Ex-GOP and Dem USAID leaders condemn Trump’s aim to demolish agency: report

Former Democratic and Republican leaders who "served under Biden, Obama, George W. Bush, Clinton, and Reagan administrations," according to an exclusive CNN report, are urging Congress to stop President Donald TRump's administration from closing down the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

CNN reports the ex-USAID officials called on “Congress to swiftly protect the Agency’s statutory role" in a statement released Wednesday to the news outlet.

Per the report, Samantha Power, Gayle Smith, Andrew Natsios, J. Brian Atwood and Peter McPherson said to "weaken and even destroy the Agency is to the benefit of neither political party and the detriment of all Americans."

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The ex-top government officials added, “While we don’t agree on all issues, we wholeheartedly agree that USAID and America’s foreign assistance programs are vital to our interests, that the career men and women of USAID have served each of us well, and that it is the duty of the Administration and Congress to swiftly protect the Agency’s statutory role."

"Failure to maintain the global engagement that foreign aid enables, to honor the men and women of our civilian service as we do those in the military, or weaken and even destroy the Agency is to the benefit of neither political party and the detriment of all Americans," they continued.

CNN notes that the Congressional Research Service calls the MAGA administration's aim to dismantle the agency "violation of the law."

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CNN's full report is available here.