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The Next Big Idea · 2025-02-13 · 53 min · 8,904 words

The Former Head of USAID on Why Foreign Aid Benefits Everyone

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LinkedIn presents I'm Rufus Griscom, and this is the next Big ID. Today Raj Shaw, the former head of USAID. Makes the case for foreign aid.

At one fifty four in the morning on Monday, February third. Elon Musk tweeted the following. We spent the weekend feeding USAID to the wood chipper. Could have gone to some great parties. Did that instead.

Waking overnight, workers at the US Agency for International Development, USAID, in Washington. Утолта стай хо. This morning the main office closed. They received an email shortly after midnight telling them. Don't come in. This is the latest development on the future of USAID after both President Trump and maybe more importantly Elon Musk.

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