During the first week of February, the Trump administration’s Treasury Department, acting on an order from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), cut off all funding to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the spearhead organization for funding color revolutions and overthrow of governments around the world. In what is called an “exclusive” the Detroit Free Press reported on Feb. 11 that the NED and its affiliates had received $315 million for fiscal year 2025 (which started Oct. 1 of 2024).
The NED released a statement on its website on Feb. 25, that: “The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is currently unable to access its Congressionally appropriated funds, which sustain nearly all of its grantmaking and operations. As a result, for the first time in the organization’s four-decade history, it has been unable to meet its obligations and has been forced to suspend support for nearly 2,000 partners worldwide.”
The NED, acting as the handmaiden of the CIA, U.S. State Department, and British Foreign Office and City of London financier interests, has been involved in the destabilization and overthrow of governments in every region, either directly—through its branches, the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute—or through its “2,000 partners,” whose policy it steered while funding them.
In July 2014, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti revealed that NED had invested $14 million in the “Ukrainian project” that culminated in the Euromaidan mass protests in 2014 that ousted President Viktor Yanukovych. RIA Novosti wrote about the “demonstrators” who staged the Maidan coup: “The radicals and rioters got the money where such suspicious people usually get it, in Washington. As it turns out, the National Endowment for Democracy paid for the cookies.” These cookies were distributed in the Maidan by coup ringleader, then-Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, who served on the NED Board of Directors on 2018-2021, until she was brought into the Biden administration as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.