DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Federal agencies tasked with giving out foreign aid have allocated more than $27 million for activist groups that also support legal defense efforts for leftist protesters in the U.S.
The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development awarded the funds to the left-wing Tides Foundation and Tides Center across several presidencies, federal spending records show. Conservative organizations and politicians are now scrutinizing how the agencies spend taxpayer money after President Donald Trump announced a review of foreign aid projects and shut down USAID.
“If a conservative donor-advised fund like DonorsTrust was raking in million-dollar grants from a government department the Left and the media would be hysterical with outrage,” Parker Thayer, investigative researcher at Capital Research Center, told the Daily Caller…
