Thursday, April 10, 2025

USAID Needed a Scalpel, Not a Chainsaw

 The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal published on 10 April 2025 a commentary titled "Surgery? Yes. Chainsaw? No. How Not to Reform the U.S. Government" by Tibor Nagy, until recently the acting Under Secretary of State for Management.

The author, an eyewitness to the process, explains that reforming the US Agency for International Development required the scalpel of a surgeon, not the chainsaw of a lumber jack.  He takes sharp issue with the approach Elon Musk and DOGE pursued in the dismantlement of the organization.