What USAID does, and why Trump and Musk want to get rid of it

[Castanet News]

Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance to other countries....

[Mike_T]

the Trump administration’s latest appointment isn’t fit to run a bodega, let alone do the job he’s been offered at the State Department.

Darren Beattie, a former Trump speechwriter who was fired in 2018 for making a speech to white nationalists, has reportedly been appointed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to fill a key role as acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy.


how appropriate