Trump claims USAID funding in India was to get ‘someone else elected’

Trump claims USAID funding in India was to get ‘someone else elected’

US President Donald Trump has once again raised concerns over the Biden administration’s decision to allocate $21 million to India for “voter turnout,” suggesting it may have been an attempt to influence the election outcome.

“Why do we need to spend $21 million on voter turnout in India? I guess they were trying to get somebody else elected. We have got to tell the Indian Government… This is a total breakthrough,” he stated during a summit in Miami on Thursday.

His comments followed a disclosure by the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an agency headed by billionaire Elon Musk, which revealed that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had allocated $21 million to support “voter turnout” efforts in India.

DOGE, established as a cost-cutting initiative in Washington under Trump, published a list on February 16 detailing where “US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent.” Among the listed expenditures was “$21M for voter turnout in India,” with the agency noting that all such expenses had been revoked.