DOGE Exposed USAID. Then DOGE Disappeared.

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The United States Agency for International Development began in 1961 as a civilian tool for competing with Soviet influence, folding scattered foreign aid into one agency beside the State Department. This video follows that Cold War mission through decades of economic aid, food programs, disaster relief, and democracy work, then into the 2025 audit that canceled most of it. It looks at how a foreign policy instrument became one of the largest streams of taxpayer money leaving the country, and why the second Trump administration made USAID the first target of its waste and fraud cuts. John F. Kennedy’s Foreign Assistance Act set the original brief: help poorer nations build economies, farms, health systems, and schools, and keep them aligned with the West. Later administrations widened USAID into global health, refugee support, and political development, with combined State and USAID requests running past $60 billion and USAID distributions peaking near $43.8 billion in fiscal 2023. Und

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