President Donald Trump's 90-day foreign aid freeze has dramatically impacted the budget of BBC Media Action, a standalone charity that uses media to promote global democracy along with the BBC's global services. I did.
The revenue losses for BBC Media Action are part of a broader freeze in Trump's US Agency for International Development (USAID) aid. Reduces $268 million According to the 2025 Foreign Aid Budget reported by the Borderless Reporter (RWB), from outlets in more than 30 countries from the media.
USAID's 2023 Fact Sheet, Photo offline For the Hold, the agency supported 6,200 journalists, 707 news outlets, 279 media sector civil society organizations, and Columbia Journalism Review It has been reported.
“USAID is paying media organizations to publish propaganda,” says Elon Musk Posted X.
BBC Media Action, which claims to support “local media around the world” and provide “reliable information,” announced on Thursday that it lost US taxpayer dollars, which reached 8% of its revenues between 2023 and 2024. I did.
“We are doing everything we can to minimize the impact on our partners and those we serve.” I said In a statement. “As the BBC's international charity, we are completely separate from the BBC news and are completely dependent on donors and supporters to do our work.”
People affected by the cut claim to be journalists who oppose foreign propaganda, but many Make a claim USAID, a shell organization for CIA messaging, reportedly spent taxpayer money that promoted the left-wing narrative.
“USAID, like the National Fund for Democracy, is well documented CIA front designed to manipulate the internal politics of other countries for the benefit of DC Elites and anyone else in the United States. Both agencies are creating destruction and cannot die anytime soon.” I said X.
J. Michael Waller, author of “Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI became Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains,” I said That “USAID is not the forefront of the CIA. It's worse than that.”
Related: White House: Working to cancel $8 million subscription with a subscription from USAID to Politico
“USAID has become a secret operational agency of its own, unexplained,” he said. “USAID has carried out a secret OPS without the discovery of the president, as required by law.”
Wendell Hussebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former RNC Warroom analyst. He is the author of the politics of slavery morality. Follow Wendell “x” @wendellhusebø or on The true society @wendellhusebo.
