Posted on 02/06/2025 4:02:42 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The former boss of the doomed United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has defended its record after it was branded a 'criminal organization' by Elon Musk.
Samantha Powers' entire department was dismantled by the DOGE as part of Musk's attempts to trim the fat on federal government spending.
USAID was created during the cold war to provide humanitarian relief overseas and has been overseen by Powers since 2021.
During that time, she said the agency has been, 'on the frontline of some of the hardest challenges our country faces'.
However, her opponents have accused the department of wasteful spending. The White House claims millions was given to advance diversity in Serbia, a trans opera in Colombia and an LGBT comic in Peru among other causes.
The president's envoy Richard Grenell called for an investigation into Powers who he accused of using tax dollars to fund, 'crazy, radical programs and far left activists'.
But in a Tuesday interview with The Late Show's Stephen Colbert, she outlined some of the life-saving humanitarian work USAID was involved in.
'The Core Fact is programs that were running, that people were depending on in some cases for life saving medicine, like medicine if you have HIV that keeps you alive quite literally,' Powers explained.
'Or if you're in Sudan and you have a child who's wasting away because of malnutrition a miracle paste a peanut paste that USAID provides brings that kid back from the brink of death, all of those programs are shuttered.'
She also warned the agency's shutdown will have a destabilizing effect on geopolitics, as Russia and China seek to plug the gaps caused by the withdrawal in funding in exchange for influence in foreign countries.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“...like medicine if you have HIV that keeps you alive quite literally,’ Powers explained”
The ho shouldn’t have tried to make this craphole better with my tax dollars. She should have been getting a pretty good paycheck with her job and also had access to a lot of other people’s money. The could have used that.
<><>The president’s envoy Richard Grenell called for an investigation into Powers who he accused of using tax dollars to fund, ‘crazy, radical programs and far left activists’. <><>
AT LAST! She IS one crazy, radical, far left activist.
Get it done quickly or she will slip right out of Grenell’s fingers and head back to Ireland.
WHY isn’t she arrested???
The president’s envoy Richard Grenell called for an investigation into Powers who he accused of using tax dollars to fund, ‘crazy, radical programs and far left activists’.“
Ric is Luca Brasi. Things will get done!
Uh Huh. Right.
She was making the world a better place, alright - for the communist POS grifters who stole billions from American taxpayers. Also known as DEMOCRATS!
Just stop lying Alt Left political/media machine. We have the receipts
But just for the sake of argument imagine that what she said was true
The US Government has NO business spending $40,000,000,000 around the world then turning around to US Citizens who lives have been destroyed by fired, hurricane, tornado or fire “here we got this $700.00 check for ya”.
Alt leftists, you want to do “humanitarian” work, join an NGO and get the billionaire fat cats that own your political party to fund you
Just as long as he doesn’t end up sleeping with the fishes.
“a miracle paste a peanut paste that USAID provides brings that kid back from the brink of death,”
Is she talking about peanut butter?
Better for ‘Rats, just not the rest of us.
Perp-walk time for Samantha Power, Irish Marxist CIA Asset.
“rather than, say, malaria”
Whatta ‘bout sharia?
Exactly...updating my tagline
Dear USAID flunkie, exactly how is producing propaganda to encourage a regime change in America good? For anyone? Anywhere? You’re so fired!
Note that she brings up HIV rather than, say, malaria.”
As l would expect this wretched female has been an anti american leftist globalist for decades. Leave it to the rats to put her at the head if USAID perfect
She should have immediately arrested for money laundering, human trafficking and outright treason for aiding and abetting a huge foreign invasion of our country.
Her head needs to roll.....
Is she talking about peanut butter?
And it's only $500 per serving, err I mean, dose!
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