What happens when you take decades of American development work — the programs that fed families, kept clinics open, and gave people reasons not to flee their homes — and throw it all into the wood chipper? That’s exactly what happened to USAID in 2025. In this episode, I dig into what was lost, why it matters for people abroad and here at home, and what it says about how power is being used in Washington today. 

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