USAID: Pages 285 – 311
USAID and Budget
Page: 286 – The next conservative Administration should scale back USAID’s global footprint by, at a minimum, returning to the agency’s 2019 pre–COVID-19 pandemic budget level. It should deradicalize USAID’s programs … (see DEI)
CONCLUSION
The next conservative Administration will have a unique opportunity to realign U.S. foreign assistance with American national interests and the principles of good governance and more accurately reflect the U.S. taxpayer’s unmatched charitable desire to help those in need. It can build on a strong baseline of conservative reforms undertaken by the Trump Administration to counter Communist China’s strategy of world domination. However, this will require that bold steps are taken on Day One to undo the gross misuse of foreign aid by the current Administration to promote a radical ideology that is politically divisive at home and harms our global standing.
Action Taken: SHUT IT DOWN
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/usaid-missions-overseas-ordered-shutdown-by-friday/
Summaryand commentary
Over 25 pages were devoted to USAID and how to transform it. He just shut the whole thing down.
Trump exceeded expectations by the creators of Project 2025
- Trump did thy bidding for Project 2025 by shutting down the agency.
- Related: Trump did thy bidding for DEI by stopping all DEI everything and sending letter to corporations to do the same.
Done is haste: This was done with the directive to stop everything right now, no slow ramp down time or chance for anyone to adjust. Another example of bad governance and no regard for our commitments or reasonable timeframes.
America reneges again: This is another example of now we have made commitments and then, with little warning at all, stop it all. That shows that the USA can not be trusted to hold our side of an agreement in the international stage.
Where is the money going? The President does not have the ability to re-appropriate funds allocated by congress. Isn’t shutting down the agency re-allocating it by default? Where is the money that Congress appropriated going?
USAID was created by federal law and is funded by Congress.