DataRepublican exposes 'uniparty' government thriving beyond taxpayer reach in first-ever interview with Steve Deace



Last week, during her first-ever public interview, DataRepublican spoke with Steve Deace on BlazeTV's "Steve Deace Show."

DataRepublican, a database kernel engineer who develops machine learning algorithms, has leveraged her platform on X to expose the federal government's egregious and corrupt spending practices.

'The system exists outside of our control, and we need to get it back.'

"I wanted to make sure we did this interview, first and foremost, just to say, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' What you have done with this work the last few weeks has been nothing short of extraordinary," Deace told DataRepublican.

DataRepublican, who is deaf and nonverbal, responded through her translator, explaining that she decided to release the awards database, USASpending.gov, on her own website after finding that it was "really, really hard to search." She aimed to make it significantly easier for people to navigate and gain a clearer picture of federal government spending.

"Now my tool has become very popular and went absolutely viral," DataRepublican added.

She described the network of nongovernmental organizations and federal grants as "incredibly complex," noting that analyzing the depth of potential waste, fraud, and abuse would likely be impossible without artificial intelligence tools.

"It's really a soft power structure that was built around these eight core NGOs with the NED — that's the National Endowment for Democracy," DataRepublican continued. "That's really at the center. And it's an organization that President [Donald] Trump just defunded."

She explained that the NED and its partnership with the NGOs were initially created to unite Republicans and Democrats in combatting communism. However, it never disbanded after the Soviet Union's collapse. Instead, the mission was "rebranded" as "defenders of democracy."

"They literally became a government all to themselves," DataRepublican stated.

The "parallel government" operates beyond taxpayer control, she added.

"What was the most just weird and disturbing thing for me was finding the existence of what I'm calling a true uniparty. The uniparty is real," she continued.

DataRepublican explained that the NED "accidentally created a system where both parties operate together under the same umbrella."

"But at the same time, they're pretending to be opponents," she said.

She argued that most Americans do not feel they are receiving the benefits they pay for as taxpayers, suggesting that the funds must be going elsewhere.

"Where is the money going? It's not just vanishing into thin air. One person, somebody, is benefitting from this. And when you see that these politicians in Congress are designed to have these moderate salaries and then they leave as millionaires, you have to ask, 'Huh, is that really a coincidence?'" she continued.

Deace asked DataRepublican whether any so-called Christian churches are "directly involved in the grift pyramid."

She explained that "many churches" have accepted funding from the United States Agency for International Development, noting that restrictions prevent them from using the funds for evangelism.

"Christianity is built specifically on one great commission, and Jesus was very clear about that — about spreading the gospel. And it's hard to imagine Him accepting funding that required Jesus to stay silent about faith," she continued.

DataRepublican further explained that because churches are not required to file a Form 990, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax, they have less financial transparency.

"That alone might make church government funding an attractive option for more cynical players, you know, bad actors who may not be motivated by religious beliefs," DataRepublican said. "I personally would be very skeptical of any Christian church which accepts USAID money or any federal funding."

She declared, "We are in the middle of the second American Revolution. I am not joking. The American public needs to engage and recognize that this is not about partisanship."

"The system exists outside of our control, and we need to get it back," DataRepublican concluded.

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Unraveling the deep state: Here are the most egregious things USAID was doing with your money



Over the past several decades, billions of hard-earned American taxpayer dollars have been funneled into left-wing initiatives around the globe through the United States Agency for International Development.

Established in 1961, the agency was intended to administer foreign aid and assistance to developing nations, but it has since apparently become an unscrutinized black hole of waste, fraud, and abuse.

'Advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces.'

With a mandate from American voters nationwide, President Donald Trump and his administration have set their sights on rooting out the federal government's wasteful spending.

The administration's new Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, began exposing in December that USAID has used taxpayer funds to support anti-American, far-left causes.

While USAID's spending scandal is just beginning to unfold, here's a list of some of the alleged questionable initiatives funded through the agency.

DEI

  • $45 million to diversity, equity, and inclusion scholarships in Burma. The DOGE reported that seven "DEI-related" USAID contracts valued at $375 million were canceled.
  • $1.5 million "to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities, by promoting economic empowerment of and opportunity for LGBTQI+ people." The program aimed to "expand opportunities" and "reduce[] workplace discrimination."
  • $1.5 million to "art for inclusion of people with disabilities."
  • $19 million for two separate "inclusion" programs in Vietnam.
  • $1.3 million to "provide Arab and Jewish [Israeli] residents … with a collaborative platform, photography skills." The program offered participants "mixed identity photography workshops."

