Barack Obama and George W. Bush have united with staffers of USAID to slam Donald Trump, calling the DOGE-assisted dismantling of the agency a ‘colossal mistake.’
Monday was the last day of independence for the six-decade-old humanitarian and development organization, created by President John F. Kennedy as a peaceful way of promoting U.S. national security by boosting goodwill and prosperity abroad.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered USAID – which Trump infamously called a ‘left-wing scam’ – absorbed into the State Department on Tuesday.
The former presidents and U2 singer and activist Bono spoke with thousands in the USAID community in a videoconference, which was billed as a closed-press event to allow political leaders and others privacy for sometimes angry and often teary remarks.
They expressed their appreciation for the thousands of USAID staffers who have lost their jobs and life’s work.
Their agency was one of the first and most fiercely targeted for government-cutting by the president and his billionaire ally Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency, with staffers abruptly locked out of systems and offices and terminated by mass emailing.
Trump claimed the agency was run by ‘radical left lunatics’ and rife with ‘tremendous fraud.’ Musk called it ‘a criminal organization.’
Obama, speaking in a recorded statement, offered assurances to the aid and development workers, some listening from overseas.
Their slush fund is no longer!
Another 4th of July is done.
How do I express what I’m seeing on Delmarva?
The dirty stinking commie/socialist/marxists are destroying everything.
I can remember when the places downtown in all the various eastern shore downtowns were filled to capacity, cars everywhere, boats on the rivers, airplanes at the airports, bars and restaurants were filled with people.
Am I the only one seeing how the people in the three counties that rule this miserable state are fishing down the economic food chain and destroying the entire financial ecosystem?
Don’t you people see how many businesses have fled this state?
How many hard working people have left?
The majority of those that remain are lazy and shifltess, their minds filled with drugs that destroy work ethic and weaken their intellect.
That which controls. this state can only feed and destroy, sucking the marrow from the bones of a once successful civilization.
They leave in their wake only misery, filth, and destruction.
Name on place in the world that they control that is successful?
Last one out turn off the lights, I’m out.
Late – 11:07 p.m. – You aren’t wrong by any stretch. The democrats of late (last 5-8 years) simply choose absolutely bizarre viewpoints to make a stand on, and when those policies turn out to be the train wrecks we all see them for, they scream that anyone with common sense that speaks up against them is/are the problem.
Vote Republican. They aren’t perfect, but they are sane.