USAID Gave $1 Million in Taxpayer Dollars to George Soros-Founded University

In 1991 George Soros founded Central European University to help advance his political ideology in Budapest but moved it to Vienna in late 2018 amid a crackdown from Hungary’s anti-Soros government. In 1995 the school opened an archive that was later renamed the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (and again later to the Blinken OSA Archivum) - Donald being the father of Joe Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken. 

Despite stepping back from his Open Society Foundations (OSF), George is still CEU’s “honorary chair” of the Board of Trustees, and his heir, Alex Soros, is a member of the board. 

Due to immense funding from George, the school is one of the wealthiest per-student in Europe, but that hasn’t stopped him from taking handouts.

As NewsBusters’ Joseph Vazquez exposed: 

USAID gave a $1 million grant to Central European University. The grant’s period began in September of FY 2021 and is set to end in September FY 2025, with $238,609 of the total obligated grant being outlayed so far. 

To illustrate just how invested Soros is in elevating CEU on the global stage, his Open Society Foundations funneled an ungodly $948,570,000 into the university between 2016 and 2023 alone. 

But somehow, even with Soros throwing his fortune at CEU, the Biden USAID still poured tax dollars into a university that has been at the nexus of global leftism and anti-American dogmatism.

The grant is administered through the “American Schools and Hospitals Abroad” program, which is for schools that “best demonstrate American ideas,” a completely subjective criteria. Only an ideologue at USAID would agree that CEU meets this definition. USAID was funneling money to CEU at the same time as an Open Society University Network (co-founded by CEO) was hosting a webinar claiming that the reaction to 9/11 helped fuel white supremacy and police officers committ genocide against black people. 

Alex has furthered his father’s “deny, deny, deny” strategy when it started making headlines that they were benefitting from the American taxpayer dollar.

Earlier in February, the OSF put out a statement on supposed “false claims” about their involvement with USAID. “The claims that the Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros, receive funding from USAID or direct the funding of a multibillion-dollar U.S. government agency are manifestly false. These allegations are part of a broader effort to undermine international development work and delegitimize the independent funding of civil society organizations worldwide.”

For anyone looking for multiple examples of USAID funding Soros-ventures, check out my article George Soros' Fingerprints Are All Over USAID.

Only a few months earlier, the OSF put out a press release that “Alex Soros, chair of the Open Society Foundations, has outlined a new vision for the Foundations’ higher education work, and reaffirmed Open Society’s financial commitment to the Central European University (CEU) through 2032 and beyond” - and he wanted your tax money to help.

Matt Palumbo Is the Author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros