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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Many supported him here and worked their ass off to get him elected and this is how he repays them.
He went past betraying YOU a long time ago.
If you want to recant your support and haven't already then you have another chance and another thread.....
“Ah, shut up!”—Ronald Reagan
Obama and Bush the leaders of the Uniparty.
We are back to a two party system.
Us and them.
Bush is them.
Eventually we’ll get the political infrastructure to be more accurate in party delineation.
Of course he would criticize Trump over USAID. The Bush Republicans had their snouts in the trough almost as much as the Dems.
He’s a lot like rand.
Oh Bush knows he gave us Obama
It’s not gone...the fraud has been found and the agency has been merely relocated to another division of the government...i.e. it is no longer a stand alone.
Only thing missing was the circus clowns.
I remember when FOX News sat in a DOGE meeting and one of the DOGE-boys pointed out that over 90% of the money USAID was allocated to do good never got out of DC.
Sorry, W, but it’s time for that to stop.
Go back to your ranch, Bushie.
I threw my “Christmas Cards” George W and Laura in the trash. What a putz!
It’s funny you say it but it’s true
How many officials, judges etc. owe some loyalty to them?
It must be a lot in terms of “hold overs”. You cant/ rid of them all
Ha...I just ran across one yesterday and did the same!
Mr. Bush who is your Organ Grinder?
I see they have you completely trained and conveniently neutered. Who’s holding your little braided leash? Your “Good Friend” Michelle?
What has W said in the past 10 years that isn’t a criticism of Trump?
I am not fn of USAID. I think a lot of people forget that way back in the day it was just another way to say, “CIA.”
That said, the work that was done to help prevent AIDs in Africa during the Bush administration literally saved millions of lives. Mostly those of women and babies. AIDs was NOT a disease of the gay culture in Africa. Without that work that mess would have spread further into Europe and the US.
We can hate a lot of the stuff Bush did. This and the work they did on preventing malaria were worthy of Nobel prizes.
‘He’s due for the FAFO treatment.
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