President Donald Trump’s “America First” guiding ethos and the Department of Government Efficiency’s cost-cutting crusade have seeped into nearly every nook and cranny of the U.S. government, in particular its once-sprawling foreign aid apparatus.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock under the permafrost of Antarctica, you’ll know that one of the most seismic changes has been the extinction of the U.S. Agency for International Development, whose surviving parts are being absorbed by a slimmed-down, restructured State Department.
Another potentially tectonic shift could be happening at the Peace Corps, whose CEO, deputy CEO, and acting chief of staff all resigned last week “to pave the way for a new leadership team to step in and guide the organizational transformations that will make Peace Corps stronger and more efficient in the long run,” according to a statement.