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WIRED Senior Writer Kate Knibbs explains how the Trump administration’s self-proclaimed “America First” policies are, in practice, anything but—particularly their effective destruction of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). See why shuttering the operations of USAID will negatively impact the everyday lives of Americans. Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey Director of Photography: Constantine Economides Editor:…
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@mack-uv6gn
March 26, 2025 at 6:18 pm
Soft foreign policy is very effective and much cheaper than hard foreign policy.
@AS_20231
March 26, 2025 at 6:23 pm
What will also hurt America: being pro Palestine
@conradsieber7883
March 26, 2025 at 6:38 pm
After all the BS the CIA has done to foreign countries why would we want to do some good?
@conradsieber7883
March 26, 2025 at 6:40 pm
International relations don’t matter (Russia Ukraine) we don’t need thei help (NATO) our businesses don’t need their markets (Asia)…
@grumpyzamora2508
March 26, 2025 at 6:59 pm
Fake News
@Mamo878
March 26, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Make CHINA Great Again!
— Donald J. Trump
@mmc1227
March 26, 2025 at 7:01 pm
Can you get a historian for Mali empire?
@petef.4361
March 26, 2025 at 7:03 pm
There are two sides to every story, and unfortunately Wired is only telling one side, while hiding the rest. You all have been duped.
@dande-lions
March 26, 2025 at 7:40 pm
God Americans are mind-numbingly dumb.
@TrentVanNordstrand
March 26, 2025 at 7:56 pm
Facts
@lowbudgetmic
March 26, 2025 at 7:06 pm
US AIDS 😮💛🌎
@Mamo878
March 26, 2025 at 7:07 pm
Americans get exactly the government they deserve. By definition.
Wake up already.
@JeffreyGoddin
March 26, 2025 at 7:46 pm
13:03 I thought it was unethical to show dead people? Because Trump killed that man.
@jimcoop5663
March 26, 2025 at 7:47 pm
Bull 💩
@andrewhobbs255
March 26, 2025 at 7:51 pm
im sure bill gates is very sad usaid is defunded … moment of silence for the dead money
@JDsgreatz28
March 26, 2025 at 7:52 pm
You forgot about the MASSIVE money laundering and fraud with zero oversight and accountability
@alleenabuer
March 26, 2025 at 7:59 pm
Larned Kansas mentioned 🙃
@abudia6403
March 26, 2025 at 8:20 pm
Now these countries would not need to be allies of America
@shinypaintf588
March 26, 2025 at 8:21 pm
me (latin american) and a european friend have a bet on when the US people will revolt. She’s optimistic and says “a couple months”. I think they’re too distracted and brainwashed to ever actually revolt, but if they did it would take at least another two years.
Over half the population there is so brainwashed and bigoted that no matter if they end up out on the street dying of hunger and can’t afford to cure themselves, they’ll blame woke DEI foringers before thinking it might be their political party.
The other half is spineless, inactive, cowardly, and also just as brainwashed.
My friend thinks that despite all the individualism, they might get a lone ranger to help them like mario’s brother. I think it might happen, but I’m not as optimistic.
@07JaK92
March 26, 2025 at 8:23 pm
share this with your friends and neighbours.
@gateCodeKC
March 26, 2025 at 8:28 pm
U S A I D not US Aid…
@jollygreen4662
March 26, 2025 at 8:40 pm
So all these federal funds go to these programs where commercial companies should be paying instead?
@willardSpirit
March 26, 2025 at 8:47 pm
So I guess we’re going to have an ebola outbreak in the US
@NomeDeArte
March 26, 2025 at 8:55 pm
Stop wasting in bullets and get free health care, you f$#&ing morons.
@CarrieLewis-j4l
March 26, 2025 at 8:59 pm
It’s good to see that opposing viewpoints aren’t filtered out of this comment section.
@eulogyfx75
March 26, 2025 at 9:08 pm
Is this same area of africa that is currently conducting a genocide on white people ?
@lawrencefrost9063
March 26, 2025 at 9:15 pm
OK, but why is the US funding all of this? They have no obligation to do this. Pass the ball to China or someone. I’m not even American!
@sarasmr4278
March 27, 2025 at 8:39 am
Hail, Algorithmia
@TheRoger2244
March 27, 2025 at 9:32 am
I don’t even blame voters that much… they have been lied and lied and lied, they do believe all USAID did was “transgender mice”
@mayankrai6443
March 27, 2025 at 9:51 am
By this U.S. will loose soft power and make way for China to come in.
