'You Screwed It Up': Lindsey Graham Issues Scathing Takedown Of USAID, Blames Dems For Its Demise

At a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing before the Congressional recess, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) spoke about USAID.

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00:01So to my friends on the other side, I've been very supportive of this account.

00:06But USAID has collapsed, and if you're looking for somebody to blame, look in the mirror.

00:12Look at Samantha Powers.

00:18I've taken political fire, like most of us have, on our side for trying to be involved in the world.

00:25But here's what USAID did, AID did, that's led to what he's doing.

00:34$70,000 grant for DEI musical production in Ireland.

00:39$69,000 for dance classes in Wuhan, China.

00:43$47,000 grant for transgender opera in Colombia.

00:48You screwed it up.

00:50You took the goodwill of people over here, and you pissed it away because you turned over the keys to the kingdom to a bunch of crazy liberals.

01:02I can go $2.5 million for electric vehicles in Vietnam.

01:07$2 million for Moroccan pottery classes and promotion.

01:12$2 million for sex changes and LGBT activism in Guatemala.

01:16No more from you.

01:20None.

01:22The reason this thing is dead and never come back is because what you did.

01:26The Democratic Party did.