What is USAID and why is Trump targeting it?
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🗓️ 7 February 2025
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USAID funds both vital aid and questionable projects, but its lack of oversight has drawn criticism. President Trump’s push to rein it in raises questions of accountability. Waste and corruption exist alongside good work, but does the good excuse the flaws? Just as governance demands integrity, so too does faith call for growth in all areas of our lives. Today we discuss the singular fruit of the spirit and how the Holy Spirit uses it to transform our hearts.
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| 0:51.2 | It's Friday, February the 7th, 2025. |
| 0:55.1 | Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. |
| 0:57.8 | Today's article is written by Denison Forum's senior editor for theology, Dr. Ryan Denison, |
| 1:03.6 | and narrated by Chris Elkins. |
| 1:07.8 | Quote, for decades, the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, has been |
| 1:14.9 | unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the ridiculous and, in many |
| 1:21.4 | cases, malicious pet projects of entrenched bureaucrats with next to no oversight." |
| 1:28.3 | This is how President Donald Trump recently described the agency overseeing the vast |
| 1:34.4 | majority of the government's humanitarian efforts. |
| 1:37.6 | Those thoughts have been echoed across numerous press conferences, television appearances, |
| 1:41.8 | and posts on social media by both Trump and people |
| 1:45.3 | working closely with him on this issue. However, given that USAID distributed somewhere in the |
| 1:51.4 | neighborhood of $72 billion of assistance in 2023, the last year for which we have concrete numbers, |
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