Most of the USAID budget is devoted to health and food security, with smaller portions to some programs Rhodes would defend (like civil society support), and what matters is how a future development agency will conceive its mission rather than whether USAID itself is dismantled.
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Ben RhodesEvidence Quote
“the most of the USC budget is health and food security... there's going to be a new USC ID or something else either under Trump but you know say a Democrat or frankly a non-trump republican gets elected I think there'll be a regeneration of some International Development agency”
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Ben Rhodes: The Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy— Weatherhead Center for International AffairsCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:23:32 AM
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