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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Nailed on Bush being a THEM.
Thank you!
I could tell how disappointed Rush was. But the machinations he went through were too heartbreaking. I’ll take a straight up enemy any day over a week kneed RINO apologist like Bush. It took a while to come to grips with how terrible Bush was.
Wasn’t George Bush “Hitler” before Trump was Hitler?
Did you vote for Obama?
No he isn't
Still trying to impress his buddy, the commie Kenyan.
Bush will always be “a sorta hero” to me.
He prevented Al Gore and John ‘EFFIN Kerry from ever living in the White House!
That’s all, but it’s History!
AMFAR should be totally defunded. Why should U.S. taxpayers pay for HIV drugs for African sexual deviants. Africa has oil, gold, diamonds, rare earths, the works! Sell them and buy your own damn drugs.
Nobody cares what Bush thinks ... because he is so poor at it.
It was a choice. Bush or Gore, and the latter was unacceptable. Because of a retarded Libertarian (but I repeat myself!) a recount was needed in Florida that should have been a big Bush win. Am I supposed to regret not backing Sore/Loserman? NO.
With Gore or Kery, we would have experienced the last four years of the Biden Administration.
Open borders.
Climate change crap.
Bush didn't do anything about the borders. But he was good on oil. No EV mandate (although we did not have the technology for it at the time).
100%. Good points.
It’s funny how often we’re reduced to choosing two sides of the same coin:
Bush or Clinton - same coin
Clinton or Dole (Kang? Or Kodos?) - same coin
Bush or Gore (the Supremes put an end to the re-re-recount) - same coin
Bush or Kerry - same coin
Obama or McCain (Hawaii? Or Panama?) - same coin
Obama or Romney - same coin
Hillary! Or Trump? - Finally! A CHOICE!
Trump or Biden (the People chose Trump, Supremes punted, and the States sided with the mail-in ballots) - Another choice
[Whoever was behind Biden and Harris] or Trump - A choice and the clearest one in my lifetime
Trump has always been the sane alternative and the champion of We the People. I hope we still have real choices after he leaves office.
Yes
I stole That!
Thank you, isthisnickcool, for this glorious short video of the Bushes being utterly defeated in the Texas legislature.
Excellent!
“Rare critique”
lol That drunk is in the tank with democrats.
They sucked as candidates. I didn’t vote for either. My vote didn’t count in TN anyway. They both won the state big.
Can’t remember who I voted for. Wrote one in I think.
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