Of All the Federal Programs to Cut, Why Touch USAID?

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9. It's even more harmful than that

Government humanitarian aid is *always* done for purpose. It's never pure generosity.

I don't know what we get in exchange for any particular donation or mission, but I guarantee some business is getting a license, some military favor is granted, we're helping some political leader who will then return the favor many times over, etc.

We don't go around touting the value of everything we gamer in exchange, but I guarantee it's more than the cost of the program

And *that* is why it always had bipartisan support.

Only evil people who want to hurt America would kill this program.