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I’m a physician who was suddenly laid off from USAID last month after Elon Musk fed "USAID into the wood chipper." I should be livid about what Musk is doing to my former employer. But I’m not; I’m a whistleblower who worked at USAID for eight years, and Musk is (mostly) right about USAID’s dysfunction.
As USAID’s fate to be shrunk and subsumed into the State Department seems all but sealed, once the Republican-led Congress passes a law to legitimize it, two predictable debate positions have emerged. Musk and the Republicans say "USAID is a criminal organization" full of "radical left lunatics" that wastes taxpayer dollars, while the Democrats and USAID staff say USAID nobly performs vital life-saving work. The truth, as usual, is somewhere in between, but nobody disputes the criticisms regarding waste.
Musk colorfully said of USAID, "It’s not an apple with a worm in it; we have actually just a ball of worms." I suggest instead that USAID is better described as an...
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