I suspect few people outside the Washington nexus had ever heard of the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, until recently.
Yet this independent agency manages a budget of nearly $50 billion, which is more than the CIA and State Department combined. Under Joe Biden, its head was Samantha Power, Barack Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations.
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