Good morning. Donald Trump’s decision to wind down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was met with profound and widespread condemnation. Yet his administration has remained undeterred in its plans.
The metaphors for the destruction – he has taken an axe to the global agency – have even bled through to the real world, with one of the most striking images of the first few months of Trump’s term being Elon Musk waving a chainsaw around on stage. All to drive home one point: there will be no more foreign assistance.
