Sen. Andy Kim, Former USAID Intern, Reflects on Seismic Shifts in U.S. Foreign Policy

Sen. Andy Kim, former USAID intern, reflects on seismic shifts in U.S. foreign policy

Sen. Andy Kim remembers feeling an acute sense of surrealness that overcast day in early February as he stood outside the entrance to the U.S. Agency for International Development at the Ronald Reagan Building where he, along with agency staff, were barred from entering at the order of the new Trump administration. For the New Jersey senator, even more so than other Democrats gathered that day to protest the abrupt closure of USAID, the moment f…