🇭🇳 Honduras faces a growing democratic crisis under President Xiomara Castro.

Recent events signal the country is trending toward the authoritarian path taken by Venezuela and Nicaragua, threatening U.S. national security and regional stability.

🧵 THREAD The ruling LIBRE party has systematically consolidated power, with Zelaya family members holding key government positions.

Ruling party supporters have physically blocked opposition companies from bidding on electoral contracts, while the National Electoral Council faces ongoing institutional crisis ahead of 2025 elections.

🚨 Here's a list of ways USAID wasted YOUR tax dollars 🧵 To promote DEI agenda:
➡️ $11,750,229 to measure effectiveness of the efforts to promote DEI in Nepal (Project ID #AID367C1500001)
➡️ $7,400,000 to provide general support to the office of DEIA (Project ID #7200AA22F50016, #7200AA22A00005)
➡️ $750,000 for Princeton University for DEI survey in the Middle East (Project ID #7200AA21C00087)
➡️ $859,057 for hiring a DEI specialist at USAID headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Project ID #720BHA23S00034)
➡️ $22,878 to host DEI recruitment seminars in San Martin, Iquitos, and Lima, Peru (Project ID #72052723P00066)
➡️ $558,362 for emergency DEI support (Project ID #7200AA22C00075)
➡️ $969,821 for hiring an LGBT advisor for USAID’s U.S. Personal Services Contractor program (Project ID #7200AA22S00012)
➡️ $15,545 for DEIA staff retreat in Nigeria (Project ID #72062023P00088)
➡️ $100,000 to conduct a DEI survey in Ghana (Project ID #72062423C00002)
➡️ $49,667 to create a DEI fellowship in Uzbekistan (Project ID #72012224P00001)
➡️ $30,280 – DEIA facilitated conversations in Senegal (Project ID #72068523F50009, #72068520A00009)
➡️ $23,325 for purchasing promotional materials for an upcoming DEI retreat (Project ID #720RFS22PC00011)

CHM @RepMcCaul released the following statement in response to the bipartisan committee action to disclose updated data on tech transferred to blacklisted Chinese companies⬇️ Find the full data and release here ⬇️ foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/…

Before the 1-yr mark of Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, CHM
@RepMcCaul led a CODEL to Poland & Ukraine to conduct oversight of US assistance to Ukraine- joined by @JakeElizey, @DarrellIssa, @MaxMillerOH, @RepKeithSelf & released the below⬇️ gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/… The delegation visited w/ the 101st Airborne Division & @USAID’s Disaster Assistance Response Team in Poland, & Embassy Kyiv staff in Ukraine, to deepen their understanding of the mechanisms to track weapon systems & ensure U.S. assistance reaches its intended beneficiaries⬇️

LR @RepMcCaul "All roads lead to the #WIV. We know gain-of-function research was happening there & we know it was being done in unsafe conditions. We also now know the head of the Chinese CDC & the director of the WIV’s BSL-4 lab publicly expressed concerns ab safety at PRC labs. "#CCP officials & scientists at the #WIV [then] began frantically covering up the leak, including taking their virus database offline in the middle of the night & requesting more than $1M for additional security. But their coverup was too late – the virus was already spreading.