Former president makes thinly veiled swipe at US president’s cuts to HIV and aids initiative
George W Bush has issued a rare critique of Donald Trump over his shuttering of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The former president joined Barack Obama and U2 singer Bono in an emotional video call farewell with staff at the agency on Monday when it officially ceased operations.
After six decades, the humanitarian organisation created by former president John F Kennedy to promote US national security by boosting prosperity and goodwill abroad, is being absorbed into the State Department under the supervision of Marco Rubio.
The country is burning and his priority is foreign aid?
The entire world is burning. We are bound together, like it or not.
Wisely distributed foreign assistance directly contributes to our security and prosperity at home in the US.
Not in evidence.
Sure, I’ll just keep being slowly killed by my insurance company so that people I’ve never met can be treated better than I am. Sounds totally stable