Bush, Obama and Bono spoke to departing USAID employees Monday in a videoconference as the agency officially was shuttered following the Trump administration's reporting that it was overrun with ...

Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush have delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration in a video farewell with staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Bush shared similar views to Obama’s on USAID. On the call, he said that USAID’s staff has shown the “strength of America” through the work they’ve done.

Former US Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush have criticised President Donald Trump’s decision to shut down the US Agency for International Development (USAID), warning the move will ...

Bono joins Obama and Bush in bidding emotional farewell to USAID workers fired by Trump: “You were the best of us” “Gutting USAID is a travesty, and it’s a tragedy,” Obama added ...

Middle-class evangelicals who share the faith of George W. Bush are some of the strongest supporters of both Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and the DOGE cuts that led to the dismantling of USAID. Most ...

Former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama’s farewell messages to the staff of USAID reveal the "uniparty” culture of Washington.

Niall Stanage and Amber Duke discuss former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush along with U2’s Bono, are saying goodbye to USAID.

USAID was officially absorbed by the State Department on Tuesday. In a rare public rebuke, Bush, who has largely avoided criticizing Trump, said the closure ends a major piece of his presidency—the ...

Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration — and singer Bono held back tears as he recited a poem — in an emotional video farewell on ...

Feb. 7, 2025 — Hannah sits at home in Arlington today waiting for her furlough with USAID to begin at 11:59 pm tonight. It was on Friday, Jan. 24 that she first learned through a leaked memo ...