Trump
quietly slashes nearly $1 billion in federal cash for illegals and wokester
foreign aid grants
What
we voted for.
Monica
Showalter | September 28, 2026 www.americanthinker.com
Using
a rarely used recission power, President Trump quietly slashed nearly $1
billion in federal spending to subsidize illegal immigrants and to finance
overseas global warming, DEI, and trans foreign aid programs this
past Friday.
According
to the White
House:
President
Trump is committed to utilizing all possible tools to cut wasteful and harmful
government spending that does not benefit American citizens. Last year,
President Trump took the historic step of utilizing long-neglected Presidential
authorities provided to him under the Impoundment Control Act to deploy the
first “pocket rescission” in 50 years. This year, he is continuing his
commitment to the American taxpayer by utilizing a pocket rescission for
another nearly $1 billion of the most harmful government spending.
What were your tax dollars being wasted on?
Taxpayer-Funded HHS Services for Non-Citizens ($567
million):
These funds previously went to pro-illegal immigration programs and
Non-Governmental Organizations that provided services to refugees, asylees, and
other non-citizens and put unaccompanied children in harm’s way. Thanks to
President Trump’s successful border policies, the illegal alien invasion is
over and there are fewer people crossing our border than ever before. President
Trump’s border policies are not only making Americans safer – they are saving
Americans money. Accordingly, the excess funds in this account are being
rescinded.
...
and ...
Debt Relief to Foreign Countries that Fund Climate Change
Policies ($9 million): The Department of Treasury’s Tropical Forest and Coral Reef
Conservation Act (TFCCA) Program propagates America Last climate alarmism by
funding debt forgiveness to foreign countries in exchange for making climate
change-related domestic investments. This program would deny U.S. taxpayers
from being fully reimbursed for debt financing, and this wasteful spending
provides zero direct benefit to Americans.
...
and ...
Ed Funding
for Woke International Education ($70 million): These programs provide grants
and fellowships to support institutions bringing foreign students and faculty
to the United States to study or teach language, conduct research, and provide
professional and curriculum development. These programs have deviated from
their core mission and instead support wasteful and divisive projects,
including doctoral dissertations on queer and trans community building in
foreign countries.
...
and ...
HUD
Counseling Support for NGOs that Peddle DEI and Discriminate Based on Race ($56
million):
This HUD programs funds NGOs that ostensibly provide housing counseling, but
the program has not shown reduced delinquencies for counseled homebuyers and
instead focuses on grantees with DEI-centric discriminatory agendas.
The
list is long and I wish I could paste in more, so click
on the link to see just how many of these NGOs are getting deservedly
defunded -- La Raza (now UnidosUS), Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
Inc., Immigrants Rising, Housing Action Illinois, Massachusetts Immigrant
and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, Instituto del Progreso
Latino, and a really gross one, Endeavors,
Inc. as well as the DoJ's woke 'Community Relations Services' which
produces videos for law enforcement about how to kowtow to trans people on
their radar, presumably criminals.
Global
warming projects, free stuff for illegals, legal advise for legals about how to
defy the Trump administration and U.S. law, DEI promotion abroad, trans
promotion projects and minority-only aid programs here are all hitting the
chopping block.
Democrats,
of course, are howling and calling it illegal. It's not surprising. How many of
these NGOs take that federal aid money and re-route some of it into
Democrat pockets, as campaign kickbacks?
And
how many of these programs are vectors for fraud. We can already tell by many
of them on the list that they produce nothing of value for Americans. It's
likely that some produce nothing at all but cars, furs and vacations for
big-dollar-salaried NGO leaders.
And
with illegals forming caravans now and preparing to flood in again if Democrats
retake the House and Senate, defunding the NGOs seems now like a necessary move
to discourage illegal migrant surges. If there's no federal money waiting for
them, and NGOs have to pay for these migrants out of their own resources,
(which they won't) then far fewer illegal border crossers are going
to surge on in.
Why
should the federal government be funding that sort of thing, particularly with
a president who was elected by the people because he opposes it? He rightly
rescinded a lot of this stuff last year and this year, he's rescinded even
more.
It
should be better known, shouted from the rooftops if necessary, that this
is one of the success stories of the Trump administration. Trump not only cut
wasteful and cross-purposes federal funding (e.g., financing illegals to come
here, using law enforcement to arrest them, and financing NGOs to battle the
feds enforcing the law), he found a way to cut federal spending, given
that Congress is incapable of doing that and the federal debt and deficit are
dangerously high.
All
I can say is: This is what I voted for.