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𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐔𝐌 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐍𝐆𝐎 𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐌: 𝟏𝟎𝟎% 𝐎𝐅 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐔𝐄 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐆𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐒 — 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 $𝟔𝟓𝟎𝐊, 𝐋𝐎𝐁𝐁𝐘𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 $𝟒𝟎𝟎𝐊 “𝘞𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 80 𝘵𝘰 100 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘕𝘎𝘖 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘊𝘌𝘖 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 $650,000 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 $400,000 𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘣𝘺𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴.” — 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘨 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘮 Read that again. The federal government was the 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 for these NGOs. Every dollar they had came from taxpayers. And what did they spend it on? — A CEO pulling $𝟔𝟓𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐚 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 — Four lobbyists at $𝟒𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 That’s $2.25 million just in executive compensation and lobbying — funded entirely by YOU — to lobby the same government that was giving them the money in the first place. This is the grift: the government gives your tax dollars to an NGO. The NGO pays lobbyists to lobby Congress for more grants. Congress gives them more money. The cycle repeats. 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜. Everyone gets rich. This is exactly why DOGE exists. This is exactly why these grants are being eliminated. Not because conservation doesn’t matter — but because these organizations weren’t doing conservation. They were running a 𝐭𝐚𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫-𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭. 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦.