House GOP votes to fund deep state Leftist organization against Trump’s request
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State and Related Programs advanced a bill last week that would fund the National Endowment for Democracy, despite President Trump’s opposition.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is widely believed to be an intelligence front. Former State Department official and intelligence expert Mike Benz says the “CIA cutout” is “the worst of the worst” of federal agencies. Created in 1983, the private organization receives around $100 million annually from Congress and has been shaping world events since the 1980s, though it vehemently denies being tied to the CIA.
NED is known for having backed rebel forces in Nicaragua during the eighties and having trained and funded protesters during the Arab Spring in 2011 among other regime changes around the world. Today, it funds gender orthodoxy and other Leftist ideologies worldwide. It also finances domestic propaganda and censorship operations, like the Global Disinformation Index, which helped censor Right-wing news outlets.
In May, the White House asked the House Appropriations Committee to withhold funding from NED.
“Under the Biden Administration and at the start of the Russia/Ukraine war, the NED blocked public access to its grant details after having never provided disclosure in the manner required by Federal law,” the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) wrote in a letter to the committee. “In March 2025, it was discovered that NED funded the Ukraine disinformation organization that doxed U.S. journalists[,] called for prosecutions of allies of the President, and attacked the Vice President, Joe Kent, and others as ‘foreign propagandists of the Russian Federation.’ NED also funded the now-infamous Disinformation Index Foundation that targeted and blacklisted conservative media outlets like Federalist, Newsmax, TAC, the Blaze, NYP, etc. The Budget eliminates funding for NED.”
Helping Trump by…defying him?
But on July 23rd, the House Appropriations Subcommittee advanced a bill granting NED $315 million. Puzzlingly, Republicans claim their action is somehow promoting Trump’s agenda.
“Through the strategic use of NED, this bill doubles down on confronting hostile adversaries such as Communist China and Iran, two of President Trump’s highest national security priorities,” House Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL) told the Daily Caller. “The underlying principles that guided the formation of this bill are what is best for American national security and for the American taxpayer.
Propaganda and Pride
In addition to funding censorship of Right-wing publications, NED is also behind the so-called fact-checking industry. The organization funds The Poynter Institute, the world’s largest fact-checking giant and owner of PolitiFact. Poynter is also funded by Google, Facebook/Meta, the US State Department, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
NED also finances Pride events around the globe. Tbilisi Pride, for example—an organization responsible for organizing Pride events and propagating gender ideology in Tbilisi, Georgia—received $97,000 for 2023-2024 from NED.
Between 2016 and 2020, NED also funded the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, alongside George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the European Union, UNICEF, UNHCR, and other organizations. The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee is one of the organizers of Sofia Pride, which bills itself as the largest Pride event in Bulgaria.
