Editor’s note: The following is prepared testimony to the House Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from Max Primorac, a former senior official at the U.S. Agency for International Development and now a senior research fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation. Primorac served at the USAID during the Trump administration, performing the duties of the deputy administrator and leading the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance.
Over the past few weeks, we have been treated to a daily litany of examples of waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer-funded foreign aid. The U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of State used foreign aid as a global platform to push radical and even obscene ideas that have shocked and angered the American people.
One cannot help but ask, was…
