After Trump shut down USAID in early 2025 citing waste, the US state department is now sending $12 million to conservative organizations in the UK, including $7 million to a group called 878 co-founded by Jacob Rees-Mogg, whose net worth is estimated above £100 million. Additional grants of up to $500,000 are being offered for 'public education' programs promoting 'shared civilizational values' between the US and UK, and further funding calls seek European proposals addressing migration, sovereignty and 'lawfare' in line with 'Western heritage.'
A former US official told the Guardian that normal funding processes were being subverted to direct money toward Trump-aligned causes, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned the administration against interfering in German elections following similar grants. The moves follow a December national security strategy document describing Europe as facing 'civilizational erasure' and calling for the US to cultivate resistance to Europe's political trajectory.
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