The Department of Government Efficiency’s decapitation strike against USAID over the weekend has caught the media off guard. Nonetheless, they are mustering a desperate response in hopes of saving the agency that embodies both the Deep State and the worst excesses of bloated government bureaucracy.
Most representative of the overall reporting is the brief that ran on the CBS Evening News, which provides both a convenient summary of the story’s narratives now and going forward:
CBS EVENING NEWS
2/3/25
6:38 PM
JOHN DICKERSON: Doors were locked at the Washington headquarters of USAID today at the mutual agreement of President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, whom he has empowered to remake the federal government. The USAID, established by President Kennedy and Congress, fights starvation and disease in more than 100 countries including Sudan, scene of…