LGBT

  • $2 million for "activity to strengthen trans-led organizations to deliver gender-affirming health care" in Guatemala.
  • $37.7 million to study HIV among "sex workers (SWS), their clients, and transgender (TG) people" in South Africa.
  • $7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists about "gender-sensitive reporting."
  • $1.1 million to "empower the LGBTI community" and "protect them from violence and discrimination" in Armenia.
  • $1.5 million to "upscale LGBT rights advocacy" in Jamaica.

Climate hysteria

  • $520 million for consultant-driven environmental, social, and governance investments in Africa, according to the DOGE.
  • $2.5 million to build electric vehicle charging stations and other related infrastructure in Vietnam. Through the USAID Vietnam Urban Energy Security project, the agency has "provide[d] funding and technical assistance for innovative solutions that address urban energy and environment issues."
  • $1 million to assist disabled people in Tajikistan to become "climate leaders."
  • $24 million for a "green transportation and logistics program" in Georgia.

Cultural & educational propaganda

  • $20 million on "Ahlan Simsim," a new "Sesame Street" show in Iraq. According to a now-archived version of USAID's website, the children's series was "designed to promote inclusion, mutual respect, and understanding across ethnic, religious, and sectarian groups."
  • $6 million for tourism in Egypt, according to the White House. Corporate media outlets were quick to "fact-check" a press release linked by the Trump administration, arguing that it did not mention that the funds would be used for tourism purposes. However, USAID has invested $100 million in taxpayer dollars that have either directly or indirectly boosted Egypt's tourism, including an $8.6 million campaign in 2022.
  • $1.2 million to construct a "state-of-the-art 440 seat auditorium" for the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C.
  • $31.5 million on "counseling, organizational resilience, wellness, and work-life support" for USAID employees, Fox News reported.
  • $29 million to "improve the skills of young and female Egyptians in the manufacturing and service sectors," Fox News reported.
  • $4.5 million to "advance integrity and accountability in the information space, and build societal resilience in the face of disinformation" in Kazakhstan.
  • $6 million to "transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles."

Foreign policy & security risks

  • $160 million to update payment systems in Afghanistan.
  • $1 million to a Hamas-linked charity in Gaza.
  • $15 million for condoms and oral contraceptives in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
  • $4.67 million to EcoHealth Alliance, a research organization that funded the Wuhan lab linked to the COVID-19 virus.
  • $330 million to fund alternative development projects that failed to "deter farmers and [drug] traffickers from cultivating" poppy plants, thereby "inadvertently" fueling heroin production and trafficking in Afghanistan.

The federal government gave "hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria," according to a November report from the Washington Times.

Based on reporting from the Washington Examiner, the White House stated that the government provided "hundreds of thousands of dollars for a nonprofit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even after an inspector general launched an investigation." It also allegedly funded "print[ing] 'personalized' contraceptive birth control devices in developing countries."

Further, USAID awarded $1.2 billion to undisclosed recipients, according to DOGE.

To provide context for USAID's spending, in fiscal year 2023, the agency managed a roughly $43.8 billion budget.

Outside USAID, the federal government also made questionable funding decisions through the State Department, providing $70,000 for a DEI musical in Ireland, $35,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, and $22,231 on a "USAID Social Media Influencers Campaign."

While the USAID-funded initiatives listed above are alarming, they represent only a small fraction of the agency's total spending. We will continue to update this tracker as more shocking revelations emerge.

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Ex-USAID director confirms 'culture of corruption' within agency



Mark Moyar, a former director of the United States Agency for International Development, declared that the government agency has a "culture of corruption" that needs to be rooted out.

During a Wednesday interview with Fox News' Jesse Watters, Moyar described his experiences at the scandal-plagued USAID.

'Very effective at rebranding things.'

Over the past week, President Donald Trump's administration, especially Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, has exposed some of the agency's wasteful spending. The administration is now pushing for a complete reorganization to prevent any more taxpayer funds from going toward anti-American initiatives.

Moyar, who began working at USAID in February 2018, explained to Watters that he was fired from his position after he tried to expose corruption within the agency.

He explained that during his orientation with USAID, he was asked to participate in a "privilege walk," a group exercise designed to visually demonstrate how various forms of privilege or disadvantage impact the life outcomes of individuals from different backgrounds.

