The Trump administration's cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development or USAID have reverberated around the world.

The agency, which operated in over 100 nations and employed thousands of people, has been virtually eliminated.

In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, William Brangam has been working on a series about USAID, and he joins us now.

William, good to see you.

Hi.

So this is a huge agency we're talking about, spent roughly $40 billion in taxpayer funds every

year.

It's a big arm of American foreign policy.

Tell us about what you've been reporting on.

The big picture here is that USAID's goal, and this has been the bipartisan goal since its inception,

is that this is in some ways an expression of America's moral obligation.

We're a superpower. We are on the global stage and we ought to help people in need.

But it's also served the secondary national security role, very specific one, that this

is soft power at its best. It's burnished America's image with people all over the world. It

has helped keep an eye on infectious diseases and deal with climate crises. It has supporters,

say, tamped down drug trafficking and violent extremism, basically stopping threats before they come to America.

That's the big picture.

But producer Molly Knight Raskin and I wanted to look very specifically at what USAID's work means for some very specific and vulnerable communities.

So tonight's report is from Kenya.

Tell us more about that, what the focus is.

Tonight's focus is on HIV and AIDS.

And Kenya has been doing a pretty good job thus far,

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