| How unstatesmanlike. President Bush, at least, was trained in good manners, and knows better. Poor President Obama was brought up by Communist spies, and so all he understands is power plays. Not that anyone cares what either of them think on the subject, as President Bush never mastered the Deep State and President Obama co-opted it, inasmuch as they were not his enthusiastic fellow travellers. |
[Daily Beast] Former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush have joined forces to shoot down President Trump’s "colossal mistake" to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The Trump administration cut around 90 percent of USAID’s foreign aid contracts during Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) rampage back in February. Musk oversaw the depletion of the workforce from 10,000 to less than 300.
The agency will be absorbed by the state department, where it will be replaced by a new organization called America First.
In a farewell video message to staffers on Monday, USAID’s last day before it is folded into the state department, the two former presidents decried its treatment by Trump. |