WASHINGTON (AP) – Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W.
Monday was the last day of an independent body of the sixty-year-old humanitarian and development organization founded by President John F. Kennedy as a peaceful way to promote U.S. national security by promoting goodwill and prosperity abroad.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to absorb it to the State Department on Tuesday.
The former president and Bono spoke at thousands of video conferences with the U.S.A.D. community known as a closed-end event to allow the privacy of political leaders and others, sometimes angry and often crying remarks. Part of the video is shared with the Associated Press.
They expressed their gratitude to the thousands of USAID staff who have lost their jobs and their lives. Their agency is the first and worst-hit government referees for President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Ally Elon Musk, where employees were suddenly locked in systems and offices and were terminated by mass emails.
Trump claims the agency is run by “radical left madman” and prevails with “huge fraud.” Musk called it a “criminal organization.”
Addressing a recorded statement, Obama provided assurances to the aid and development workers, some listening from overseas.
“Your work is important and will be important for generations,” he told them.
Obama largely maintained a low public image during Trump’s second term and avoided criticizing Trump’s major changes in plans and priorities at home and abroad.
“It is a tragedy to deceive the USDA, it is a tragedy, because it is some of the most important work that happens anywhere in the world,” Obama said. He attributed not only to USDA, but also to USDA as a major factor in global economic growth, which has made some aid countries the U.S. market and trading partners.
The former Democratic president called Trump’s demolition of the US Agency for International Development a “huge mistake” that would hurt the United States and predicted that “sooner or later, leaders on both sides of the aisle will realize how much you need.”
Asked about comments, the State Department said it would introduce the department’s foreign aid successor to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which will be called the United States first this week.
“The new procedures will ensure proper oversight and every tax spent will help improve our national interests,” the department said.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) oversees programs around the world to uproot and save lives for conflicts in Sudan, Syria, Gaza and elsewhere, and sponsors the “Green Revolution” that revolutionizes modern agriculture and curbs hunger and famine, prevents disease outbreaks, promotes democracy and development, and provides wealthy funds and development, allowing the nation and people to climb poverty.
Bush also spoke in the recorded message, as he went straight into a landmark cuts to HIV and HIV programs, which began with his Republican administration and praised the lives of 25 million people around the world.
Both parties have cut the popular Presidential AIDS relief emergency program (called Pepfar) from Congress, which has helped save a lot of money for the program. But cuts and changes in rules reduce the amount of life-saving care.
“You have demonstrated the great power of the United States through your work, and that’s your kindness. I think so, you,” Bush told the U.S. agency staff.
Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former Colombian President Juan Manual Santos, and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield also spoke with staff.
The same is true for humanitarian workers, including an 8-year-old who was frightened in a Liberian refugee camp, talked about the welcome appearance of the U.S. International Development staff. A World Food Program official vows to pass SOBS and one day the U.S. aid mission will come back.
Bono, a humanitarian advocate in Africa and elsewhere, was declared a “surprise guest” with shadows and hats.
He jokingly praised the staff at AID as “secret agents of international development” to acknowledge the low-key nature of the informal gathering on Monday in the AID community.
Bono sometimes cried when he recited a poem he wrote to the institution and its dirty. He talked about children who died of malnutrition, a reference to millions of people said by Boston University researchers and other analysts, as the United States cut funding for health and other programs abroad.
“They call you a liar. When you are our best,” Bono said.