Each participant begins at the same starting line. As a series of statements are read aloud, participants step forward when the statement positively applies to their lives, indicating some form of privilege, or step backward when it negatively applies, indicating a disadvantage.

Moyar stated that employees were assigned an alternative identity for the orientation exercise, and he was selected to be "a Scandinavian woman."

"They read lines like, 'I get discriminated against because of government services,' or, 'People don't like how I look,'" he told Watters. "I ended near the front. The indigenous woman with unwanted pregnancy and the male prostitute were at the other end. And then we talked about our privileges."

Moyar explained that USAID is "very effective at rebranding things," referring to the agency's wasteful spending habits.

As an example, Moyar stated that the agency started a feminist women's book club under the Obama administration, and it has since been re-designated as a counterterror program "because feminist women are key fighters in the battle against terrorism."

During his time with USAID, Moyar said he tried to report one of his subordinates for a "criminal conflict of interest." When he did so, he was informed that most employees were unwilling to report corruption within the agency.

"They didn't tell me why," Moyar told Watters. "I later figured out it's because you get in a lot of trouble."

"I was accused of publishing classified information," he continued. "They ultimately used that to fire me. Now, the people who were engaged in the corruption managed to hold on to their jobs."

He called the agency's accusations "bogus," stating that he has been fighting its claims in court for several years.

"There's a culture of corruption that says, 'If you are going to criticize anything corrupt, we are going to come after you,'" Moyar added.

He stated that USAID has historically refused to turn over information to the courts or Congress.

Moyar told Watters that the DOGE is doing a "good job" uncovering wasteful spending. However, he contended that exposing the depth of the agency's issues would require forensic accountants.

"It's probably going to take a long time because these bureaucrats have devised very crafty ways to hide money," Moyar said.

He noted that Trump's second-term administration has already been more diligent and efficient about cleaning out the agency than during Trump's first four years in the White House.

Moyar believes Trump is now using a more "heavy-handed approach" with USAID because bureaucrats managed to hide most of the wasteful spending through his first term.

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Politico's $30 million+ government subscriptions scandal exposes taxpayer dollars flowing into corporate media



On Wednesday, Politico and other legacy media outlets tried to debunk claims that the newsrooms received millions of dollars from the federal government.

The catalyst for these accusations stemmed from President Donald Trump's administration and the Department of Government Efficiency seeking to reorganize the United States Agency for International Development.

'Could be the biggest scandal of them all, perhaps the biggest in history!'

With much attention focused on the troubled government agency in recent days, the Trump administration highlighted some of its questionable funding decisions. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt called it a long list of "crap" and "waste and abuse."

During a press briefing earlier this week, Leavitt listed some of the initiatives funded by the federal government that the DOGE discovered.

"These are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on," Leavitt stated.

She noted that the federal government spent "$1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces, $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru."

The list of the federal government's controversial expenses rattled off by the press secretary only scratched the surface.

On Wednesday, it was revealed that USAID had also paid Politico subscription fees. A search on USASpending.gov confirmed that all federal government agencies — not just USAID — had shelled out more than $8 million over the past year to the media outlet.

This prompted some to inaccurately report that USAID alone had paid millions of dollars in Politico Pro subscription fees. The agency made only two payments to the news outlet: $20,000 in 2023 and $24,000 in 2024.

During a Wednesday press conference, Leavitt told reporters, "Upon coming out here to the briefing room, I was made aware of the funding from USAID to media outlets, including Politico."

"I can confirm that more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayers' dime will no longer be happening," she continued. "The DOGE team is working on canceling those payments now."

Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, "Looks like billions of dollars have been [stolen] at USAID, and other agencies, much of it going to the fake news media as a 'payoff' for creating good stories about the Democrats."

The president noted that this "could be the biggest scandal of them all, perhaps the biggest in history!"

With the mix-up between exclusively USAID funding versus all federal agency funding, left-leaning corporate media outlets seized the opportunity to call the $8 million given to Politico a "false right-wing conspiracy theory."

Lead Stories published a "fact-check" article titled "USAID Did NOT Spend Over $8 Million On Politico, LLC." Buried in the piece, the outlet admitted that while USAID had not paid Politico over $8 million, other federal government agencies had.

CNN slammed Leavitt for "elevat[ing] a "bogus claim" and "right-wing conspiracy theory." The media outlet similarly missed the mark about taxpayer dollars going to the corporate newsroom, reporting that the funds did not come from USAID but "all federal agencies combined."

