US ally accuses Biden admin of using USAID as a 'tool to interfere with domestic issues'

"The former administration couldn't digest that we weren't ready to give up our national positions. We were not ready to give up representing our national interests," Szijjártó told Fox News Digital. "And we were not ready to give up our non-liberal, patriotic, conservative type of approach."

Szijjártó also accused the Biden administration of using USAID to "destabilize the situation in other countries" and to fund "programs which were totally alien and strange compared to the culture and the heritage of other countries."

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a longtime ally of Trump, also ripped USAID after it was reported that the agency was funding Politico.

Orbán followed up in another tweet saying, "We had to endure for years that the ultra-progressive, self-proclaimed human rights champions of the mainstream media demonized Patriotic political forces for years. They did it because they were paid to do so by USAID and the previous, left-wing US administration. I agree with President [Trump]: this is too big and too dirty to hide from."

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed during Wednesday's press briefing that "more than $8 million taxpayer dollars" went to Politico, adding that DOGE is "working on canceling those payments." However, the publication denied that it has ever been a "beneficiary of government programs."

Musk, who is heading up Trump's cost-cutting efforts through DOGE, described the agency as a "viper's nest of radical-left Marxists who hate America."

At the end of its list, the White House noted that the highlighted examples were part of a longer list of projects.

"Under President Trump, the waste, fraud, and abuse ENDS NOW," the White House added.