Two Senate Republicans are looking to use funding allocated for the embattled U.S. Agency for International Development to instead pay for repairing housing for veterans as the Trump administration works to shutter the agency.
Sens. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Mike Lee (R-UT) are introducing the Veterans First Act of 2025 in the Senate on Thursday. The bill, exclusively obtained by the Washington Examiner, seeks to repurpose $2 billion from the agency’s appropriated funds to the Department of Veterans Affairs to instead purchase, build, or repair state veterans homes.
The proposed use of USAID funds comes as the Trump administration has worked to shutter the agency, accusing it of advancing a liberal agenda and being a wasteful use of taxpayer dollars, as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency looks to slim the federal government.
The administration’s order to close the agency has been met with legal challenges, with a federal judge ruling that President Donald Trump overstepped his constitutional authority in freezing the agency’s humanitarian work abroad despite Congress appropriating the funds for foreign aid.
However, the judge did not order the Trump administration to bring back terminated contracts for foreign aid and development work.
Over 5,000 awards under USAID have been terminated and more than 500 retained since the executive order, and thousands of employees have been fired or put on leave.
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