Obama, Bush criticize Trump administration for 'gutting USAID'

Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush directly criticized the Trump administration’s move to fold the U.S. Agency for International Development into the State Department on Monday during a video tribute for the agency’s staffers.

The former presidents teamed up with Bono for a farewell video marking the organization’s last day as an independent agency. During the send-off, Obama slammed the move, saying, “Gutting USAID is a travesty, and it’s a tragedy.”