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US overseas support funded authorized recommendation for transgender asylum seekers and different range initiatives in Britain, it has been revealed.

Joe Biden’s administration donated at the least $120,000 – virtually £100,000 – to range, fairness and inclusion (DEI) and LGBT schemes throughout the UK.

They included Pride-themed concert events and a e-book pageant interview sequence on “gender identity and inequality”.

Donald Trump has begun disbanding the US worldwide growth company USAid, claiming US taxpayers have been funding “radical” Left-wing initiatives all over the world.

Nigel Farage accused Mr Biden of pushing a “massive societal and political interference” programme in Britain and heralded the return of “common sense” underneath Mr Trump.

Virtually all the help to Left-wing British organisations recognized by The Telegraph got here from the US State Department, versus USAid.

In Oct 2022, the division authorised funding of $25,000 to Rainbow Migration, an organization that gives authorized recommendation to “LGBTQI+ people” making an attempt to say asylum within the UK.

The identical yr, it signed a take care of the Edinburgh International Book Festival to offer $40,000 for a sequence of interviews “engaging with social issues around gender identity and inequality, racial equity, and diversity”.

It additionally authorised $35,000 for a college in Ohio to create a sequence of exhibitions across the UK about “LGBTQ+ stories” in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In June 2024, as a part of its diplomacy programme, the state division allotted $20,000 to “Classical Pride”, a live performance sequence throughout London.

Mr Farage stated he was relieved Mr Trump had changed Mr Biden as a result of “US taxpayer money will no longer poison British society”.

The Reform UK chief, a pal of Mr Trump, stated the sequence of US government-approved programmes had been motivated by a “Leftist, globalist, woke agenda to completely transform the Western world, to break down all the institutions that we believe in”.

He added: “This is massive societal and political interference that has been coming from America. And Trump’s going to kill it… we’re getting back to good, basic, sound principles.”

Mr Trump’s efforts to disband USAid, the world’s largest single support donor, have been positioned on maintain on Friday owing to a authorized problem.