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The Big Ben Show

What Is Going On With USAID?

The Big Ben Show

Fox News Radio

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.5576 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Ben analyzes the complexities of the USAID and how President Trump's plans for the agency will impact American interests abroad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Obviously, the unexpected USAID battle is not something that was telegraphed by President

0:49.8

Donald Trump when he was running as a candidate this time around.

0:54.1

While USAID and foreign aid generally has been something that he's criticized in the past, Donald Trump when he was running as a candidate this time around.

0:54.4

While U.S. aid and foreign aid generally has been something that he's criticized in the past,

0:59.1

it really was not in the top priority list of things that you expected to have in the first

1:03.7

hundred days of his new term become such a major controversy to the point that the

1:09.3

media and democratic politicians would react with such

1:12.9

vociferous degrees.

1:14.8

And that's something that I think is interesting about this new term in the sense that

1:19.5

there are so many things that the president has promised that he would do over the course

1:24.3

of the past several years, if given the chance to run things from the White House once again,

1:29.8

that we honestly, I think, stopped paying attention to a certain degree to some of them.

1:34.5

We were focused so much on issues related to foreign affairs, the economy, national security, and the border,

1:41.5

that some of these other things that have been promised and promised routinely

1:45.6

by presidential candidates from the Republican Party over the past several decades really

1:50.4

faded into the background. Now that he's back in office, these things are happening and they're

1:55.0

happening very quickly. This new step when it comes to the battle over USA has certainly pulled Democrats together

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