"End the Gravy Train: Why Public Money Should Not Fund NGOs"

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Not elected, not accountable, yet flush with your tax dollars.

Why does this matter? 

• Because it represents a fundamental evasion of the structure and safeguards of constitutional democracy. The Founders designed a system of checks, balances, and electoral accountability. 
• No power without representation, no authority without transparency. 

But in recent decades, and particularly under the Biden administration, a parallel architecture has emerged. 

This architecture is built not of departments and agencies, but of foundations, non-profits, and NGOs. 

It is a second state, answerable not to the people, but to donors.

• What precisely are NGOs doing with public funds? 
• Everything from facilitating migrant influxes at the border, to administering social justice programs abroad, to writing and distributing model legislation domestically. 

The problem is not only the content of their actions but the structure in which they occur. 

• NGOs are not subject to FOIA requests.
•  They are not answerable to voters. 
• They are rarely audited. 
• Yet they regularly execute the very programs that would be politically toxic or legally suspect for the government itself...