Make CHINA great again.
@TheXPlayer_TWC
March 27, 2025 at 9:51 am
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@rodsimon7
March 27, 2025 at 9:57 am
This really did some nice projects with little money, considering only a fraction of USAID’s money were used for humanitarian issues, the rest was for coups and destabilization of sovereign nations
@rell_b_b
March 27, 2025 at 10:02 am
I have a genuine question- why does this have to be America’s issue?
@miyatenmeiritsu1810
March 27, 2025 at 11:47 am
Because USAID is essentially USA’s soft power projection agency, which was cannibalized under American First policy.
There are considerable fallout when USAID was gutted like this. Nevermind lots of people dying over the cut aid, lots of American workers lost their jobs over this tomfoolery.
That too, China Aid would be filling in the vacuum left by USAID, giving China a free pass to win influence over developing countries.
@pgplay82
March 27, 2025 at 10:04 am
7:00 pumpkin spice is not a plant it’s a mix of the spices you mentioned earlier. It’s important to understand what you are talking about or you will just create a mass of people who are incompetent as they base their knowledge on mistakes you make
@nasty__nancy998
March 27, 2025 at 10:11 am
Wired is a farleft tabloid for anyone who dont know.
@Ernest_Burns
March 27, 2025 at 10:15 am
This is the stuff that needs to be pushed nation wide. People don’t seem to understand just how much these services not only affect others around the world but US citizens as well. As stated ‘it only takes a quick flight to spread into other nations’.
@Mike-u3r
March 27, 2025 at 10:28 am
No mention of the degusting experiments on animals that usaid is doing or funding certain groups that harm civilians or trying buy govts.. I see you are all ok with this and want to continue funding. I say let folks like you that are pro usaid, foot that tax bill. You are the ones that should be taxed for that nonsense not me.
@grammernotzi
March 27, 2025 at 10:37 am
We’re constantly feed poison by our own government with all this processed garbage. Pesticides, herbicides, artificial flavor, food dyes, and many many more chemicals. And people think it’s a good idea to spread this crap around the world? (And this has nothing to do with Trump. They’ve been feeding us this crap since WWII)
@eriktamlin
March 27, 2025 at 11:32 am
USA has lost all credibility and the sad part is that most of the people who voted for the con man has no idea the damage he is causing. They will only understand when the health and economic damage comes back to US. We’re all connected, and US has willingly given up the leader roll. If this continues USA will be nothing but a cautonary tale.
@mikeb2777
March 27, 2025 at 12:26 pm
I am still waiting to see Wired’s Epstein flight log follow-up.
@Calian-TV
March 27, 2025 at 1:56 pm
This is what happens when someone with the mental faculties of a 12-year-old becomes president
@apivorus
March 27, 2025 at 3:38 pm
The main problem is not even that the Trump administration thinks USAID is ineffective. If their plan was to slowly phase out foreign aid e.g., in the next 10 years, then financial and social safety nets could have easily continued helping those in need. Instead, the administration is randomly gutting everything that displeases them. The people that could have solved world hunger and improved global health are just sowing chaos for their own good.
@aaroncooper4237
March 27, 2025 at 6:21 pm
You can really see how angry she is throughout this video and it’s 100% understandable.
@Primo_extracts
March 27, 2025 at 6:39 pm
What can we do? These people are evil. Must be stopped.
@asorite
March 27, 2025 at 6:46 pm
USAID is america’s greatest projection of soft power in the world. Musk is not smart enough to understand that apparently
@asorite
March 27, 2025 at 6:53 pm
The people working for USAID are amongst the best policy makers on the planet. They actually get to the poorest of the poor to gain knowledge on crafting laws that is actually amicable to absolutely everyone. Something that trump or musk can never begin to fathom because they live at the extreme antithesis of what usaid stands for.
@andybarrgardens
March 27, 2025 at 7:31 pm
So if we don’t feed them they will join ISIS? What kind of crazy logic is this? And don’t they have neighbors? Maybe they should try getting along rather than committing jihad against them. If only there were a few wealthy countries, perhaps with tons of oil, that shared their belief system and could help their “brothers”.
@louibeale2387
March 27, 2025 at 7:40 pm
The hard part about this story is that its completely one sided.
I dont think anyone is saying that USA.I.D was doing no good, i think the bigger castly more important picture is that it was wrought with corruption.
