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To hear critics describing, the dismantling of President Donald Trump of the American Bureau for International Development is a disaster. But take it from someone who worked at USAID for three years: fate was already sealed.
USAID, the US Government Vehicle to pay dozens of billions of dollars to foreign aid funded by taxpayers, is a disturbing story about a government agency that rises ideologically and both two -part political support in the congress and the confidence of the American people loses.
On his first day back at the office, Trump published a director sequence Stopping most of the foreign aid actions that claim that “the foreign help industry and bureaucracy of the United States are not tailored to American interests and in many cases antithetic for American values.” Two weeks later he destroyed the desk because he was ‘run by radical madmen’.
USAID has ‘demonstrated pattern of obstructionism’, claims Top Doge Republican in letter to Rubio
Trump appointed State Secretary Marco Rubio to merge his positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Rubio Fast accused USAID of ‘ranking insubordination’. So how did the agency become such a pariah?
The flag of the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, flies for the USAID office in Washington, Monday 3 February 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Cneta)
USAID was founded in 1961 to spread Soviet efforts to spread communism in developing countries, to switch former communist countries into American allies and to respond to global disasters such as earthquakes, epidemics, famine and war refugees. It did so well. But somewhere during the Clinton Administration, USAID began to promote radical social agendas, such as population control.
Under President Barack Obama, LGBT And climate Ideologies were added. President Joe Biden covered it with transgenderism, require That every foreign utility promotes this division stew, even when it came to food aid among starving refugees.
Institutional political culture would eventually be done crooked Far left, purified from conservatives and independents. USAID no longer represented America nor its values ​​and a taxpayer was financed harbor For radicals that are controlled by an industry of global elites consisting of former auxiliary officials and officials of earlier democratic party administrations.
In 2020, days after the George Floyd riots, 1,000 USAID employees demanded the agency ‘Black Lives Matter confirm’ and accused their own desk of ‘Systematic Racism’. More recently, another 1,000 USAID officials have published an open letter The defendation of the Israeli policy of Biden by ‘an immediate cessation -firing between the state of Israel and Hamas’, which would give the terrorists the opportunity to regroup and kill more Israelis.
Last year, when America began to break the buoys of dei orthodoxy, the aid industry doubled instead. The head of the Society of International Development, an association of auxiliary experts, has set up to “concentrate on Deia issues”. Interaction, a foreign helplobby, still pushed his Dei compact blaming “white supremacy” for racism in international development. The congress punished it by blocking for receiving US government funds.
In the meantime, USAID burned its bridges to the congress that pays its budget. Agency officials refused control of his practices. In 2023, Senator Jodi Ernst, R-IIWA, now chairman of the Doge Caucus, to know the overhead costs of organizations and companies to see if they were over-loading Taxpayers to carry out the USAID programs.
She was repeatedly Stonewalled and her staff threatened. In the end she discovered that half of the aid funds were spent on overhead. A government audit the following year showed that USAID could not take overhead costs of more than $ 142.5 billion in prices. Foreign help became a huge financial blessing for progressives when ordinary Americans had difficulty paying their bills.
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, promised To work “closely” with Secretary Rubio to USAID in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Na Risch, a long -term supporter of Pepfar, the Global HIV/AIDS program, Was burned by a helplobby that had wrongly assured him that the annual program of millions of dollars was not illegal abortion. It had.
Samantha Power led the American Bureau for International Development to the crisis. File: Power testifies during its confirmation hearing for the Senate Committee Foreign Relations on March 23, 2021 (Photo by Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)
Brian Mast, chairman of the House of Foreign Affairs. The list of stupidity had grown for a long time.
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Learned lesson? No. On the day that the USAID head office was closed, the supporters gathered in protest. Featured speakers were representatives. Ilhan Omar, the Pro-Hamas Progressive from Minnesota, and Jamie Raskin, who in 2021 managed President Trump’s fake accusation of President Trump in the house. The deafness of the political tone in the aid community is amazing.
With conservatives that now control the White House, the US Senate and the American House of Representatives, it is clear that the tool has made a bad ideological gamble. Now USAID is eliminated. The supporters of the supporters about USAID have fallen an “important national security tool” on deaf ears.
In the meantime, USAID burned its bridges to the congress that pays its budget. Agency officials refused control of its practices.
Rubio must now separate the wheat from the KAF, which retain those foreign utilities that reflect and connect the American values ​​with the American interests, especially in the era of combating communist China.
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He must replace corrupt agencies of the United Nations, partisan NGOs and for for-profit companies with a new cast of care providers that cost less, better results, such as local faith-based groups and companies, and abandon ideological excess. He must switch our foreign aid approach from endless expenses to promote trade and investments, the proven characteristics of relieving poverty and ending the need for help.
It is a discouraging task, but for a long time.
