Brazil’s Attorney General’s Office asked federal police and prosecutors Thursday to investigate whether U.S. funded local groups to interfere in the country’s political debate and undermine the legitimacy of Supreme Federal Court, just three days before the presidential election.
Trump’s administration pushed through more than $175 million in grants from from the State Department’s Human Rights and Democracy Fund (HRDF) toward a list of grants supporting organizations and groups advancing a far-right agenda abroad with the Supreme Federal Court reportedly among the campaign’s targets, just before a fiscal-year deadline this week.
U.S. administration directed the money toward a slate of awards that includes anti-communism initiatives, support for white Afrikaner advocacy in South Africa, and a campaign targeting Brazil’s Supreme Court, according to documents reviewed on Wednesday byBritain’s The Guardian investigation.
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The request follows media reports that the U.S. government allocated one million dollars to a project aimed at financing organizations that challenge the Supreme Federal Court and oppose what the White House has characterized as judicial overreach by the court.
The Guardian report did not specify which organizations would receive the funds, but noted the Trump administration’s prior criticism of Brazilian Supreme Court rulings and its sanctions against Justice Alexandre de Moraes and other members of the court. The administration previously sanctioned Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes last year following lobbying from Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of the former Brazilian President.
Washington has also imposed tariffs on Brazilian products and opened investigations into alleged unfair trade practices, amid rising tensions between the two governments over allegations of U.S. interference in national electoral process. In July, Brazil denied visas to two State Department officials identified by The Washington Post as responsible for a strategy aimed at questioning the integrity of the country’s electoral system. A September report from Brazil’s intelligence agency, ABIN, further alleged that the U.S. intended to intervene in the October 4 presidential election in an effort to reshape Latin America’s political and economic orientation.
A reportagem publicada pelo The Guardian acende um importante alerta para a soberania brasileira.
Segundo o jornal, recursos do Human Rights and Democracy Fund, do governo dos Estados Unidos, estariam sendo redirecionados para financiar pautas conservadoras e de extrema direita…— Jorge Messias (@jorgemessiasagu) October 1, 2026
Text reads: “The publication of The Guardian raises an important alarm bell for Brazilian sovereignty. According to the newspaper, resources from the U.S. government’s Human Rights and Democracy Fund are being redirected to finance conservative and far-right agendas in different countries (…)”
Funds for European Allies
A separate $2 million program aimed at supporting what the documents describe as Western civilization allies would be restricted to groups in Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary and the Balkans taking anti-communist, natural-rights approaches, while another award would document what the administration calls democratic backsliding in Europe tied to migration and supranational legislation. A $1 million grant would also fund a journalism consortium aimed at challenging how certain outlets are classified as trusted sources, and $2 million would go toward early-warning networks intended to protect Christian communities in Nigeria.
The largest single grant, $40 million, went to an anticommunist organization, while a program so-called “Promoting Allies of Western Civilization” received $2 million, reportedly restricted to groups in Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary and the Balkans that reject what the funding documents describe as ideologically militarized human rights narratives. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Congress had approved the broader fund on a bipartisan basis to support human rights, warning that its use to promote far-right organizations in established democracies wastes resources and undermines U.S. relationships with democratic partners, including allies in Europe.
Governo Trump destina US$ 1 milhão a projeto que se opõe à atuação do STF no Brasil, diz jornal | Segundo o The Guardian, o Departamento de Estado liberou US$ 176,9 milhões para 43 iniciativas de direita e conservadoras em vários países pic.twitter.com/Nb5GJiSA56
— Estadão 🗞️ (@Estadao) October 1, 2026
Investigation Requested
Following The Guardian report and its connection to Brazil’s electoral timeline, the Attorney General’s Office warned of the seriousness of the allegations, sayingU.S. public funds appeared to have been directed toward financing networks and organizations inside Brazil aimed at interfering in political debate and destabilizing the country’s judicial institutions.
The agency formally requested an immediate investigation to identify those responsible and the recipients of the funds on Brazilian nation, warning that, if confirmed, the receipt of foreign capital to support coordinated attacks on national sovereignty and institutional functioning could point to a broader structure of external interference in Brazil’s internal affairs.
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