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Samantha Power: I Ran U.S.A.I.D. Killing It Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere. (www.nytimes.com)
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http://archive.today/2025.02.08-210523/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/opinion/usaid-trump-samantha-power.html

"Ms. Power was the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development in the Biden administration.

"We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in U.S. history. Less than three weeks into Donald Trump’s second term, he, Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have halted the U.S. Agency for International Development’s aid programs around the world."

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[–] Turbonics@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They are starting to shut down Kurdish concentration camps for women and children in Syria ran with USAID money. The horror