Many are celebrating how the Trump administration sent the “Department of Government Efficiency” grim reaper after the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Some believe it is a blow to US meddling and regime change efforts that frequently lead to instability and conflict across the globe. Others are doing a happy dance because they say USAID was wasteful spending on a whole range of items, including liberal-DEI projects around the world.

Could they both end up being disappointed? As Lambert pointed out in his Monday post, “USAID is an agency established by Congress; Elon can’t just abolish it.”  And it looks like the Trump team doesn’t intend to abolish it but rather rehouse and rebrand it.

Let’s first take a look at what’s going on with USAID before turning to any potential larger implications for US foreign policy.

President John F. Kennedy created USAID using an executive order in

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