The reality is that few end up suffering for the corruption of even fewer.
Best way to stop corruption is to root it out.
We will bring back soft power. Its just that this time we’ll have to know where the money is actually being spent
@louibeale2387
March 27, 2025 at 7:45 pm
We should really abandon soy bean altogether the oils we make for it are absolutely awful
@louibeale2387
March 27, 2025 at 7:46 pm
Coffee is already ridiculously priced so USA.I.D. was obviously doing that much
@Preyformojo
March 27, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Yanks wanted cheap eggs instead are getting bird flu, measles, polio, ebola and leprosy outbreaks. 🤪
@_DREBBEL_
March 27, 2025 at 8:31 pm
TRUMP IS A FACIST.
@Isha-u2m
March 28, 2025 at 7:09 pm
teach them to grow their own food
@philasoma
March 28, 2025 at 7:17 pm
No more rent-a-riots for democrats. Wired in shambles. Was Wired also funded by USAID?
@interdom3
March 28, 2025 at 7:24 pm
how is saving wasteful spending making food prices more expensive?!
@BoPeng-l9z
March 28, 2025 at 7:25 pm
I just asked ChatGPT, about 14% of USAID fund was used for food/health and other humanitarian aids.
@bruceglisson1720
March 28, 2025 at 7:26 pm
And the democrats screwed it up
@msx701
March 28, 2025 at 7:26 pm
the world seems to be the US tax payers problem, USAID turned out the be the dems personal slush fund…
@cody_go_create
March 28, 2025 at 7:27 pm
Suuuuuuure bud
@corycraig2607
March 28, 2025 at 7:27 pm
Y’all so funny America I hate it but we need real problems
@kkendell954
March 28, 2025 at 7:31 pm
Israel has received the most aid EVER…..I notice they haven’t been mentioned…AIPAC owns America….the Americans are too dumb to know this fact.
@johnf8338
March 28, 2025 at 7:34 pm
Please report the facts
@Duckfoot_007
March 28, 2025 at 7:34 pm
If you demonrats weren’t stealing all of our money thru this fraud, these cuts wouldn’t have been necessary
@chriszimmer49
March 28, 2025 at 7:45 pm
I love the taste of libel tears. Maybe let’s focus on rebuilding the middle class before we start solving the rest of the world’s problems.
@williamskiles7098
March 28, 2025 at 7:54 pm
So we are supposed to allow the waste, fraud and corruption to continue, its either all or nothing. All the money wasted on LGBTQ+ and DEI is gone and thats what your really mad about
@marketads1
March 28, 2025 at 7:54 pm
All to change a govt into a poorly run corporation.
@marketads1
March 28, 2025 at 7:56 pm
Nah! You can’t lie to us by telling the truth!
@Heatherder
March 28, 2025 at 7:56 pm
I really don’t give a crap about anyone who lived off usaid. Probably we should stop subsidizing useless population growth
@_Just_John
March 28, 2025 at 7:57 pm
What baffles me is transport of grain half across the world to some remote location accessible only by small plane to feed few people. They survived until modern day somehow. So why the sudden need for imported food? What about growing something there? Providing seeds and knowledge how to farm would be far more beneficial and long-term sustainable than transporting food there. But we all know why. Majority of the money ends up in someone’s pocket.
@mc1993
March 28, 2025 at 8:01 pm
Kate Knibbs is a CEO of a Healthcare Insurance Company. I saw nothing.
@Angela-dx6cs
March 28, 2025 at 8:02 pm
The organization was assessed and 30% of the funding was kept. The funding that was important continues.
@doogandoggin2571
March 28, 2025 at 8:31 pm
Welcome to eugenics 101. We were supposed to be better, smarter than this.
@condeerogers5858
March 28, 2025 at 8:34 pm
Closing down USAID was a good idea. Don’t listen to this video. It’s a lie.
@Degenxdta
March 28, 2025 at 8:38 pm
Us taxpayers taken
@mommamomma3607
March 28, 2025 at 8:48 pm
Yawn’s 🥱. B.S. propaganda
@gregarakelian2257
March 28, 2025 at 9:00 pm
This is pure propaganda news it’s been destroying America they still try though don’t they
@m_0863
March 28, 2025 at 9:04 pm
Like, and well done.
