Block Trump’s $10 Billion Board of Peace Scam
Trump’s Board of Peace would create a $10 billion slush fund with weak oversight and broad personal control. Congress must block this power grab now.
Friends, the most dangerous abuses of power do not always arrive with tanks or sirens. Sometimes they arrive wrapped in words like peace, order, and reconstruction. That is what makes Trump’s so-called Board of Peace so alarming. At its first meeting on February 19, Trump announced that the United States would contribute $10 billion to the board after saying other nations had pledged another $7 billion. But Reuters reported that he did not explain where the U.S. money would come from or whether he would even seek approval from Congress. That is not responsible leadership. That is an attempted blank check. And no president should be allowed to treat public money like a personal slush fund for a vanity project branded as global peace.
What makes this even more disturbing is the structure of the board itself. The Board of Peace includes Israel but no Palestinian representatives, even though it is supposed to help govern Gaza’s future. Carnegie’s analysis says the charter gives Trump extraordinary personal power: he can set agendas, break tie votes, interpret disputes, create or dissolve subsidiary bodies, appoint the commander of the stabilization force, and even choose his successor while holding the chairmanship indefinitely. Carnegie also reports that Trump alone selects the Executive Board, which controls budgets, financial accounts, and disbursements, with those decisions remaining under his “direction and control.”1 That is not peacebuilding. That is centralized power wearing a humanitarian costume. If one man controls the money, the structure, the appointments, and the mission, this is not diplomacy. It is domination.
The funding rules make the whole thing look even more like a pay-to-play cartel than a legitimate international body. Member states are limited to three-year terms unless they contribute $1 billion in cash, which allows them to stay on longer. In other words, influence is not earned through legitimacy, representation, or accountability. It is bought. Reuters also reported that major allies and powers including Britain, France, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, China, and Russia have not joined, with Brazil and Mexico citing the absence of Palestinians from the board. A body that claims to bring peace while excluding Palestinians and selling longer membership to billion-dollar buyers is not building justice. It is monetizing control. 2
And the financial safeguards appear dangerously weak. Carnegie reported that negotiations are underway for a private account for the board that would be accessible by the chairman and his designees on the Executive Board, while the charter lacks clear oversight, auditing mechanisms, and conflict-of-interest rules.3 Representative Jamie Raskin accused the arrangement of concealing legal and financial structures designed to funnel money to Trump for unilateral use and called it an “unsupervised international slush fund.”4
Congress must act now. Block the money. Demand hearings. Refuse every appropriation. Humanitarian aid and reconstruction should go through transparent, accountable institutions that center the people of Gaza, not through an Orwellian machine built to glorify Trump and concentrate power. Peace without accountability is propaganda. And this scam must be stopped before one more taxpayer dollar is handed over.
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Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United
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