Soros-funded Dems suddenly upset by billionaires in government

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Happily for those of us who keep an eye on such things, Schumer’s rant was reposted by Alex Soros.

Not many readers will have heard of Alex Soros. But I can tell you this: He is not a man who got where he did simply by hard work.

Alex is the son of multibillionaire investor and dark-money donor George Soros. He is also now engaged to former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin (who, for some reason, ditched Anthony Weiner some time ago).

Anyone who follows Soros Jr. on social media will have noticed that he gets some pretty amazing photo opportunities. One day he’s posting a photo of himself with Nancy Pelosi. Next he’s standing next to Schumer. Another day he’s with Kamala Harris or Tim Walz (remember him?). Still another day he’s with Pete Buttigieg or Elizabeth Warren.

What a charmed life.

But why did all these people spend recent years shimmying up to Alex Soros? Is it the man’s charisma, brains, insight and originality? No, of course not. It’s because his father is a billionaire radical left-wing investor, and so is he.

Everyone knew that it was pay-to-play with the Democrats. If you or I asked every member of the Democratic high command for a meeting, it’s unlikely we’d get one. But change your name to Soros and you might get a different result.

So it’s not like Schumer & Co. care about non-elected people having any say in government. It’s just that they don’t like it — in fact, they really hate it — when it isn’t their guys.

There is no other principle here. The Dems who object to the work of DOGE are just angry that for once it isn’t their side that’s calling the shots.

Take the shuttering of USAID. For the Dems, this was one of their agencies. One of those taxpayer-funded boondoggles that allowed Democrats to pursue and further their own interests. Not America’s interests — their own interests. As bizarre as some of them were.

None of it came cheap. In the fiscal year 2023, USAID’s budget totaled some $40 billion. To put that in context, that is roughly the GDP of a small country like Estonia.

The agency was run like a small country, too. Many years ago, Samantha Power came to prominence for a book she wrote on genocide. She was against it — like most people — but the Democrats were in need of a person who could claim some moral heft. And so Power rose up the ranks and ended up as US ambassador to the United Nations under President Barack Obama. During that time, she failed to prevent any genocides. But that is another matter.

In recent years, Power has been the head of USAID. And during that time, she has enjoyed the lovely meeting place where radical left-wing billionaire foundations and Democratic activist politics meet.

During her time as the head of USAID, Power had multiple meetings with the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and — of course — the Soros family’s Open Society Foundation.

This got passed off as an innocent little meeting of minds. Power claimed that “Work with philanthropies and the private sector to catalyze resources to tackle these complex global challenges is important to improving the quality of life for people around the world.”

Because of course Power does a fine line in pre-2025 swamp gobbledygook.

But the agency over which she presided did things that have nothing to do with the US national interest.

It’s not just the $1.5 million for DEI in Serbia. Or the $2.5 million for electric vehicle charging stations in Vietnam. Nor is it merely the half a million dollars thrown at Indonesian coffee companies so that they could meet “gender goals.” Or even the millions of dollars sent to the Taliban to provide contraceptives and condoms. Although that one could be said to have its upsides.

It’s the fact that we now know that USAID and other wasteful agencies were fixing and nixing things behind the scenes. Take the discovery that the government spent millions of dollars in subscriptions to friendly media outlets like Pol

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