China is “trying to replicate” specific USAID programs in Africa the Trump administration cut, according to the commander of U.S. Africa Command.
The Trump administration effectively gutted the U.S. Agency for International Development as a part of its governmentwide attempt to reduce the size of the federal government. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the State Department decided to cut “83% of the programs at USAID,” and folded the remaining programs into the department.
Gen. Christopher Cavoli, the commander of U.S. European Command, and Gen. Michael Langley, the commander of U.S. Africa Command, addressed the void left by the U.S. across Africa during their testimony in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.
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“There’s a number of programs that we see that the Chinese
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