How USAID went woke and destroyed itself

USAID operated largely unnoticed by the US public. The organization is in the public eye and staffers aren't happy. The agency went woke over several years. Now, it could go broke, too.

Meanwhile, USAID burned its bridges to Congress that pays its budget. Agency officials refused scrutiny over its practices. Max Primorac, a senior research fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, worked at the U.S. Agency for International Development from 2018 to 2021. 

On his first day back in office, Trump issued an executive order halting most foreign aid actions asserting that "the United States foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values." Two weeks later, he blasted the agency for being "run by radical lunatics."