Most of those who are upset about the shutdown of USAID do not understand the facts or have their hand in the cookie jar.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was established by President John F. Kennedy through an executive order. USAID’s mission was to promote economic development, improve global health, support democracy, and provide disaster relief worldwide.
The bureaucrats who ran the Agency along with their Congressional friends had wide discretion as to who received the grants and for what purposes. There were few objective measures of what constituted success. So given human nature, a large share of the grants went to those with political influence or those who could make life for the USAID bureaucrats more pleasant. It was almost as if the Agency was designed to be corrupt.
