The Thank you. Andrew, I wonder if you could just take us through what people don't understand about how

nonpartisan USAID's mission is.

Well, any agency or department of the federal government follows the lead of the White

House.

So the Fox News and other groups are attacking aid for having some social, cultural programs,

the culture wars.

That's ordered by any White House.

We had conservative programs when I was administrator, and when Mark Green was administrator

and the Bush administration, the Trump administration, the first one, and when the Democrats take, they move it leftist center.

And the career people didn't resist when I was there, and I'm probably the most conservative

administrator in the history of the agency. They showed me how to do it. I trusted them.

I treated them respectfully. And they said, if you do it this way, you're going to get into trouble.

If you do it this way, it's going to work. I reviewed every single program from the

Clinton administration when I took over in 2001, and I ended dozens of programs. And I redirected

them toward our priorities. That took a month. We did it quietly. The career people cost a lot of the

Clinton programs, dogs, because they didn't work. And did it quietly. The career people cost a lot of the Clinton programs, dogs,

because they didn't work. And they didn't even like them. But they quietly implemented what

they, under the Clinton years, what they were told to do. And they do the same thing when I was in

office. The notion that AID is not following the foreign policy.

Of course it isn't.

There's no aid administrator.

They haven't appointed any people from the Republican Party to run AID under Trump.

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