The U.S. Agency of International Development has become President Donald Trump’s and the Department of Government Efficiency’s poster child for waste, fraud, and abuse of American taxpayer dollars.
And there is arguably no one in Washington, D.C., who knows more about how USAID works—or doesn’t—than Max Primorac, who formerly served as USAID’s chief operating officer and chief assistant to the acting deputy administrator during the first Trump administration.
Primorac, now a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, joined me this week on “The Signal Sitdown” to discuss what we now know about USAID’s corruption, how it was corrupted in the first place, and what other revelations could be coming down the pike.
One of Primorac’s early interactions with USAID was as a member of a nongovernmental…
