{"id":5810,"date":"2025-02-06T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-usaid-leaders-speak-out-against-trumps-attempt-to-dismantle-agency\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T11:20:17","slug":"former-usaid-leaders-speak-out-against-trumps-attempt-to-dismantle-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-usaid-leaders-speak-out-against-trumps-attempt-to-dismantle-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Former USAID leaders speak out against Trump&#8217;s attempt to dismantle agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of former administrators of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) joined on Wednesday to issue a sharp rebuke of the Trump administration&rsquo;s efforts to dismantle the agency. In a joint statement, five former administrators who &ldquo;served different presidents and voted for different political parties&rdquo; stressed the global importance of the agency and&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5129551-former-usaid-leaders-speak-out-against-trumps-attempt-to-dismantle-agency\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of former administrators of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) joined on Wednesday to issue a sharp rebuke of the Trump administration&rsquo;s efforts to dismantle the agency. In a joint statement, five former administrators who &ldquo;served different presidents and voted for different political parties&rdquo; stressed the global importance of the agency and&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}