Million to promote biodiversity conservation and promote livelihoods by developing socially valuable behavior in Columbia

-$40 Million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants

-$42 Million for Johns Hopkins to research and drive social and behavior change in Uganda

-$70 Million for center at Purdue to research university sourced evidence-based solution to developmental challenges

-$10 Million for male circumcisions in another country

-$439,000 for a local works consultant in Syria

-$7.4 Million to enhance efficient, inclusive, and accountable governance in northeast Syria

-$24 Million for green transportation and logistics program in Georgia

-$29 Million for an agricultural trade diversification program in Georgia

-$3.5 Million to help the next generations of Georgia to be civically engaged

-$4.5 Million to build societal resilience in the face of disinformation in Kazakhstan

-$1.3 Million for a supportive environment for LGBTQ people in north Macedonia

-$1.9 Million to strengthen human rights for LGBTQ people in the western Balkans

-$2 Million to strengthen trans-led groups delivering gender-affirming care in Guatemala

-$59 Million to enable grain and oilseed farmers with a special focus on female farmers in Ukraine

-$420,000 to pilot solar activity in Djibouti

-$3.3 Million for a program called Being LGBTQ in the Caribbean

-$18,739 for mechanical assistance for the LGBTQ+ Community in the 2021 Honduras Election

-$5 Million for a low emissions cities alliance to be carried out in China

-$11 Million for a cooperative agreement for US-China clean energy and climate partnership

-$750,000 for Princeton to collect information on racial diversity and equity in the Middle East and North Africa through surveying

-$9.9 Million to create jobs within the carpet and jewelry sector for women in Afghanistan

-$29.5 Million to implement sustainable economic growth, biodiversity and global climate change mitigation in Honduras

-$109.3 Million to Deloitte Consulting to support the Power Africa program in Nigeria

-$100.5 Million to improve the conditions of conflict-affected rural households in a sustainable manner in Columbia

-$66.1 Million for Iraqi access to justice reform

-$27.4 Million to support Southern Africa development community projects to adapt and respond to climate change