@ChristiAbrameit
March 29, 2025 at 12:35 pm
ALL LIES…😂😂😂
@ChristiAbrameit
March 29, 2025 at 12:36 pm
CANADA ROBBED AMERICA UNDER BIDEN WITH THEIR UNFAIR TRADE TO A SO CALLED ALLY AND FRIEND..LET GOD JUDGE WHO IS RIGHT
@ChristiAbrameit
March 29, 2025 at 12:38 pm
CANADA OBSESSED WITH AMERICA..CANADA YOU DON’T WANT TO BECOME AMERICA, BUT YOUR ALWAYS IN MY BUTTER…
@ChristiAbrameit
March 29, 2025 at 12:40 pm
WE ANTICIPATE SOME LOSS FOR THE GREATER GOOD..WHO ARE YOU???
@siewheilou399
March 29, 2025 at 1:00 pm
Australia?
@peterpanayi8475
March 29, 2025 at 2:20 pm
So dumb question because I’m not an economy expert, why can’t all that food product that’s sitting on state side be sold to other markets ?
@ted70281
March 29, 2025 at 4:31 pm
It is the biggest fraud ever wake up
@ted70281
March 29, 2025 at 4:33 pm
Thank god for donald trump
@Hawlkeye-e9p
March 29, 2025 at 4:42 pm
foreign people rely on THEIR gov, not us tax payers.
if they want to sell stuff to the us and pay for that. good on them.
never again will i pay a dime in taxes.
ever
@Hawlkeye-e9p
March 29, 2025 at 4:43 pm
once the door is open the flood starts all over again.
stop having children if you cant pay for college, health, school.
@jonasjohnson1958
March 29, 2025 at 5:29 pm
This creates a huge opportunity for China to fill the void for developing countries and helping people in crisis. These countries and people will remember who came to help them in their time of need and it won’t be the US.
@jesselopez904
March 29, 2025 at 5:43 pm
😂🎉 BULLSH*T!!!! Go waste money not our hard earned tax dollars!!!! We will survive just fine without you CLOWNS 🤡!!😂🎉
@MichaelMayoSR
March 29, 2025 at 6:20 pm
Good as a tax payer who pays up to 40% in tax to the Federal government. I love seeing fired Government buercracts
@MichaelMayoSR
March 29, 2025 at 6:24 pm
I love seeing government spending on a diet !! Liberals hate cutting government spending says a lot 😂
@MichaelMayoSR
March 29, 2025 at 6:28 pm
Liberals cry Hard when u cut there Deep state Slush Fund!!
@MichaelMayoSR
March 29, 2025 at 6:30 pm
Good let the other countries take care of them happy to see it 😂.. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲👍first
@invox9490
March 29, 2025 at 6:44 pm
“I fear what’s happening in America.” – the World.
@peterprokop
March 29, 2025 at 7:35 pm
It looks a lot like the demise of the American empire is in full swing,
@Al-cm8ny
March 29, 2025 at 8:04 pm
Grear video but i think u appealled to much to ethos, make it even more clear, and in simple terms, to those who ask “why should we pay so much for this, how does this benefit us now” etc.. IF they dont believe in “Global Warming, Vaccination, Pandemics” then ur informatino is only bieng revived by those already in the know. But we do know they agree to subjects on crop issue and other food on us soil. This should have emhpazied this too
@jackhowie7031
March 29, 2025 at 8:06 pm
The reality is that the U.S. should have a bigger role because the world’s brightest minds are enriching that country. The top countries historically attracted the best resources, whether is China, Rome, Constantinople, Bagdad or New York.
@MainlanderWho-FyTb
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 pm
14:23 I’m Chinese tbh, and is *this* a “bad thing”?
@Veritas.0
March 29, 2025 at 8:37 pm
What does this have to do with tech reporting, WIRED?
@John-ol5vk
March 29, 2025 at 8:47 pm
The problem with USAID is that corrupt Deep State Departments, corrupt Senators, & corrupt Government long-term bureaucrats have also been using USAID to fund millions if not billions of TaxPayer Dollars to MADE-UP NGO’s, Special Interest Groups, Non-Profit Agencies, and Causes!!! Closing USAID may hurt those legitimate causes but it is a sacrifice we have to make in order to end the even BIGGER fraud & abuser of TaxPayer Money!! —– “THE NEEDS OF THE MANY OUTWEIGH THE FEW”!!!!!
@JohnSmith-mx8wp
March 30, 2025 at 1:03 am
“Because so much was affected, we can’t cover it all in a single video. So we’ll be focusing on the two most critical aspects of USAID: food and health.”
