Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, called the U.S. Agency for International Development “a rogue bureaucracy” after she and her staff independently uncovered partisan and wasteful spending by the agency.
President Donald Trump’s advisory Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, has been subject to Democrat anger after exposing alleged fraud, corruption and waste at various agencies, including USAID.
Ernst, Senate DOGE caucus chair, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday to detail how USAID had misled, lied, and deceived Americans by blocking her extensive efforts to get answers into how tax dollars were spent at the agency.
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