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Trump Administration Blasted for Ending USAID’s $10 Million Toilet Project in Madagascar
Among the many wasteful foreign aid programs the Trump administration eliminated from the U.S. government’s generously funded global health strategy is a $10 million venture to provide an African nation with toilets after a smaller American-funded effort to help villagers in the country build toilets with local materials failed. The multi-million-dollar remedy, part of Obama’s mission to end extreme poverty, focused on sanitation by installing special toilets, known as MVP1, in the east African island of Madagascar. Over the weekend a mainstream newspaper published a lengthy hit piece chastising the Trump administration for eliminating the costly African toilet endeavor funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the bloated State Department offshoot that annually disbursed tens of billions of dollars with little oversight or accountability before the president dismantled it. Now, “only the rich can afford a toilet,” in Madagascar the recently published newspaper story declares as if that should be a concern for American taxpayers.
It marks the latest of extensive mainstream media coverage criticizing Trump’s razing of USAID—and questionable programs like the African toilets it bankrolled—while conveniently failing to report the pervasive fraud, waste and corruption that long gripped the foreign aid agency. Judicial Watch has exposed the crisis for years, reporting on a multitude of reckless USAID projects, including Kamala Harris’ failed multi-billion-dollar effort to curb “irregular migration” from three targeted countries known as the northern triangle—El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—and millions of dollars to promote leftwing billionaire George Soros’ radical globalist agenda in Latin America as well as a fruitless Clinton-backed port and power plant in Haiti. Judicial Watch has also taken legal action to uncover details about some of the agency’s problematic secret operations. In 2024 we sued USAID for records involving $27 million in Gaza grants that went to “Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees.” The Biden administration claimed the recipients could not be disclosed because the agency’s workers could be put at risk by Israel. Earlier this year Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against USAID for failing to provide records about fraud and abuse tied to American aid money sent to Ukraine.
More here: https://www.judicialwatch.org/usaid-10m-toilet-project-madagascar/
Most of the money probably funded cushy lifestyles in some NGO while building 10 outhouses in Madagascar.
Living a life of constant agitation caused by your own warped fantasies must be exhausting. 
