Biden Announces $1 Billion Gift, Here’s Who Gets It

During his trip to Angola, Biden announced that he would provide more than $1 billion in humanitarian aid to Africa.

Biden, in a speech before Angolan President João Loureno, stated,  “The United States is all in on Africa.”

The aide will go to refugees and internally displaced persons while also addressing food shortages.

Biden’s move was met with severe backlash on social media.

Take a look:

DEMOCRATS HAVE ZERO SELF AWARENESS.

Biden announces $1 billion gift to Africa to help the homeless displaced by non-existent climate change.

1) This is simply a grift that enriches NGOs.

2) Helene victims are currently homeless in North Carolina.pic.twitter.com/fSTSax0T4p

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 3, 2024

North Carolinians are still struggling to recover from a deadly flood and don’t have the resources they need yet Joe Biden just traveled to Africa and pledged over a billion dollars to help Africans hit by floods rebuild. I can’t believe this is real: pic.twitter.com/h8QnB5zGx0

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) December 3, 2024

Per US AID:

Today, President Joseph R. Biden announced that the United States is providing more than $1 billion in additional humanitarian assistance to address food insecurity and other urgent needs of refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and affected communities in 31 African countries. This funding, announced during President Biden’s visit to Angola, includes nearly $823 million through USAID – of which more than $202 million is from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation – and nearly $186 million through the U.S. Department of State.

At the U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit in 2022, President Biden reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to our African partners to accelerate progress toward achieving food security, including addressing the immediate and acute food insecurity crisis through humanitarian assistance. Africa is the region with the largest percentage of the population facing hunger. According to the UN, one in five Africans – almost 300 million people – faced hunger in 2023, and the number of people facing acute food insecurity and malnutrition continues to rise.

Armed conflict, extreme weather events, natural disasters, and other emergencies are driving humanitarian needs across the continent and requiring humanitarian assistance to save lives and alleviate suffering among the most vulnerable. Today’s announcement, yet again, demonstrates our firm commitment to stand alongside our African partners and people across the continent in addressing the challenge of food insecurity.

With this additional assistance, including funding from the bipartisan National Security Supplemental, U.S. humanitarian partners are providing life-saving assistance and vital programs for people at risk of exploitation and abuse, including refugees, IDPs, and affected communities. Additionally, implementing partners are providing emergency health care and water, sanitation, and hygiene services to help prevent the transmission of infectious diseases among the most vulnerable people affected by acute food insecurity and malnutrition. This funding will also assist affected populations to meet other essential needs, such as protection, mental health, education, and shelter. With the Commodity Credit Corporation funding, USAID is purchasing, shipping, and distributing U.S. agricultural commodities from American farmers to provide life-saving food assistance for food-insecure populations in East and Central Africa.
The United States has long supported communities in need of food aid and other lifesaving humanitarian assistance across Africa and intends to continue this support and continues to urge other donors to step up in this time of historic need. In Fiscal Year 2024, the United States provided nearly $6.6 billion in humanitarian assistance across sub-Saharan Africa, but much more must be done by the entire international donor community to address critical and increasing needs.

Biden-Harris just sent $1+ billion to Africa for disaster relief while this is happening HERE: pic.twitter.com/wdS3ptpX6Q

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 3, 2024

Per Military:

Speaking of “our nation’s original sin,” President Joe Biden on Tuesday toured a slavery museum in Angola and inspected shackles and a whip but also addressed Africa’s future, saying Africans will make up one in four people by 2050 and the world’s fate rests in their hands.

Biden’s visit, the first to Angola by a U.S. president, is meant to promote billions of dollars of commitments to the sub-Saharan African nation for what he called the largest-ever U.S. rail investment overseas.

“The United States is all in on Africa,” Biden earlier Tuesday told Angolan President João Lourenço, who called Biden’s visit a key turning point in U.S.-Angola relations dating back to the Cold War.

But even as the trip was meant to counter China’s influence on the African continent of over 1.4 billion people by showcasing a U.S. commitment of $3 billion for the Lobito Corridor railway redevelopment linking Zambia, Congo and Angola, China announced its own move.

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The corridor across southern Africa is meant to make it easier to ship raw materials for export and advance the U.S. presence in a region rich in critical minerals used in batteries for electric vehicles, electronic devices and clean energy technologies.