President Donald J. Trump, alongside Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has officially dismantled USAID — a bloated, taxpayer-funded foreign aid agency that long served as a playground for globalists and career bureaucrats.
The decision marks a major victory for American taxpayers and a decisive end to one of Washington’s most expensive and least accountable international spending programs.
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In a video message to laid-off USAID staff, former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama — joined by left-wing activist and U2 frontman Bono — lashed out at Trump and praised the agency’s now-unemployed operatives.
“Gutting USAID is a travesty,” Obama said. “It’s some of the most important work happening anywhere in the world.”
Bush added that the staffers had shown “America’s good heart,” while lamenting the dismantling of an agency he once used to push AIDS initiatives in Africa.
The message, not released to the public, was played internally for departing staff, according to the Associated Press.
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