‘We Are Seeing Complete Destruction’: The Damage Done by the U.S.A.I.D. Freeze
When President John F. Kennedy asked Congress to establish the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1961, he rooted its mission in America’s strategic interests and its “moral obligations as a wise leader and good neighbor,” recognizing that poverty and instability threaten America’s prosperity and security. That convergence of interests and values, upheld across Republican and Democratic administrations, is now at risk.
U.S.A.I.D. is not a perfect agency. No government...