That is (oops…WAS) only the window dressing. For those who want to see about the OTHER aspects of USAID (CIA tomfoolery, regime change, election fuckery, etc ), look up videos featuring Mike Benz. There are tons of them online. Mike will open your eyes. Happy surfing!
@dholt21771
March 30, 2025 at 1:10 am
They pointed out how little made it to the poor due to grift and tried to make it sound like a great thing.
@newt8388
March 30, 2025 at 1:23 am
Wonderfully informative video. Thank you, WIRED.
@l4l1t._x
March 30, 2025 at 4:36 am
US Taxpayers do not need to feed the world. We are suffering
@pricky6140
March 30, 2025 at 5:46 am
Thanks to un informed voters die hard cult voters and in between that voters that voted for trump, without you all, all this madness would never be possible, hope you feeling great today about your choice, well until you get fruc like the rest that have the nerve to go in TV or social media and dare to complain against the very same thing VP Harris warned you all about. You deserve every bit of trump’s rath not feeling sorry for you AT ALL.
@disgusted3191
March 30, 2025 at 6:12 am
Are you telling me that the world cannot continue without the nation responsible for colonialism and white supremacy? The evil Nation responsible for all the ills in the world.
@Lavendarrose8
March 30, 2025 at 6:43 am
This is temporary, so stop putting fear in peoples heads.
@coledrevenj
March 30, 2025 at 7:01 am
Well done propaganda piece.
@zzzman68
March 30, 2025 at 7:36 am
Also, a tool for soiling chaos and toppling governments
@martine.bruggemann98
March 30, 2025 at 7:39 am
So, in summary, the administration has it all figured out.
@김모치-z1h
March 30, 2025 at 7:46 am
Make China Great Again! Thanks 47 😀
@Kaijuus
March 30, 2025 at 7:48 am
Sorry. middle eastern, south asian and african people are not my AMERICAN concern.
Re-Import the food and redistribute the food to American Food Banks, ect or export it as a profit for our Govt (if possible)
@johnnyd9328
March 30, 2025 at 8:20 am
Thanks God he send Trump to save Americans money so much money giving to haiti I never see one thing they do Thanks Elon for open people eyes
@roughhabit9085
March 30, 2025 at 9:06 am
If you steal money off people, it doesn’t matter what you do with it.
@adamcolon
March 30, 2025 at 9:39 am
I’ve been paying attention to what’s happening. Listening instead of hearing what I want to hear or what I don’t want to hear.
It sounds like many programs are going to have continued funding or funding restored but under the State Department instead of USAID (which is now completely gone).
It also sounds like many programs will get a restoration of funding, but with grants for domestic labs and domestic researchers instead of foreign researchers.
The message in this video is wasted on youtube. You need to to talk directly to members of the State Department with a detailed per-project assessment of importance and impact of each program so they can address it and restore and fund the programs.
Let’s be pragmatic, if it’s a foreign grant, it’s an uphill battle. If it’s a domestic grant, it’s MUCH easier.
@mountainhobbit1971
March 30, 2025 at 9:52 am
this administration knows nothing of the interconnectedness of all life on this planet. Seems to me all they care about are the lives of white ‘Christian’ US Billionaires.
@InnovateMonetize
March 30, 2025 at 10:36 am
In short: chain effect.
@maksymkashchuk5420
March 30, 2025 at 12:44 pm
Kindness is about helping others and not waiting for any gratitude in response
@CrayolaCoffeeBean
March 30, 2025 at 12:52 pm
USAID needed to be abolished. It’s a kind idea but it’s fully corrupt.
@no_terror_management
March 31, 2025 at 8:05 am
“fully corrupt” source? pipe? Don’t expect you to provide any evidence though since Elon hasn’t either.
@trinarichardson291
March 30, 2025 at 1:27 pm
What about all the go fund me over here that are put uoppppppp to try save children lives
@trinarichardson291
March 30, 2025 at 1:29 pm
What about people like me very disable and can’t pay my bills cause giving to other countries about about all the hunger here and foodstamps stop spreading this chaos you have no idea living in your glass houses
@lapasorsa9022
March 30, 2025 at 5:18 pm
Let’s be clear right here. Clear water is the number one issue in any measure you can find or think. With one year spending we could easily develop factories to bring that to countries near oceans. We have the technology, but maybe getting health to people isn’t the thing here. It’s to get the money to those corrupted organizations. And yes, I have read how much my country throw money to these so called non-governmental organizations. If you want numbers how much they use for management and leadership, I’m more than willing to reveal those. But I will say, it’s only 10-15% incoming that goes to the targets. Fact!
