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While we don’t agree on all issues, we wholeheartedly agree that USAID and America’s foreign assistance programs are vital to our interests, that the career men and women of USAID have served each of us well, and that it is the duty of the Administration and Congress to swiftly protect the Agency’s statutory role,
wrote Samantha Power, Gayle Smith, Andrew Natsios, J. Brian Atwood and Peter McPherson Failure to maintain the global engagement that foreign aid enables, to honor the men and women of our civilian service as we do those in the military, or weaken and even destroy the Agency is to the benefit of neither political party and the detriment of all Americans,
USAID may move, reorganize, and integrate certain missions, bureaus, and offices into the Department of State, and the remainder of the Agency may be abolished consistent with applicable law,
he told lawmakers earlier this week Congress needs to stand up and defend USAid. Conservatives have told us that they care about these issues for years,
This is showing that you can do a slash-and-burn to the American governmental apparatus, including foreign aid,
Joia Mukherjee, chief medical officer of the non-profit Partners in Health, told the Guardian We are the moral force of the world,
You know that what is being said about USAid is not true,
This is a dictatorship in the making,
Ed Markey, a senator from Massachusetts, told the crowd It puts us and the world in danger in a way it never has before,
said the contractor, who requested anonymity to protect their job It’s enormous – it affects all Americans, ... In global emergencies, they’re the first responders. [After earthquakes and tsunamis], they’re the ones who are there first. You see airplanes offloading supplies that say ‘from the American people’.”
she told the Guardian, before adding of USAid staff Let us work!” ... USAid! USAid!”
Protesters gathered near the Capitol under chilly, overcast skies and chanted We are in a very, very dire place,
Jeremy Konyndyk, a top USAid health official under Barack Obama and Joe Biden, told the crowd What’s happening is unconstitutional and illegal,
said Sharon Baker, who worked on grants and contracts for USAid for 11 years before retiring This is an example” of what the Trump administration can do to agencies like the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA
My best reading of the law is that although the president could direct greater coordination of USAID with the State Department and maybe even transfer some functions, he cannot unilaterally abolish the agency by executive order,
said Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School We’re left with very little recourse, which is unfortunate, because they’re going to lose a tremendous workforce, and at the end of the day, America doesn’t win. If USAID closes, America loses,
In response to my concerns, USAID has acted in an unacceptably deceptive and egregious manner. The agency’s attempts to thwart congressional oversight amount to exactly the type of gaslighting that the American people despise most and see so frequently from Washington,
As I’ve said before, sunshine is the very best disinfectant— now is the time to get to the bottom of USAID’s shady practices once and for all. I strongly support your efforts to overhaul this rogue federal agency and stand by ready to assist,
When approached with reasonable questions, bureaucrats and political appointees stated first that there was nothing to be concerned about. Subsequently, they took every measure possible to resist scrutiny or oversight while they pumped millions in American taxpayer dollars around the globe. One might assume they have something to hide,
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
