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How the Trump admin destroyed USAID
Nicholas Enrich’s new memoir “Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID” tells the inside story of the second Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID.

Enrich worked at USAID for over a decade before he was pushed out of the agency in early 2025, when the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency summarily cut its staff and funding. His book is named after one of Musk’s social media posts from that period, when the South African billionaire wrote, “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.”

An estimated 14 million people are projected to die “unnecessarily” over the next five years due to DOGE’s unmitigated cuts, and nearly a million, mostly children, already have, says Enrich. Since its establishment in 1961, USAID has saved the lives of tens of millions around the world by treating and preventing serious health issues such as HIV/AIDS, malnutrition, malaria and more in under-resourced countries.

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