Revealing that USAID paid for Politico's subscription fees brought to light a far more significant issue: Numerous federal agencies are using millions of taxpayer dollars annually to essentially subsidize the same corporate media outlets that are supposed to report on and hold them accountable.

In 2021, the New York Times reported that Politico's annual revenue was roughly $200 million.

According to USASpending.gov, the federal government paid Politico more than $34 million from fiscal year 2016 through 2025. Politico's affiliate, Capitol News Company LLC, received another $4.5 million from fiscal year 2011 through 2023.

However, Politico is not unique in this regard. From fiscal year 2009 through 2025, the Associated Press received $37.5 million from the federal government.

The Washington Post reported that the government has also used taxpayer funds to pay for subscriptions to its outlet. Yet it noted that Politico's subscription fees "were significantly higher than many of its peers."

Blaze News senior politics editor Christopher Bedford stated, "This is just a real look into how the swamp operates. And all of it, of course, can be explained: 'These are for subscription models; this is just people paying to subscribe.' But at the end of the day, if you're, for over five years, taking almost $35 million in subscriptions from the federal government, from the taxpayer, then you're largely funded. Their 200-person news team … is funded in large part by the taxpayer."

Politico did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

Politico CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and editor in chief John Harris released a staff memo on Wednesday addressing the claims.

"As surely many of you saw today, there was a spirited discussion at the White House and among officials connected to the Department of Government Efficiency on the subject of government subscriptions for journalism products, at POLITICO and other news organizations," the joint statement read.

"This is a fine conversation to have, and we welcome it. The value of POLITICO subscriptions is validated daily in the marketplace. Some parts of today's conversation, however, were confusing and left some people with false understandings. For this reason, we want you to hear from us on several points," it continued.

They stated that Politico "has never been a beneficiary of government programs or subsidies — not one cent, ever, in 18 years" and that its Politico Pro "provides both private and public sector clients with granular, fact-based reporting, real-time intelligence, and tracking tools across key policy areas."

The AP issued a statement about the outlet receiving funds from the federal government, noting that it has "long been an AP customer — through both Democratic and Republican administrations."

"It licenses AP's nonpartisan journalism, just like thousands of news outlets and customers around the world," the AP stated. "It's quite common for governments to have contracts with news organizations for their content."

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Dem senator places 'blanket hold' on Trump's State Department nominees to protest USAID reorganization



Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said he will place a "blanket hold" on President Donald Trump's State Department nominees to slow-walk their confirmations.

On Monday, Schatz explained that he is stalling the president's nominations to protest Trump's and Elon Musk's desire to dissolve the United States Agency for International Development.

'I will do maximal delays until this is resolved.'

Musk's Department of Government Efficiency discovered wasteful, anti-American spending by USAID.

"As we dug into USAID, it became apparent that what we have here is not an apple with a worm in it, but we have, actually, just a ball of worms," Musk said. "It's hopeless. USAID is a ball of worms. There is no apple. And when there is no apple, you just gotta basically get rid of the whole thing."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Monday that he is the acting director of USAID.

"One of the most common complaints you will get if you go to embassies around the world from State Department officials and ambassadors and the like is USAID is not only not cooperative — they undermine the work that we're doing in that country, they are supporting programs that upset the host government for whom we're trying to work with on a broader scale, and so forth," Rubio stated.

On Monday, workers were locked out of the USAID building as the White House prepares a reorganization of the agency's activities.

Democrats gathered outside the building to protest, claiming the action was "illegal."

Schatz stated that he plans to retaliate against the Trump administration's decision by opposing senators' requests for "unanimous consent" to expedite the confirmation process of presidential nominees.

"I will vote no. I will do maximal delays until this is resolved," he told the Wall Street Journal. "You cannot wave a wand and eliminate a department established by federal law, so it will be reversed by a court."

Schatz claimed that dissolving USAID would be "illegal" and make the country "less safe."

"Donald Trump and Elon Musk can't just wish it away with a stroke of a pen — they need to pass a law," he said. "Until and unless this brazenly authoritarian action is reversed and USAID is functional again, I will be placing a blanket hold on all of the Trump administration's State Department nominees."

"This is self-inflicted chaos of epic proportions that will have dangerous consequences all around the world," Schatz claimed.

Schatz's hold will force Republican lawmakers to waste floor time to confirm Trump's nominees instead of fast-tracking them for a vote. While Democrats do not have enough votes on their own to block Trump's picks, they can drag out the process.

