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USAID has long been plagued by waste, corruption, and covert political meddling; the biggest scandal may be how little scrutiny it has faced, until now.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Waste and fraud exist pretty much everywhere in the public and private sector. The solution is never to "shut down" the department or company and move along. There needs to be hearings and investigations and new rules and regulations to curtail abuses. I have no problem with those things, but all of that is too slow and too "public" for this Administration. The budget may be upwards of $60 billion but that doesn't get spent in a month. There's plenty of time to let the obviously legitimate programs for food and medicine continue while we scrutinize the esoteric and obscure ones.