What is the purpose of the USAID?

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the principal U.S. agency to extend assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms.

Joining the Revolution this week is Kristina Drye, who was the speechwriter for Samantha Power, Administrator of USAID. Kristina goes into great detail as to why USAID matters, what the program did, and how our national security will be severely impacted by the shuttering of the agency.

She gives insight on what it was like to be in the building while DOGE agents were accessing the systems and working to shut the organization down.

Hopefully the world knows this isn’t exactly what the American people wanted.
Kristina Drye on Rational Revolution

Mark then gives his prediction for what the end goal is for all of this chaos we are currently seeing, comparing this to "an abusive relationship."

What we’ve been doing is just destroying those relationships that have taken generations to cultivate. - Mark Becker

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Kristina Drye

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The Impact of Losing USAID

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