@THENARRATIVTestimonies
March 30, 2025 at 6:26 pm
So happy its gone!
@rob_barriecharles2042
March 31, 2025 at 4:17 pm
Yeah. Me too. Now that we dont keep an eye on infectous diseases on other countries, its going to be fun having multiple overlapping infectious pandemics.
@ultimatepatriot
March 30, 2025 at 7:15 pm
You are fake news. Only thing it’s going to hurt is the drr Er monrsts who are laundering money through it. USAID was nothing but a money grab, You pathetic commies and radicals can take your trash to another country
@no_prisoners1
March 30, 2025 at 7:52 pm
It was probably not about saving lives
@wtl912
March 30, 2025 at 9:49 pm
Trump’s policies: small gains today. Terrible consequences tomorrow.
@wtl912
March 30, 2025 at 9:52 pm
11:13 but that’s OK.
Next pandemic, whatever it is, Trump will just blame China.
@gulfportflamefighter4545
March 30, 2025 at 10:25 pm
We need to start looking at Americans first then look elsewhere.
Stop the fraud, waste, and corruption.
USAID needs to be abolished as well as DOE
@inovakovsky
March 30, 2025 at 11:06 pm
Based that US soft power is finally weakening.
@sashaa7130
March 31, 2025 at 3:44 am
Why aren’t we holding the governments of these countries accountable for providing these basic services for their citizens, so the rest of the world doesn’t have to? In effect, we’ve just been providing a band aide rather than dealing with the root causes of these issues. You’d think after all these years, some of that funding would have been invested in long-term solutions.
@Honkious5824
March 31, 2025 at 8:09 am
That’s precisely the point. If countries are able to achieve self-sufficiency, then the US would have no way of keeping them aligned with it’s own interests. It deliberately makes developing countries dependent on it so they’re forced to bend the knee to it regardless of what it does.
@megamanx466
March 31, 2025 at 5:53 am
But… but… we voted for the most rizz! How could this have happened!? 😒
@lukwagowilson5606
March 31, 2025 at 7:48 am
Heh…I just figured something out. This entire idea of giving tax-cuts to the billionaires doesn’t make sense at all given how much some of the programs under USAID actually propped up their businesses.
@rob_barriecharles2042
March 31, 2025 at 4:16 pm
I didnt know farmers were billionaires.
@mrmurdock6994
March 31, 2025 at 9:19 am
What part of USA doesn’t have money to donate you don’t understand? 35T in debt, 100B payment per month.
@dianhyouvideo
March 31, 2025 at 8:41 pm
USA have no money to pay the sailors who manned the USN in the Red Sea? USA have no money to build more military hardware?
@INFJ-ThaneTr
March 31, 2025 at 10:27 am
More propaganda
@Svenir
March 31, 2025 at 1:45 pm
RIP Bozo USAID
@davidlubanga5527
March 31, 2025 at 2:52 pm
What is wrong with helping the less-fortunate? I am sure a vast majority of Americans are OK helping out
@michaelamd86
March 31, 2025 at 3:37 pm
All this video is really saying is that America should still be responsible for helping other countries. A lot of that map that USAID had partnered with seem to be Universities, too. The same places that are feeding this woke ideology where they protest America and support Palestine, want trans men in women’s sports, etc. etc. This just reinforced why they should cut it. The important things will get funding, and the bs stuff will stay cut. Can you also justify all the nonsense that USAID was funding??
@rob_barriecharles2042
March 31, 2025 at 4:20 pm
USAID cut off? Resulting in American farmers losing their farms??? Good! They voted for it.
@kname1882
March 31, 2025 at 4:55 pm
what is this women even doing???😅😅😅 looking at the camera and naming countries and hoping that maked since
@kname1882
March 31, 2025 at 5:12 pm
What about Propaganda outlet of Radio Free Europe ???? will poor americans be inflenced for that?? Uasid is funding laying media and spreding hate towards inocent people who want freedom and independence
@FeebleAntelope
March 31, 2025 at 8:16 pm
“America first!” they yell, while stabbing America in the back repeatedly. I guess they mean for America to be unalived first.
Whether Musk Trump is an enemy agent or not, they are certainly acting like it.
