{"id":10807,"date":"2026-01-17T00:44:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=10807"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:44:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:44:48","slug":"bush-obama-join-forces-to-criticize-closing-of-usaid-by-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=10807","title":{"rendered":"Bush, Obama Join Forces To Criticize Closing Of USAID By Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They met on screens, not a stage\u2014two former presidents and a rock star facing stunned civil servants through webcams. USAID, a product of Kennedy-era idealism, was being absorbed into a State Department newly framed around \u201cnational interest\u201d above all else. Bush recited figures\u201425 million lives saved\u2014as if numbers could stop a shutdown. Obama spoke like he was addressing veterans of a war few back home ever noticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond that virtual room, the story was blunt: DOGE, Elon Musk, and Trump\u2019s tally of \u201cwaste,\u201d where scholarships in Burma and LGBTQ programs in Lesotho became rally jokes. Inside, Bono\u2019s words lingered: \u201cThey called you crooks. When you were the best of us.\u201d The agency ended with a memo. The loss did not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They met on screens, not a stage\u2014two former presidents and a rock star facing stunned civil servants through webcams. USAID, a product of Kennedy-era idealism, was being absorbed into a State Department newly framed around \u201cnational interest\u201d above all else. Bush recited figures\u201425 million lives saved\u2014as if numbers could stop a shutdown. Obama spoke like &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}