Interview with a former Director of USAID. He established PEPFAR. This one caught my attention. What? My mother did development. I knew these people. A lot of them were foreign nationals who work for USAID/USG.
It’s illegal and it’s outrageous. They have no right to abolish an agency, a statutory agency in the federal government. Congress appropriated money for us to spend, and we’re spending it now, right? So what do you think happens now? I hope someone will sue them, because if this goes to court, they’re going to lose. And that’s why Marco Rubio said that he’s the new head of USAID. That’s not what Musk said. Musk said we’re abolishing USAID. He didn’t say we’re merging it into State. That is criminal. They can’t abolish the aid program without a vote of Congress.
They also took down all of the plaques [honoring murdered USAID officials]. We had a wall. I had it installed myself. For every USAID officer who’s been murdered in the last 70 years, we have a plaque commemorating them. They took the whole thing down. That is a desecration of sacred space. For people who sacrifice themselves for the United States to be treated that way is outrageous.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/04/elon-musk-usaid-00202409
This could go a lot of threads, but fuck it. I don't have words. @956 Worldwide