@greyj__
March 31, 2025 at 10:39 pm
Why am I not seeing an comments about the USAID corruption?
Fraud & Waste: A 2021 report found $3.4 billion in improper payments across U.S. foreign aid.
Political Influence: Over 50% of USAID funds are often tied to U.S. political and strategic interests rather than direct humanitarian needs.
Contractor Mismanagement: Up to 70% of USAID’s budget goes to contractors and NGOs, some of which have been caught inflating costs or failing to deliver results.
Failed Projects: In Afghanistan alone, USAID spent $17 billion, with the Special Inspector General (SIGAR) reporting massive corruption and mismanagement.
@gingerpickett6958
March 31, 2025 at 10:46 pm
Making America stupid again
@JasperTomo
March 31, 2025 at 10:58 pm
so
@MrWhy-m5l
March 31, 2025 at 11:35 pm
If gutting USAID means no more cheap coffee and chocolate for Americans, does that mean we’ll all just be grumpy and sugar-deprived while China takes over the world with better snacks?
@et_puis
April 1, 2025 at 12:00 am
the world being this dependant on america is NOT good for the world. How’s about that?
Also it’s funny that farmers voted screw themselves.
Is this leftist pro-american propaganda?
@Ankobiotics
April 1, 2025 at 12:48 am
Garbage people — Joe Rogan and his loud band of glazers — have done a remarkable job in lying about USAID. They’ve painted it as a secret CIA-led organization that spends our taxes on unproductive things such as paying for Netflix subscriptions or researching the gender identity of poisonous frogs.
Let’s see what happens when the next pandemic shows up. I have a feeling this same group of people will fail to connect the dots and figure out that it was a bad idea to end an organization that directly and indirectly eliminates diseases across the world.
@Blogic98
April 1, 2025 at 4:10 am
USAID is not foreign aid, its a weapon, if you want to do good ACTUALLY do good via ACTUAL aid not a trojan horse for america to take over and abuse another country
@AdoraTsang
April 1, 2025 at 7:10 am
Some of those USAID money were used to fund anti-China think tanks in foreign countries.
Don’t you notice an immediate reduction in anti-China news?
@jaroslawbalewski6953
April 1, 2025 at 8:23 am
Columbia university partnership is your argument
@ExtraEffort-g9i
April 1, 2025 at 8:37 am
I didn’t know Sorros was funding WIRED
@lanouek
April 1, 2025 at 8:42 am
PROPAGANDA!!! Do not fall for these lies.
@Leela31825
April 1, 2025 at 8:45 am
It’s called reorganisation… get real
@robertchristianson1187
April 1, 2025 at 9:04 am
Everyone has an opinion on this
Lets just wait and see
@TJShadowStorm
April 1, 2025 at 9:23 am
Vaxxes kill.
They do not heal. They poison. They destroy.
In twenty years, when your children are fighting cancer or your grandchildren are born sick, thank the white coat you trusted. Thank the system that told you it was safe.
You didn’t question. You didn’t research. You just obeyed.
Shot after shot. Needle after needle.
And now? They are poisoned. Their cells corrupted. Their immune systems wrecked.
Try explaining that to your grandchildren. Tell them why they will never know true health. Tell your child why they are tired, anxious, infertile, or riddled with autoimmune disease.
You let the system inject them with toxins. You handed them over. Not once. Not twice. Again. And again. And again.
And now the bloodline is broken.
You didn’t protect them.
You trusted evil.
You let the doctors play god.
Enjoy the fallout.
, and
Farmers should be caring for their communities, not the entire world. We were never meant to stretch our hands across oceans just to feed strangers while our neighbors starve. Planes, ships, electricity, internet—strip it all down. We’ve lost ourselves in the noise. What we need is a return to simplicity. A return to truth.
We don’t need a million corporations trying to feed the planet. We need real people—farmers, butchers, bakers—feeding their own people. Communities sustaining themselves, not outsourcing their survival.
This obsession with profit, with sending products to China or chasing global markets—it’s hollow. Money has become the root of every deception. It twists motives. It blinds hearts.
It’s time to go backward. Time to dismantle this global machine. It is not progress. It is destruction, disguised as growth. And it’s killing the soul of the world.
@logicae4096
April 1, 2025 at 9:41 am
Wired is only highlighting the good things USAID has done and not covering the bad. USAID has done some good but the agency has also been pushing what I would term cultural imperialism, trying to spread woke culture and ideas around the world. Are the people of the US so arrogant as to push its ideology to other countries and cultures? Do you respect France’s culture? If so why push your ideologies onto it? Do you respect China’s culture (not country)?
