Art of Deception: The Soros Empire Gaslights on Connection to USAID Funding

 New MRC revelations that George Soros’s own global university that he founded was getting American tax dollars completely fly in the face of his organization’s attempts to dismiss any perceived connections with the disgraced U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

“The claims that the Open Society Foundations (OSF), founded by George Soros, receive funding from USAID or direct the funding of a multibillion-dollar U.S. government agency are manifestly false,” railed OSF in a February 12 press release.

OSF attempted to play the victim, and pontificated that reporting connecting USAID and the OSF apparatus are “part of a broader effort to undermine international development work and delegitimize the independent funding of civil society organizations worldwide.” 

“Independent funding?” What a joke. MRC Business revealed February 28 that Central European University, an anti-American academic behemoth that Soros founded and sits as “honorary chair,” was granted at least $1 million from President Joe Biden’s USAID for the period September FY2021 through September FY2025. So far, $238,609 of the total obligated grant was outlayed, which means CEU is still set to receive tax dollars to complete the grant this year. Soros’s son Alex, who now runs OSF as chairman, also sits on CEU’s Board of Trustees, which is telling, since they're trying to imply you can't connect dots from USAID to CEU and CEU to OSF.

In November 2024, OSF celebrated how Alex “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.” During a board meeting, Alex “told fellow trustees that the new model for higher education will be centered around the creation of an Open Society University (OSU), a successor organization to the Open Society University Network. OSU will advance the Foundations’ decades-long commitment to supporting excellence and expanding global access to higher education.” Soros funneled a whopping $948,570,000 into CEU between 2016 and 2023 alone. 

In essence: OSUN, the global university system which is now co-led by CEU along with the Soros-backed Bard College, will morph into OSU, with CEU and Bard at the helm of a new “federated” structure of academic institutions dedicated to pushing Soros’s utopian vision for the world. Did OSF disclose that USAID was funding CEU in either its November 2024 or February 12, 2025 statement? Nope. The aforementioned statements, however, show that — despite OSF’s attempts to downplay its connections to USAID money — treating CEU and OSF as exclusively separate entities is blatant deception since Soros resides at the top echelons of both organizations.

In comments to MRC Business, Bongino Report Content Manager Matt Palumbo ripped apart OSF’s gaslighting on USAID:

This is common wordplay from George Soros - a distinction without a difference. He’s done this before when it came to his funding of rogue, weak-on-crime, district attorneys - such as having denied funding Chesa Boudin after he was ousted as San Francisco DA, or Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg when the Soros connection came under fire due to him targeting Donald Trump. The argument boiled down to nothing more than, ‘We didn’t fund them - the PAC we funded did!’ Only a liberal journalist could find this to be convincing, or be willing to pretend that it is.

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2025/03/04/art-deception-soros-empire-gaslights-connection-usaid