Politico Labels Foreign Aid as 'Industry' as USAID Funding Cut Hits Payroll

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Foreign aid is not the most popular category of government. So when Team DOGE shut down the USAID payment system how did Politico attempt to garner sympathy from its readers for that agency? By absurdly labeling foreign aid as an "industry." In fact, the very title of the foreign aid sympathy story on Tuesday by reporters Maggie Miller and Carmen Paun invokes "industry" as in "Foreign aid freeze results in mass layoffs that could ‘crash’ the industry."

The title is unintentionally ironic since one of those "mass layoffs" could be at Politico itself due to the cutoff of government funding for USAID. Former Fox News producer Kyle Becker offered the receipts:

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2025/02/06/politico-labels-foreign-aid-industry-usaid-funding-cut-hits-payroll