'A lot of garbage': Fmr. Republican USAID administrator slams Musk and Trump for gutting agency

Former USAID administrator Andrew Natsios, who served under the Bush administration, joins Nicolle Wallace to discuss the agency’s work and pushes back against the negative stories being spread about the agency on partisan lines as Elon Musk and President Donald Trump take aim.

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[drakonas]

So who approved recreating sesame Street in Iraq.

[thethrifthuntress]

Americans should be given a tax refund. So much corruption!

[erickokello]

These guys have turned against the guys catching the thieves and are not saying anything about the thieves and what they've stolen for years. Isn't that madness at the peak?

[kvjbglp]

How much money did USAID funnel to MSNBC ?

[diamonddiet]

Why does USAID need classified information systems? 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[Fishtankbigboss]

As a us tax payer im glad that an audit of the spending has been made public so we can vote on what we want our taxes to go to, not chosen for me

[Mister]

Who approved 300M weekly to fly illegals from their country to ours?

[erikwelter]

Stop talking to me like I can’t read…. I saw where our money went

[Chuck-jsdy]

Mr President keeps winning and MSNBC keeps losing

[PSLLP]

It was the fking around’est of times, and it was finding out’est of times 🍿😂

[readerscup]

I absolutely abhor when people try to manipulate me emotionally.

[maryiced]

THE PENTAGON SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE VERY FIRST GOVERNMENT AUDIT.

[LeviLeslie-bpzf]

If gaslighting was a professional career, you've come to the right news station.... $1.5 million to advance DEI in how is that not money laundering..

[dky]

What's wrong with doing a full audit? If the work is truly meaningful, we should keep it. But all I see are a complete waste of us of OUR taxpayer money. All of those budget items and those who are hired to execute those plans should be cut. I hope they continue to audit the entire federal budget. Federal spending is out of control and it makes full sense to do an external audit by an outsider who's managed a budget. We do it in our household, our companies do it, so why shouldn't the government? Please find and cut all the waste.

[billcrowleyrd]

They went from "our democracy " to how dare you look at where we spend the money we take out of your check every week . We rule you !! . Really fast

[Heels_Up_Harris]

Tell us more about USAID buying hundreds of POLITICO subscriptions for $75, 000 per subscription.

[Heels_Up_Harris]

Imagine supporting USAID sending billions to the Taliban. 😂😂😂

[TK-otcw]

I wonder how much msnbc got through usaid?

[QTLillian]

Didn’t USAID fund this channel? 🤔 almost like they’re biased or sumn

[thebilboshow]

"Omg theyre taking our stolen tax dollars!"
-Democrats