Blistering moment Karoline Leavitt rips absurd USAID spending to shreds in front of stunned reporters [Video]

18:42 EST 03 Feb 2025, updated 11:20 EST 04 Feb 2025

Karoline Leavitt gave a blistering account of USAID’s absurd spending after Elon Musk moved to shut down the wasteful government foreign aid agency.

Speaking outside the White House, Donald Trump‘s press secretary held up a sheet of paper giving details of the astonishing ways in which taxpayers’ money had been doled out.

It was an apparent reference to Daily Mail’s lead story yesterday afternoon which first outlined the shocking expenditures related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), on which the President has ordered a crackdown. 

Reading from the sheet, Leavitt went through it line by line.

She said: ‘$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.’

Hammering home the point, Leavitt, 27, who has already become a star of Trump’s administration, said: …