“USAID is the organization, which transferred black money to Georgia and other countries for organizing revolutions, and disorder,” said Guram Macharashvili, Executive Secretary of the People’s Power party.

According to Macharashvili, USAID’s money transfers damaged Georgia-US relations. He noted that Speaker Shalva Papuashvili met the organization’s leadership and requested them to disclose where they spent money but received a refusal.

“When we are accused of making anti-American statements and tarnishing Georgia-US relations, now it is clear who actually damaged them. It was USAID’s incorrect money transfers that served as the ground for damaging Georgia-US relations. This is the goal for which the current US administration bans and subjects to control foreign aid not to tarnish the US reputation,” Macharashvili stated.

The MP further stated that the Georgian government always reiterated that it had no problems either with America or the American people.

“We said that we faced problems with the previous US administration, who did bad things even for America. American people decided to bring the current administration into power that said that it would bring forth the US reputation and would establish partnership relations with other countries,” he said.

The Trump administration is moving to strip a slimmed-down U.S. Agency for International Development of its independence and put it under State Department control, two sources familiar with the discussions said on Friday, in what would be a significant overhaul of how Washington allocates U.S. foreign aid, Reuters reported on January 31.