Melania and Ivanka Trump used thousands of Dollars from USAID to finance pets during Trump's first term, it has been unveiled because the expenditure of the agency is examined by the president.
The president went terribly to the USAID this week, the use of taxpayers set out and said that it had to be 'corrupt' in his expenses.
But despite Donald's contempt for the auxiliary horse, it has had close ties with his wife and daughter for years by investing in their government companies.
USAID helped finance the best program of Melania Trump and the global development and welfare initiative of Ivanka Trump during the first Trump period.
And every woman traveled with the desk on separate trips to Africa, where they praised the investments that made it on the continent.
Ivanka Trump traveled in April 2019 with the then USAID manager Mark Green to Africa, where they met female entrepreneurs in Ethiopia and national cocoa farmers on the Ivory Coast.
USAID supervised $ 265 million a year to spend Ivanka Trump's Women's Business Initiative and an associated antipoverty program.
Melania Trump worked with the office during her trip from 2018 to Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt.
In Malawi, the First Lady promoted the National Reading Program of USAID, which on behalf of 1.4 million school books donated to the more than 5,600 primary schools in the nation affected by poverty.
“I am so proud of the work that this administration does through USAID and others,” said the First Lady at the time, “and is looking forward to the possibility of taking the message of my best campaign to many of the countries, and children , throughout Africa. '
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Ivanka Trump, senior adviser to President Donald Trump in his first term, speaks during a discussion about the Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative in November 2019
![First Lady Melania Trump walks with children during a visit to the Nest Dwee in Limuru, Kenya - she traveled with USAID to Africa and praised his work there](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/02/07/00/94944125-14369601-First_lady_Melania_Trump_walks_with_children_during_a_visit_to_t-a-1_1738888336590.jpg)
First Lady Melania Trump walks with children during a visit to the Nest Dwee in Limuru, Kenya – she traveled with USAID to Africa and praised his work there
In his first term, Trump heavily reduced financing for the auxiliary horse, but it still found money to invest in the government companies of his family.
Ivanka Trump used USAID for its program to promote women in the business world and claimed that 12 million women around the world had been helped through it.
She traveled with the office to Colombia in September 2019 to lead a workshop for female entrepreneurs.
In the same year she also used more than $ 11,000 from the desk to buy video recording and reproducing equipment for an event of the White House, according to the records.
In the meantime, USAID was one of the first instances to mention an ambassador in the best initiative of Melania Trump.
When Melania Trump announced her signature program for the first time in May 2018, she asked government agencies to name a contact person with her group. USAID did that immediately.
During her one -year anniversary in May, Melania recognized the desk and thanked it for calling the first his best ambassador.
“For the first time in history, the United States Agency for International Development has appointed a best ambassador,” she said.
'On this one -year anniversary of my initiative, I call on all our partner agencies to appoint a best ambassador who will serve as a contact between my office and their respective agency to promote the programs and services offered to parents and to parents And children on behalf of the US government, “she added.
Donald Trump was listening in the audience.
Neither De East Wing, the West Wing, nor the office of Ivanka Trump responded to the request of Dailymail.com for comments.
USAID provides billions of dollars in humanitarian aid abroad.
The Trump government threatens to close the independent agency under the umbrella of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
State Secretary Marco Rubio is now acting director of the office that was announced this week.
Hundreds of USAID contractors were placed on unpaid leave and some were terminated. Elon Musk, who runs Trump's Department of Government Efficiency or Doge program, said the agency would be eliminated.
The Washington DC office is closed and employees were placed on leave or told to work from home.
![Ivanka Trump talks to Venezuelan migrant Andry Rodriguez in a migrant shelter in La Parada near Cucuta, Colombia when she traveled to the country with USAID in September 2019](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/02/06/19/94942603-14369601-image-a-31_1738870186089.jpg)
Ivanka Trump talks to Venezuelan migrant Andry Rodriguez in a migrant shelter in La Parada near Cucuta, Colombia when she traveled to the country with USAID in September 2019
Trump said about the desk: “It is run by a bunch of radical madmen and we remove them.”
He also claims that it must be 'corrupt' to approve certain initiatives.
The president has condemned the agency for its spending practices, including having a subscription to Politico Pro, a service that follows legislation and other government news.
And his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, gave a sizzling report of the spending of USAID. She spoke with reporters in the White House last week and stopped a sheet of paper with details about the amazing ways in which the money from the taxpayers was handed out.
![First Lady Melania Trump is with a students and chief teacher Maureen Masi during the language class while visiting the Chipala Primary School, in Lilongwe, Malawi as part of her trip to Africa with USAID in October 2018](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/02/06/19/94944461-14369601-image-a-35_1738870243439.jpg)
First Lady Melania Trump is with a students and chief teacher Maureen Masi during the language class while visiting the Chipala Primary School, in Lilongwe, Malawi as part of her trip to Africa with USAID in October 2018
![Then the head of the USAID enjoy the white house advisor Ivanka Trump and Mark Green.](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/02/06/19/94944559-14369601-image-a-36_1738870367369.jpg)
Then the head of the USAID enjoy the white house advisor Ivanka Trump and Mark Green.
It was a clear reference to a story in Daily Mail, which first outlined the shocking expenses with regard to diversity, equity and inclusion (Dei), on which President Trump ordered a performance.
“I don't know how you are. But if an American taxpayer I don't want my dollars to go to this nonsense. And I know that the American people are not. And that is exactly what Elon Musk has been informed by President Trump to do. To get the fraud, waste and abuse from the federal government, “said Leavitt.