{"id":109274,"date":"2025-04-14T18:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=109274"},"modified":"2025-04-14T18:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:34:14","slug":"109274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=109274","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

How Democrats used NGOs to end-run voters: A \u2018parallel government.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m often darkly amused by common examples of inherently false nomenclature: \u201cJumbo shrimp.\u201d \u201cGovernment ethics.\u201d \u201cUnbiased news media.\u201d<\/p>\n

And one of our society\u2019s biggest falsehoods-in-a-name: \u201cNon-governmental organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Until recently these groups have been widely seen as international, idealized versions of domestic non-profits.<\/p>\n

We thought of them as do-good organizations set up by people who really care \u2014 about the environment, or poor people, or children, or freedom.<\/p>\n

We imagined they raise money, help the downtrodden, send out press releases and engage in other private activities to promote the causes they favor.<\/p>\n

Trump is deworming Washington \u2014 now to keep the parasites out for good
\nThey\u2019re not government entities, we thought \u2014 the very name says that \u2014 but a species of private charity whose good intentions deserve the benefit of any doubt.<\/p>\n

Perhaps some NGOs do operate in that way.<\/p>\n

But as we\u2019ve learned recently, partly as the result of Department of Government Efficiency digging, many \u201cnon-governmental\u201d entities are really just fronts for government activities that Americans would never stand for if Washington attempted them directly.<\/p>\n

For example, America\u2019s border crisis was funded in large part by Joe Biden\u2019s government, which sent large sums of money in the form of grants to various NGOs that helped train migrants on how to get to the United States \u2014 and how to claim asylum when they arrived.<\/p>\n

NGOs helped the illegal immigrants with expenses on their way, and then provided legal resources and more than $22 billion worth of assistance for them \u2014 including cash for cars, home loans and business start-ups \u2014 once they got in.<\/p>\n

This was US taxpayer money, laundered through \u201cindependent\u201d organizations that served to promote goals contrary to US law, but consistent with the policy preferences of the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

Under President Donald Trump, this funding halted \u2014 and, unsurprisingly, the flow of illegal immigrants did, too.<\/p>\n

Likewise, the weird wave of sudden global enthusiasm for \u201ctrans rights\u201d and novel ideas about gender turns out to have been largely funded by the US government through USAID grants.<\/p>\n

Federally funded NGOs spent millions on everything from a transgender opera in Colombia, to a campaign promoting \u201cbeing LGBTQ in the Caribbean,\u201d to an LGBTQ community center in Bratislava, Slovakia.<\/p>\n

As data expert Jennica Pounds (\u201cDataRepublican\u201d on X) put it, \u201cOver the last few months, we\u2019ve come to a realization that should have landed much harder: NGOs weren\u2019t just adjacent to government.\u201d<\/p>\n

They were tools of government, \u201cthe parallel government,\u201d Pounds wrote, specifically doing things that Washington bureaucrats knew full well they couldn\u2019t easily do themselves.<\/p>\n

The big surprise is that we\u2019re so surprised this has been going on.<\/p>\n

The lack of accountability also made NGOs a perfect conduit for funneling money to Washington insiders.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a profitable cycle: Politicians fund agencies; agencies make grants to NGOs; NGOs hire politicians\u2019 wives and offspring \u2014 and sometimes the politicians themselves, once they\u2019ve left office.<\/p>\n

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), for example, voted to award $14.2 million to Ocean Conservancy since 2008, Fox News reported \u2014 and the NGO, in turn, paid his wife Sandra Whitehouse and her firm $2.7 million for consulting work.<\/p>\n

No wonder the Washington establishment went crazy when Trump and DOGE started cutting off such funds.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And it was striking to see how many NGOs folded their tents almost immediately when Trump shut down USAID\u2019s sprawling and largely unmonitored grant-making activities.<\/p>\n

An NGO that can\u2019t function without government money is anything but \u201cnon-governmental.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is part of a global pattern.<\/p>\n

Most developed countries are, at least nominally, democracies \u2014 but pretty much all of them have evolved various techniques for ensuring that the voters know as little as possible about, and have as little influence as possible on, what\u2019s being done with their money.<\/p>\n

The bureaucracy \u2014 described as far back as the 1930s as a \u201cheadless fourth branch of government\u201d subject to no real political control \u2014 makes most of the decisions.<\/p>\n

Partly as the result of Department of Government Efficiency digging, we\u2019ve learnd that many NGOs are really just fronts for government activities that Americans would never stand for if Washington attempted them directly.<\/p>\n

Taxpayers\u2019 money is doled out via vast omnibus bills that make scrutiny, much less actual control, of what is being spent nearly impossible.<\/p>\n

And then, to make it even more opaque, much of the money flows to NGOs and domestic nonprofits that spend it in obscure and often untraceable ways, so voters have no way of knowing, or ever objecting to, what is happening with their cash.<\/p>\n

DOGE\u2019s ongoing federal spending probe has made all this apparent.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s going to take political will to do something about it.<\/p>\n

Drastic cuts to federal spending in general is a first step: Republicans now hammering out a budget bill in Congress must hold firm on that promise.<\/p>\n

But they must also move to drastically limit \u2014 or even outright ban \u2014 federal grants to private organizations, and at the very least to require rigorous audits of every grant that\u2019s made.<\/p>\n

Because now that we know how our money has been misspent, it can\u2019t be business as usual any longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How Democrats used NGOs to end-run voters: A \u2018parallel government.\u2019 I\u2019m often darkly amused by common examples of inherently false nomenclature: \u201cJumbo shrimp.\u201d \u201cGovernment ethics.\u201d \u201cUnbiased news media.\u201d And one of our society\u2019s biggest falsehoods-in-a-name: \u201cNon-governmental organizations.\u201d Until recently these groups have been widely seen as international, idealized versions of domestic non-profits. We thought of … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,64,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-deceit","category-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109275,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109274\/revisions\/109275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}