Yes, Anti-Trump "Protesters" Were Paid--by USAID

 When Trump cut off USAID dollars, there were lots of very good reasons, including this one.

 ...The Daily Caller reported in February 2025 that the State Department and USAID had awarded more than $27 million to the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center across several presidencies. Tides is the fiscal sponsor Democrats use when they do not want their name on the check. It funds groups that supply lawyers to people arrested at left-wing protests, including activists under federal investigation. A later Daily Caller review found the Tides Center reporting more government money in the year before Trump’s return than in any year of the prior decade, and sending $48,500 in 2024 to the Civil Liberties Defense Center, which represents Antifa-aligned protesters...

 ...USAID did not need to hand a protester a per diem to feed the machine. It trained the staff and then dumped them into it. The Washington Examiner found well over 100 USAID alumni working at Arabella-linked groups, Soros philanthropies, the DNC, the Center for American Progress, and Planned Parenthood. The Daily Wire counted 97 percent of reported USAID employee political donations in the 2024 cycle going to Democrats....

Instead, the protest MANAGEMENT was paid.

Remember the gray-haired old hags/bags and docile husbands of "No Kings"?  They women were being led by the nose by paid organizers; the men followed, hoping to get laid for being a good boy.

 ...The respectable wing of the same business is Indivisible. George Soros’s Open Society Foundations has given it $7.61 million since 2017, including a $3 million grant in 2023 for data and communications with participants in the No Kings protests. Indivisible held the permit for the main march at the Minnesota State Capitol. In December 2025, Senator Chris Murphy’s American Mobilization PAC sent Indivisible $100,000 in two payments. Murphy’s own site said the money was for training staff and volunteers, materials, recruiting, and permits, and for building “durable mass mobilization capacity.” A sitting Democratic senator put campaign money into the group coordinating anti-ICE unrest and then let the press call the crowds organic....

By no coincidence, South America's elections are tossing the Communists out in several countries, following the USAID funding cuts.

Not to worry; this is another story which will NOT be told by "the Press."