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The End of U.S. Soft Power
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The End of U.S. Soft Power

Nicole Widdersheim of Human Rights Watch is here to walk us through the consequences of the end of USAID.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the interim head of USAID, for however much longer the agency lasts. For 60 years, the massive bureaucracy was a vehicle for American soft power abroad. Trump, Elon Musk, and all their creatures don’t like it. It might soon be gone.

Nicole Widdersheim is the deputy Washington director of Human Rights Watch with a lo…

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