Last year the conservative Heritage Foundation published a nearly 900-page document outlining detailed proposals for how a future Republican administration should deploy the power of the White House across every aspect of the federal government.
One chapter deals with USAID and offers a sweeping set of recommendations that would reshape the United States’ foreign aid policies and programs.
The proposal outlined in that chapter is a combination of partisan attacks on President Joe Biden’s aid policies — which it deems “a divisive political and cultural agenda” — and a technocratic blueprint for reforming U.S. aid procurement.