Trump links foreign aid cuts to Obama-Biden era waste in USAID report
Trump shares a Just the News report chronicling billions in USAID funds lost, stolen or wasted as his administration sharply reduces foreign aid.
First Published: August 23, 2026, 6:54 PM ET
WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald J. Trump pointed to a report cataloging billions of dollars in foreign aid waste from prior administrations as he defended his own sharp cuts to that spending. Trump shared the piece on Truth Social, tying his reductions to what he framed as past mismanagement of American generosity abroad.
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