USAID Funneled Nearly $800 Million To ‘Gender Transformative’ Global Censorship Group

  Logan Washburn

USAID funneled $799 million to a group that launched a global censorship platform and pushed radical gender ideology.

America’s foreign aid agency, USAID, has given nearly $800 million to a group that has pushed censorship and suppressed “heteronormativity” across the globe, according to documents reviewed by The Federalist.

The Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) took in $799.7 million in funding from 2015 to 2021, per IRS tax documents. According to InfluenceWatch, “The organization is solely funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).”

As President Donald Trump pushes to “wind down” USAID — which has apparently become a massive “scam on U.S. taxpayers” — government funding disclosures have brought to light the often frivolous, and in this case nefarious, use of public tax dollars. As The Federalist previously reported, the federal government has been bankrolling America’s legacy media outlets for years with tens of millions of dollars in lucrative contracts.

CEPPS — whose website is no longer public —  claims to be a “nonpartisan” group focused on global “democratic development,” according to an archived webpage. But its website suggests that, while corporate media have been pushing propaganda domestically, CEPPS has been advancing censorship — and radical gender ideology — throughout the rest of the world.

The Money Trail

CEPPS was funded by USAID’s “Global Elections and Political Transitions” award from 2016 to 2020, according to InfluenceWatch. After that award was discontinued in 2022, USAID gave the group a “Democratic Elections and Political Processes award” for another five years.

CEPPS’s online IRS documents only show the group’s funding up until 2021, so The Federalist analyzed the group’s funding based on that publicly available information. The group received more than $94.1 million in 2015 — eventually reaching nearly $160.8 million in 2021, for a total of $799,699,782 in federal funding over seven years. Interestingly, in these documents, the group does not report the salaries of top officials.