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USAID - that's just for funding CIA operations if I recall. they don't really do food and water help.
I actually don't mind this.
Nah it's mostly graft. A large amount of USAID's budget goes to DC consulting firms, while claiming it goes to developing countries.
But some of it did go to the developing world. Have to read through a lot of legalese to find the loopholes to avoid the money staying DC tho. I remember when I was doing work for NGOs in a developing country those computer cases with USAID stickers on them were kinda valuable for this reason. Getting money to buy a new computer was basically impossible, but you could get money from USAID to "upgrade" the computers with a new motherboard, CPU, RAM, hard drive, etc.
But any chance they'd get, they'd direct them money to DC consulting firms which would do very little.