@Timothy-g7k
April 1, 2025 at 9:57 am
The USA is broke. We are borrowing money and adding to the debt unsustainably. Massive Federal cuts are vital for any hope for a future. Do contribute to charity if you are so inclined. The crap funded by USAID is just stupid.
@cia1223
April 1, 2025 at 12:58 pm
@14:07 USA in its greed and pride has destroyed and pillaged countries! N USaid was collecting intel, cultivating propaganda while also making some amends with its humanitarian projects. Now see, how the mighty has fallen! USA did Afghanistan dirty. Now, the US govt is doing it’s own people dirty. How the mighty is falling!! Cutting american jobs with a big recession coming, yep, u guys are being played
@ИльяЛомоносов-ю3м
April 1, 2025 at 1:04 pm
Как же тут воняет соей
@bicyclekick45
April 1, 2025 at 1:51 pm
US aid termination should be a wake-up call
@roswald392
April 1, 2025 at 8:56 pm
USAID is just imperialism using money. Ideologues use tax-payer money to force their will on other countries and cultures.
@cobrabeebop
April 1, 2025 at 9:00 pm
This is propaganda. Wired fails to mention the parts of USAID that were kept and rolled into the state department. They leave out all the corruption. They are pushing a fake political narrative
@ndechindech290
April 2, 2025 at 5:02 am
yawn
@tibimutasunta2132
April 2, 2025 at 7:41 am
Woke excuses🤪🤣😂💯👎👎👎
@gregc2069
April 2, 2025 at 9:47 am
Stop 90 percent of usaid funding it’s nothing but a slush fund kickbacks for governments world wide and crooked politicans here in usa,
@bodhileaf-smh
April 2, 2025 at 11:00 am
Couldn’t have anything to do with racism………..noooooooooooo…….
@noahscats4907
April 2, 2025 at 12:53 pm
How could it be “America First” if this agency was vital to help maintain and reduce diseases that could spread to the US?
@Smasher-Devourer
April 2, 2025 at 5:11 pm
Why feed starving kids in Africa when we can have a trans opera in Peru?
@dick3543-i2t
April 2, 2025 at 5:16 pm
Africa is doing fine. Why should we give them money? Is it because they’re lazy?
@Smasher-Devourer
April 2, 2025 at 5:42 pm
Apparently liberals have never heard of CHARITY. They’re too busy using the government to steal people’s money and “redistribute” it into their own pockets to ever donate to a charity.
@888YangJi
April 2, 2025 at 8:18 pm
USAID is a front for CIA black ops.
@rifqimujahid4907
April 2, 2025 at 9:24 pm
this is actually great, made developing nations to realize to be not dependent on american imperialism
@Noapologies-q3p
April 3, 2025 at 6:48 am
yeah, but why weren’t these appeal made before the cut?? if you’d actually done something to prevent it😅
@anthonyfiringi-d4k
April 3, 2025 at 7:47 am
hope things don’t go back to normal.
@marcydow9580
April 3, 2025 at 10:37 pm
Extremely shameful and dangerous.
@moogiibat5845
April 4, 2025 at 9:16 am
oh noo we can’t fund terrorist no more.
@mewcrazy
April 5, 2025 at 10:28 pm
As far as I understood, if Programs feel they are important then they still can get their funding approved. It’s not like everything is canceled all the way.
@alexausberlin
April 6, 2025 at 9:34 am
Interesting… under 100k views. US citizens love to remain uninformed
@aa-rd1em
April 10, 2025 at 8:37 pm
Trump, Musk and others are killers. They knew people will die by closing USAID. People must demonstrate against USAID cuts, for the sake of peace. What Trump and Musk are doing, is the same thing as war. It’s genocide. If you would demonstrate against wars, you should demonstrate against USAID cuts, because it’s the same thing. We must act as fast as possible, for people are dying at this moment. If you think this mass killing won’t end up in extremely serious concequences for USA safety, you must have never heard of 9.11. That was an attack against USA for opressing foreign countries too. USA is the richest country in the world so it’s only natural that it provides aids to poor countries, besides, in terms of the amount payed one person each for foreign aid, USA ranks only 16th, paying 193.1$ each in 2023.
@larrygriego3328
April 13, 2025 at 6:09 am
Dam right no one cares about the world we need to take care of Americans