Who is Samantha Power? Meet the Biden-era USAID leader facing backlash amid Musk's DOGE crackdown

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Who is Samantha Power? Meet the Biden-era USAID leader facing backlash amid Musk's DOGE crackdown
Power was National Security Council member, UN ambassador under President Obama
By Andrew Mark Miller Fox News
Published February 5, 2025 6:38pm EST

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has recently become the target of Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts to slash government waste and spending, bringing increased scrutiny to the record of Samantha Power, the agency’s administrator during almost the entire Biden administration.

Power, who previously served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017 in the Obama administration after serving on his National Security Council, took the reins of USAID in the early days of the Biden administration and was tasked with overseeing the tens of billions of dollars budgeted for foreign aid.

"One of the most pressing challenges facing our nation is restoring and strengthening America's global leadership as a champion of democracy, human rights, and the dignity of all people," then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris said in a statement at the time of Power’s appointment. "Few Americans are better equipped to help lead that work than Ambassador Samantha Power."

Power was directly involved in the Obama administration’s surveillance of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and sought to obtain Michael Flynn's redacted identity using an "unmasking" request on at least seven occasions, Fox News Digital previously reported, despite testifying under oath before the House Intelligence Committee that she had "no recollection" of ever making such a request even once.

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I'm getting really nervous that something drastic is about to happen to bring all this to a halt. The people who are behind all this can't let it continue. The stakes are becoming extreme.

[Bigun]

I'm getting really nervous that something drastic is about to happen to bring all this to a halt. The people who are behind all this can't let it continue. The stakes are becoming extreme.

I don't think they can stop it now. The toothpaste is out of the tube forever.

[Free Vulcan]

I'm getting really nervous that something drastic is about to happen to bring all this to a halt. The people who are behind all this can't let it continue. The stakes are becoming extreme.

It's the rogue govt within the govt types pulling the strings from the shadows we need to draw out. I'm talking way beyond Powers, Obama, Rice, and Jarrett. They're going to come out hard and Trump needs to take them out no questions asked.

Until someone blinks it's going to be deep and nasty. Be ready.

[DCPatriot]

Samantha Powers' passport should be canceled immediately.

And as her waterboarding has commenced, so shall Barack Obama's.