Thousands gather in Washington to protest the dismantling of USAID
By Elissa Miolene // 06 February 2025
Thousands gathered outside the American Capitol on Wednesday to protest the dismantling of U.S. Agency for International Development — an agency that just three weeks ago was the largest bilateral donor in the world.
“The attempts to kill USAID will kill people,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, a former senior official at the agency who now heads Refugees International. “They will kill people that America has committed to save.”
Konyndyk was joined at the podium by 18 Democratic members of Congress and four senior USAID staff members. They’d been brought to the Capitol by Friends of Foreign Aid, a grassroots coalition of senior foreign service members, USAID staffers, and others.
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Elissa Miolene
Elissa Miolene covers U.S. foreign assistance from Washington, D.C. She previously covered education at The San Jose Mercury News, and has written for The Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other news outlets across the world. Before shifting to journalism, Elissa led communications for aid agencies in the United States, East Africa, and South Asia.
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