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The 'Girl Boss' Of USAID Has $22 Billion To Spend And A Tight Deadline
NPR ^
| 3/29/16
| Malaka Gharib
Posted on 02/05/2025 6:19:41 AM PST by JonPreston
They called her Mr. Smith.
When the newly installed USAID chief Gayle Smith was at a conference in Africa recently, the local leaders didn't recognize the gender of her name. So they gave her a "Mr. Smith" tag — which she now has on top of a bookshelf in her corner office at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, D.C.
The nameplate on her desk makes things clear. It says: "GIRL BOSS."
Being a boss anointed in the final months of a president's term is not an easy job. Three months ago, Smith took the top spot of the federal agency in charge of U.S. humanitarian projects like fighting Ebola, feeding refugees and distributing more than $22 billion this year in aid.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; billions; girlboss; usaid
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To: JonPreston
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posted on
02/05/2025 6:20:38 AM PST
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
She looks like she should be training eels to steal a mermaid’s voice.
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posted on
02/05/2025 6:22:16 AM PST
by
Repeat Offender
(While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
To: JonPreston
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02/05/2025 6:23:03 AM PST
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ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: dfwgator
Might be a lesbian. Hard to say for sure just from the photo
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02/05/2025 6:23:16 AM PST
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j.havenfarm
(24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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02/05/2025 6:24:52 AM PST
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Eli Kopter
(Gentle elves set light to lead the Faroes on the starry way from age to age - U. of Faroe Islands)
To: JonPreston
If Ann Richards was overweight.
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02/05/2025 6:25:24 AM PST
by
TornadoAlley3
( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
To: JonPreston
I replied l, in the grand tradition of FR, without reading the article. Now that I have read it, I see this article is almost 9 years old and she was replaced when Trump took office in 2017. Why are you showing us this now?
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02/05/2025 6:27:05 AM PST
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j.havenfarm
(24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: JonPreston
The 'Girl Boss' Of USAID Has $22 Billion To Spend And A Tight Deadline Does she still? Looks like it's shut down to me. At least on Friday. Who's gonna do the spending with her with no employees?
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02/05/2025 6:28:16 AM PST
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Alas Babylon!
(Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
To: JonPreston
The nameplate on her desk makes things clear. It says: “GIRL BOSS.”
Hopefully it now says “gone”.
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02/05/2025 6:28:40 AM PST
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sheana
To: dfwgator
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02/05/2025 6:28:50 AM PST
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SMARTY
(In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
To: JonPreston
You can’t hate these people enough
To: SMARTY
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02/05/2025 6:29:52 AM PST
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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02/05/2025 6:33:28 AM PST
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03A3
(If we can defund the police, we sure as hell can defund the FBI)
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To: j.havenfarm
15 posts, and your is the first to notice the. I wonder how many will get sucked in by this crap.
I wonder what this place would be like if everybody actually read the articles on which they so quickly posted their opinions - opinions usually asserted with a biblical level of certainty.
To: sheana
The 'Girl Boss' Of USAID Has $22 Billion To Spend And A Tight Deadline
NPR ^ | 3/29/16 | Malaka Gharib
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02/05/2025 6:39:43 AM PST
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Semper Vigilantis
(XX or XY, anything else is mental illness and should NOT be tolerated.)
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