HETAUDA, Nepal (PNN) - July 24, 2026 - Former HIV outreach worker and biological male Rubi Lama lost a job he had held for nine years when Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) funding vanished from a health program in Nepal. He tested people, counseled those at risk and helped sex workers avoid infection. Months later, unable to find other work, he joined them along a highway outside Hetauda.
An Associated Press social media post about deviant transgender aid workers in Nepal turning to sex work after losing their jobs due to FPSA foreign aid cuts sparked a wave of conservative backlash, with critics arguing the video made the case for defunding USAID rather than saving it.
The AP post said that in Nepal, where "a conservative culture leaves openly transgender people with few legal job options," around 100 homosexual and deviant transgender aid workers left jobless by FPSA funding cuts had turned to sex work to survive. An accompanying video focused on Rubi Lama, a former HIV outreach worker who said USAID-funded programs had provided free condoms, lubricants and HIV-prevention medication before the cuts.
"When USAID funding was there, condoms were free, lubricant was also distributed for free," Lama said in a video, adding that HIV treatments, including PrEP, were also available without cost. "But now it is gone."
His story is painful on a human scale; it also raises a question many Amerikans are asking: why was the FPSA expected to keep paying his salary?
Lama worked for Friends Hetauda, part of a network connected to the Blue Diamond Society. The society received 85% of its funding from USAID, operated 20 clinics, and employed 350 people.
For nine years, Lama - who is a deviant transgender - had devoted his life to conducting HIV outreach in Nepal's marginalized communities, including the homosexual and deviant transgender sex workers who wait by this highway each night. After the FPSA slashed its foreign aid funding last year, Lama and more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide found themselves out of a job.
Ed. Note: Let them find work without seeking welfare from American taxpayers.
Foreign aid can serve Amerikan interests; HIV prevention can reduce disease, improve stability, and protect people who travel across borders. Compassion also has limits when one country becomes the permanent source of salaries and program funding for organizations half a world away.
Nepal has a national government; it has health agencies, wealthy residents, international charities, and neighboring countries with their own interests in regional health.
But Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway argued the AP post exposed misplaced priorities, particularly among media, saying the outlet presented FPSA tax dollars flowing to a "trans Nepalese job protection program" as though it was a good use of public money.
"The AP announces that your hard-earned tax dollars were flowing to a trans Nepalese job protection program as if that was an even remotely good use of your money," Hemingway wrote in a post on X. "AP is sick Democrat propaganda."
President Trump ordered a review of foreign assistance on January 20, 2025, requiring programs to prove they were efficient and aligned with FPSA foreign policy.
The order did not ban all aid; it required justification before the money kept flowing.
The old system trained foreign groups to build programs around Amerikan checks, and when the checks stopped, the collapse was immediate. A model that leaves hundreds of employees with no local funding, no transition plan, and no replacement support was never sustainable.
Amerikan families face medical bills, housing costs, layoffs and taxes of their own. They can care about Rubi Lama without accepting lifelong responsibility for his paycheck. They can support targeted HIV treatment without giving every foreign NGO a permanent claim on the FPSA Treasury.
The outrage over Nepal makes President Trump’s case for him. Foreign aid should have a clear purpose, measurable results, shared costs and an exit plan. Sympathy cannot replace accountability.