Source: European Parliament
Priority question for written answer P-001374/2025/rev.1
to the Commission
Rule 144
Branko Grims (PPE)
Shocking information from the new US administration shows that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funds were clearly misused to promote ‘woke’ ideology (cultural Marxism) during the last presidential term. USAID has paid money to more than 6 000 journalists (media) and hundreds of NGOs, and many of them were in the EU.
The Commission emphasises the need to fight corruption and foreign interference in elections. To our knowledge, no other interference in EU elections has been as systematic and widespread as the imposition of a left-wing agenda through USAID. While Joe Biden was in office, the leftists apparently turned USAID into a money laundering operation for the dissemination of ‘woke’ propaganda via the far-left media and NGOs corrupted by this money. For this reason, an independent investigation should be carried out into this corrupt money and its impact on EU policies and EU elections.
I am asking the Commission when it will open an investigation into who in the EU received USAID funds during the last presidential term, for what purpose, how they were spent, what the impact of said funds was on EU policy-making and on the functioning of EU institutions, and what the impact of this blatantly corrupt money was on elections in the EU and in EU Member States. When and how will the findings of this investigation be made public?
Submitted: 2.4.2025