Of all the ways that the US has been systematically undoing the goodwill and soft power it has built over past decades, the hasty effort by the Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE,” to eliminate nearly all US foreign assistance has left an unimaginable trail of destruction in its wake. Self-defeating and “pennywise, pound foolish” don’t even begin to describe it.
In this podcast, I speak with three USAID experts (Sonia Gloss, Maeve Quigley, and Karla Segovia) who share their journeys from the trenches of what they accomplished, what has been lost, and how we should look ahead to what’s next.
Please tune in here for one of the most profound conversations we have featured in this blog to date.
