GOP Representative Mocks Closing Of Agency In Charge Of Distributing Humanitarian Aid Worldwide
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Rep. Mike Collins just added to his growing list of bad social media posts.
Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) mocked the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development in a social media post on Tuesday, adding to his growing list of harmful social media posts.
“I got laid off at USAID today,” Collins wrote. “I was in charge of making the Taliban trans. Was really starting to make headway too.”
Collins’ office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the social media post seems to be referring to the idea that U.S. aid to Afghanistan helps fund the Taliban. The U.S. government has said that there are safeguards in place to make sure the aid goes to Afghan people and not the Taliban, but in 2023, John Sopko, a special inspector general for Afghan reconstruction, said at a House Oversight Committee hearing that there was a chance U.S. taxpayers had helped fund the Taliban and other Afghan terror groups.
Collins’ remark about “making the Taliban trans” seems to come from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s complaint that USAID paid for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. She falsely claimed that the agency had paid for a “transgender opera” in Colombia as one example.
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