Posted on 07/02/2025 10:50:01 AM PDT by RandFan
George W Bush has issued a rare critique of Donald Trump over his shuttering of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The former president joined Barack Obama and U2 singer Bono in an emotional video call farewell with staff at the agency on Monday when it officially ceased operations.
After six decades, the humanitarian organisation created by former president John F Kennedy to promote US national security by boosting prosperity and goodwill abroad, is being absorbed into the State Department under the supervision of Marco Rubio.
Speaking to thousands of agency staff on the video conference, Mr Bush took a thinly veiled swipe at cuts to USAID’s HIV and aids programme. The initiative, launched under his Republican administration, is credited with saving 25 million lives around the world.
“You’ve showed the great strength of America through your work – and that is your good heart,’’ Mr Bush told agency staffers in a recorded message. “Is it in our national interests that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think it is, and so do you.”
USAID was one of the first agencies fiercely targeted by Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) cuts to government spending, with Elon Musk branding it a “criminal organisation”.
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Stupid program. Any aid was given to dictators. They used to take off the “From the USA” and changed it to their regime on wheat, rice, etc.
Soooo very sorry I ever voted for that guy. Ugh.
George, why don’t you go clear some brush on your ranch? How many good men died in Iraq because of you? When you were in the Texas Air National you seemed to have a propensity to not show up for work. Scared of Vietnam George?
We donated to him. Worked for him. He lost me early after he began his second term. He’s always been a stealth democrat and I doubt he’s EVER supported Trump.
Rare, BS.....
“Stay out of the Bushes”
Has this Bush totally lost h is mind?
Leave me alone you psychopath.
Yes what makes it worse he ran a conservative in 99/00 etc .and sounded ideal
He was totally corrupted by the office
Hey George. Glad u showed up.
Can we talk about your lies to get us involved in middle-east wars? How about the ‘patriot act’? Friggin commie bastard.
The George Bush and obama tax free foundations are sad.
No more taxpayer money laundered thru their “charities”.
I suspect he got caught up with the deep state movement to the left with the rest of the family. It was a betrayal of his strongest supporters. It was an eye opener for me.
Thank God that the Bush family dynasty has died out. They will no longer infect the body politic of this nation. We have been immunized by disclosure and truth.
For every nickel that went to humanitarian purposes 95cents of the USAID budget in recent times went to graft and corruption. Perhaps in Bush’s day more went to humanitarian purposes, but under Obama and Biden USAID was merely a slush fund for leftist causes and graft. The Bush administration never looked at the USAID budget the way the DOGE boys did
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