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I see this in Seattle a lot with the Homeless Industrial Complex - you ask them to track where they're spending their public money and the answer is "We're a private outfit". The left has been enabling this for years:
https://nypost.com/2025/04/14/opinion/how-democrat...

How Democrats used NGOs to end-run voters: A ‘parallel government’
By Glenn H. Reynolds

Published April 14, 2025, 6:20 p.m. ET

They’re not government entities, we thought — the very name says that — but a species of private charity whose good intentions deserve the benefit of any doubt.

Perhaps some NGOs do operate in that way.

But as we’ve learned recently, partly as the result of Department of Government Efficiency digging, many “non-governmental” entities are really just fronts for government activities that Americans would never stand for if Washington attempted them directly.

Count me in this camp.

For example, America’s border crisis was funded in large part by President Joe Biden’s government, which sent large sums of money in the form of grants to various NGOs that helped train migrants on how to get to the United States — and how to claim asylum when they arrived.

NGOs helped the illegal immigrants with expenses on their way, and then provided legal resources and more than $22 billion worth of assistance for them — including cash for cars, home loans and business start-ups — once they got in.

This was US taxpayer money, laundered through “independent” organizations that served to promote goals contrary to US law, but consistent with the policy preferences of the Biden administration.

Under President Trump, this funding halted — and, unsurprisingly, the flow of illegal immigrants did, too.

Funny, that.

More at the link.

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They were tools of government, “the parallel government,” Pounds wrote, specifically doing things that Washington bureaucrats knew full well they couldn’t easily do themselves.

The big surprise is that we’re so surprised this has been going on.

The lack of accountability also made NGOs a perfect conduit for funneling money to Washington insiders.

It’s been a profitable cycle: Politicians fund agencies; agencies make grants to NGOs; NGOs hire politicians’ wives and offspring — and sometimes the politicians themselves, once they’ve left office.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), for example, voted to award $14.2 million to Ocean Conservancy since 2008, Fox News reported — and the NGO, in turn, paid his wife, Sandra Whitehouse, and her firm $2.7 million for consulting work.

This is one reason why the "How to Stand up to a Dictator" thread is so awesome: the d's have been doing most of the stuff on the list for decades.

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