Joe Rogan on usaid: what the evidence says · JRE #2281
JRE #2281 · “Elon Musk” · aired
Joe Rogan(host)
“And then you find out, actually, it's like $250 million for transgender animal studies.”
What the evidence says
The ~$250 million figure originates from the advocacy group White Coat Waste Project, which in Feb 2025 claimed the federal government had spent 'a quarter-billion & counting' on transgender-related animal research. Fact-checkers (Snopes, Al Jazeera) found this spending is attributed to NIH, HHS, and USDA grants for hormone-therapy research using animal models, not to USAID. No credible fact-check source ties this figure to USAID funding, so the claim as stated misattributes the spending to the wrong federal agency.