
Foreign aid programs historically operated largely out of the public eye.
Now, according to State Department spokesperson Thomas Pigott, that era is over — and for good reason.
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In an interview with Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, Pigott explained that USAID previously “had a fundamental complete lack of accountability.”
“That’s why we wanted to bring USAID under the State Department, identify those programs,” he says.
“We would have circumstances where USAID was doing a program in a certain country that ran counter to the policy of the duly elected president of the United States, ran counter to the foreign policy in that country. You had a tremendous amount of USAID programs that were simply fueling an NGO industrial complex,” he explains.
“And this NGO industrial complex wasn’t actually addressing many
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