The quiet alliance between George W. Bush and Barack Obama over USAID is less about nostalgia and more about a brutal reckoning with what America chooses to be. Bush, who once launched the massive AIDS relief efforts in Africa, now watches a program credited with saving 25 million lives dismantled in the name of “efficiency.” Obama calls it a calamity, warning that future leaders will realize too late what has been lost.
On the other side, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio celebrate the end of what they describe as a bloated “global NGO industrial complex.” To them, USAID was a haven for radicals and waste, not a lifeline for fragile democracies and dying patients. As its responsibilities are folded into the State Department, the question is no longer just how America spends its money abroad, but whether it still believes that compassion is part of its national interest at all.
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