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Was USAID Really Neo-Colonial?
Jeremy Lewin said the agency rewarded dependency, while thousands of staff were laid off and hundreds of partner groups lost support.
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Was USAID Really Neo-Colonial?
On July 1, 2025, USAID laid off thousands of staff, including me. A year later, I’m still wrestling with what it all meant. The justifications offered at the time—that USAID was riddled with corruption, fraud, and waste—didn’t match reality as I knew it. Then in January, Jeremy Lewin, one of the leading DOGE executioners tasked with killing USAID, embraced a critique from the left and accused the agency of being “neo-colonial.” My first instinct…
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