Of All the Federal Programs to Cut, Why Touch USAID? [View all]

[Daleuhlmann]

Of all the cuts Trump has ordered so far to federal programs, this one may be the cruelest and most unnecessary of all. Consider USAID's great humanitarian work and the jobs it creates around the world for Americans, a purely non-partisan and non-political operation. Plus, USAID operation cosrs account for a comparatively miniscule fraction of the total amount of money that this country spends yearly on foreign aid anyway! To drastically cut this program to the bone is both heartless and insane. Moreover, this is yet another ill-conceived action by our renegade president, since only Congress can, by law, dismantle this pogram. It, like some of his other recent, rash ventutes, cannot be done through executive action. Do not his lawyers inform of this fact before they draft his orders?


https://www.newsweek.com/federal-Dersworkers-sue-trump-usaid-2027654