I grew up at a young age and remember seeing the logo on my dad's car. The logo Shield and handshake – Symbol of the United States International Development Organization or USAID.
At the time, we were living in Niger, West Africa, south of Sahara. My father, an educated agriculture scholar from Cornell, helped people there grow the land and grow millet, one of the few crops that can survive in harsh desert areas. My father took many joys in teaching Nigerians how to feed themselves from the rare resources they have available.
However, there was a constant grievance surrounding the money promised to USAID workers, which doesn't seem to have won it completely for those in the most needy.
The highest officials within Nigerian leadership at the time each gained a share from the top. By the time the funds flowed down to the villagers, it was often only a small part of what was promised. As a result, USAID workers like my father had to make it in time for what they received.
A few years later, when I was in Pakistan, Earthquake of 2005 So I remember seeing a USAID tent. They had no idea what they had done, as they did not coordinate with our main efforts to bring supplies and shelter to the mountainous regions of Kashmir before the harsh winter began. From what I can collect, the USAID workers in the tent are operating on their own, so we left them alone while recovering the victim's artefacts from under the tile rub.
There was a large survey while I was serving in Iraq. Computer Shipment Specifically, I'll save it for school children who suddenly disappear. USAID workers wanted to know where thousands of laptops disappeared. Well, they weren't at Marshlands in Basra, that's certainly true. Those people didn't even have electricity and there was much less internet.
In Afghanistan, female police officers were promoted and gender equality was strengthened. Many of these female officers were the Taliban's first targets after the Taliban easily seized control in Afghanistan. The tragic US withdrawal. While serving in Afghanistan, USAID remembers growing up, and bringing people to remote villages in my father's agency, Niger, Zaire, Guinea and Cameroon, bringing in what he needs. It reminded me of this. want.
In Pakistan, we wanted the winter blankets and tarps to last through the winter, rather than gay or transgender-affirming entertainment. In Iraq, they wanted stability rather than clouds. In Afghanistan, they wanted to be free from the oppressive Taliban, which did not allow women's voices to be heard in public.
People who have taken over USAID in recent years do not give to people who are obliged to basic human necessities such as food, water, shelters, but to make it seem like what America should look like It seems they are more interested in shaping the
The agency's arrogance is amazing. I was told in 2018 that USAID officials told his young cohort, “Don't worry about what Donald Trump wants. Do what you know is right. Wait for him.”
We discovered last week, Thank you to Elon Muskthat the agency actually became the slash fund on the left. In addition to spending $2.5 million for Serbia's DEI program, $70,000 for Irish DEI Musical, $47,000 for a Colombian transgender opera, $32,000 for a Peruvian transgender comic bookwe know now that USAID is giving millions Soros support companies.
As I learn every day of the new Trump administration, the handshake I remember as a child with the USAID logo seems like a slap in the face now. The left screamed Unelected officials like Elon Musk And his team clearly Waste, fraud, abuse, perhaps they should first look at unelected officials who ran USAID and spent taxpayer dollars to promote their pet projects.
Hung Cao was a retired Navy captain and served in special operations for 25 years. He is a refugee from immigrants from Vietnam to the United States after his family fled in 1975 just before Saigon's collapse. The CAO was the Republican US Senate candidate in 2024.
