Politico’s must-read report uncovering the events that led to President Trump’s astonishing near-total shutdown of USAID
‘It’s like we’re in the Soviet Union’ To sum it up, USAID officials went ahead and disbursed $153 million in payments for completed work, all while a funding freeze mandated by Trump was in place, which sent acting agency head Peter Marocco into a frenzy. How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in … [Read more…]