NGO Middlemen Being Cut Out From US Aid Programs
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Nongovernmental organizations (NGO’s) are about to lose a great deal of federal government money. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that tax dollars meant for foreign aid have instead been heavily used to prop up NGOs. And many NGOs have gotten involved in programs that facilitate mass migration, in what’s now being referred to as the “refugee industrial complex.”
We’ll discuss this topic and others in this episode of “Crossroads.”
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| 0:00.0 | The non-governmental organizations that were the middlemen of the mass migration movement into the |
| 0:05.0 | U.S. are about to lose a huge chunk of money from the federal government. Meanwhile, the problem of |
| 0:10.2 | mass fraud among the Somali community in Minnesota is getting more exposure, and there are now |
| 0:14.3 | growing accusations against local officials allegedly complicit in this. And on another topic, President Donald Trump has new plans for Argentina, |
| 0:24.2 | and I'd say this is about restoring the Monroe Doctrine. |
| 0:27.6 | I'll be talking about these topics and a lot more today. |
| 0:30.8 | I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter, Joshua Phillip, |
| 0:33.6 | and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:42.3 | Thank you. and you're listening to Crossroads. Non-governmental organizations are about to lose a whole lot of money from the federal |
| 0:47.3 | government. Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained the tax dollars meant for foreign aid, |
| 0:53.2 | like USAID and a lot of other programs. |
| 0:57.0 | Basically, instead of going to like the countries or whatever else, they're instead being used |
| 1:03.0 | to basically prop up NGOs. The NGOs just eat up a whole bunch of money and give very little |
| 1:08.6 | at the end of the whole train. And many of the NGOs have gotten involved in various programs, including the facilitation |
| 1:14.4 | of mass illegal immigration right here in the United States. |
| 1:18.8 | This is Rubio explaining the new U.S. policy on foreign aid during a signing on December 4th. |
| 1:23.6 | The United States has spent billions of dollars over the years in helping with health |
| 1:27.3 | strategies all across the world. |
| 1:29.6 | What we learned over time, and especially after coming here, is that oftentimes, and I'm oversimplifying it, but this is an accurate description. |
| 1:36.1 | What would happen is we would go to a country and say, we're going to help you with their health care needs. |
| 1:40.5 | Then we would drive over to western, northern Virginia somewhere, find an NGO, one of these organizations, give them all the money, tell them, go to this country and do their health care program for them. |
| 1:51.1 | That NGO would then take about some percentage of that money for their overhead and administrative costs. |
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