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'Just a ball of worms': Musk says Trump ready to shut down 'criminal organization' USAID



President Donald Trump, convinced that the U.S. "foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values," is taking an axe to the status quo — and it appears that the U.S. Agency for International Development might be next on the chopping block.

Elon Musk told Republican Sens. Mike Lee (Utah) and Joni Ernst (Iowa) and Vivek Ramaswamy in an X Spaces conversation early Monday that the president has agreed that USAID, the pre-eminent international humanitarian and development arm of the federal government, cannot be fixed with "minor housecleaning" and must be "shut down."

"As we dug into USAID, it became apparent that what we have here is not an apple with a worm in it, but we have, actually, just a ball of worms," said Musk. "It's hopeless. USAID is a ball of worms. There is no apple. And when there is no apple, you just gotta basically get rid of the whole thing."

Musk noted further that Trump "agreed we should shut it down."

The stated mission of USAID, which was established in 1961 to implement the Foreign Assistance Act, is to "partner to end extreme poverty and promote resilient, democratic societies while advancing [American] security and prosperity."

According to the Congressional Research Service, in fiscal year 2023 — the most recent year for which complete data is available — the agency managed over $40 billion in combined appropriations and employed over 10,000 individuals, two-thirds of whom worked overseas, not including institutional support contractors.

'USAID [is] run by radical lunatics, and we're getting them out.'

In 2023, USAID was dishing out American assistance in roughly 130 countries, the biggest beneficiaries of which were, in descending order, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Jordan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Yemen, Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, Nigeria, South Sudan, and Syria — now run by a terrorist who used to lead the Al-Nusrah Front and benefited from the CIA's operation Timber Sycamore.

USAID has blown American money abroad in a number of controversial and damaging ways.

For instance, the agency reportedly poured $38 million into an EcoHealth Alliance project titled "Predict-2" between October 2014 and September 2019. The subcontractor listed on the grant was Ben Hu, the Wuhan Institute of Virology's lead on gain-of-function research on SARS-like coronaviruses and among the "patients zero" — one of the three lab researchers first infected with COVID-19 in November 2019.

A USAID spokesman told the Wall Street Journal that the funding for research at the likely origin of the deadly COVID-19 virus "was part of the agency’s mission to identify and contain pandemic threats. The project provided about $815,000 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and $39,000 to Wuhan University."

Blaze News previously reported that USAID also bankrolled the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a giant international journalism organization that had a hand in the first impeachment of Trump and in the targeting of perceived adversaries of the American political establishment. The OCCRP lists among its supporters USAID, along with George Soros' Open Society Foundations and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, noted over the weekend that while "marketed as support for development, democracy, and human rights, the majority of [USAID] funds are funneled into opposition groups, NGOs with political agendas, and destabilizing movements."

"At best, maybe 10% of the money reaches real projects that help people in need (there are such cases), but the rest is used to fuel dissent, finance protests, and undermine administrations that refuse to align with the globalist agenda," added Bukele.

Samantha Power, a former Obama adviser who served as USAID administrator from 2021 until 2025, once bragged that USAID was America's "soft power arsenal" and one of its "better-kept secrets."

Under Power, USAID meddled in the political affairs of various nations, including Ethiopia, Bolivia, and Ukraine. USAID has also awarded grants to various groups that work to influence domestic politics, such as the Tides Center, which is a sister organization to the leftist grant-making Tides Foundation.

Prior to the X Spaces discussion, Trump told reporters that USAID has "been run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and we're getting them out. USAID [is] run by radical lunatics, and we're getting them out, and then we'll make a decision."

On his first day in office, Trump ordered a 90-day pause in foreign aid, affording his administration an opportunity to review relevant programs "for programmatic efficiency and consistency with United States foreign policy."

After the order went into effect last week, the administration fired or placed on furlough thousands of USAID employees and contractors. At least 56 senior career staffers who allegedly tried to get around Trump's foreign aid freeze, approving new contracts, were similarly placed on administrative leave.

NBC News reported that on Saturday evening, USAID director of security John Voorhees and his deputy, Brian McGill, tried to prevent members of the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing agency systems. DOGE personnel, allegedly keen to access USAID security systems and personnel files, were reportedly able ultimately to access the headquarters, and the two security officials were placed on leave.

Katie Miller, a member of the DOGE, noted Sunday, "No classified material was accessed without proper security clearances."

Musk stated early Monday that USAID, the website for which has gone dark, "is a criminal organization."

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