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Witness tells subcommittee USAID 'became a racket'; calls for reform of soft-power programs
Summary
A witness testified that U.S. soft-power tools, including USAID and the U.N., have drifted from strategic interests and require reevaluation and reform to better serve national security goals.
Megan Mops, director of the Center for American Safety and Security at the Independent Women's Forum, told the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee that U.S. soft-power instruments need overhaul and better accountability.
Mops said decades of poorly targeted foreign-aid spending and bureaucratic waste have weakened U.S. influence and given authoritarian competitors propaganda advantages. “USAID became a racket,” she testified, adding that incentives in the aid bureaucracy had prioritized…
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