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We anticipate that we will be a much smaller overall organization by the end of this fiscal year,
the relief agency’s president and CEO Sean Callahan told staff on Monday CRS is the Gospel at work and reflects the best of American values,
John Carr, former executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development, told the National Catholic Reporter I stand for everything that you stand for and that the church stands for.”
During the campaign, Trump told an interviewer [Trump] agreed we should shut it down,
Musk said during a live discussion on X Spaces This is not about getting rid of foreign aid. There are things that we do through USAID that we should continue to do that make sense. And we'll have to decide, is that better through the State Department, or is that better through something, a reformed USAID? That's the process we're working through."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News on February 3: I don't know about you. But as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going toward this crap. And I know the American people don't either. And that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do. To get the fraud, waste and abuse out of the federal government."
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters The disruption to health, food, and educational programs will roll back decades worth of progress in strengthening health systems, in improving educational attainment, and increasing economic development and will exacerbate migration as people try to flee violence, instability, and democratic backsliding in their home countries,
For decades, USAID bureaucrats believed they were accountable to no one — but that era is over,
Beyond the operational and technical, humanitarian assistance is about helping others. It's the impulse to deliver a meal to your friend who has cancer or donate to a food drive for victims of a hurricane. It's the belief that every life is worth saving and every human has a right to life with dignity,
You don’t fight every fight. You don’t swing at every pitch. And my view is — while I care about the USAID as a former ambassador — that’s not the hill I’m going to die on,
Part of the problem for the Democratic Party is that it has become a stalwart defender of institutions at a time when people are enraged at institutions,
A third of the eighth graders can’t read ... and now he wants to close the Department of Education?"
My heart is with the people out on the street outside USAID, but my head tells me: ‘Man, Trump will be well satisfied to have this fight,
said veteran strategist David Axelrod Twenty big cities, Aspen and Martha’s Vineyard—that’s what’s left of the Democratic Party,
former congressional candidate Adam Frisch said It is a really, really sad day in America. We are witnessing a constitutional crisis,
I worry that the American public is not going to rise up against this seizure of power if they see Democrats collaborating with Republicans on the floor of the Senate on a regular basis to pass legislation or support nominees,
I don't think that we should just let the hyperbole sit on the side, because when people hear the President of the United States say that there's corruption at USAID. When they hear Elon Musk say it's a criminal enterprise, and it goes uncontested by either the media or Democrats, they believe it. I mean, that's just an outright lie,
The focus has to be on Republicans right now and why they have been completely and utterly silenced,
The president of the United States does not have the power unilaterally to suspend all federal programs,
Right now our highest priority is making sure that democracy survives this assault on the Constitution,
