Friday, February 7, 2025

The Cost of the Trump Administration's Foreign Aid Debacle

 The Council on Foreign Relations published on 6 February 2025 a commentary titled "The Cost of the Trump Administration's Foreign Aid Debacle" by Larry Garber, former USAID mission director to the West Bank and Gaza.

This is a thoughtful look by a former senior USAID official at the implications of dismantling the organization.  It also highlights some of the positive initiatives made by former USAID administrator Mark Green (former Republican Representative from Wisconsin) during the first Trump administration when the agency was apparently not run by "radical lunatics."