CBS’ USAID Sob Story Goes Down In Flames After ‘Worker’ Is Identified As Liberal Operative

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CBS’ USAID Sob Story Goes Down In Flames After ‘Worker’ Is Identified As Liberal Operative

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By Mark Steffen
February 18, 2025

A CBS News hit piece on the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency’s dismantlement of USAID has come undone after one of its reporters’ key sources turned out to be a liberal operative with an anti-Trump agenda.

A “60 Minutes” special presentation on DOGE’s destruction of the United States Agency for International Development showcased Kristina Drye, a federal worker who innocently portrayed herself as a working stiff unsure of where her next paycheck would come from after it was announced that all but 290 of USAID’s 10,000 employees would be laid off. Her eyes glistened on the verge of tears as she told an interviewer how her former colleagues’ bills for daycare and medical treatments would now go unpaid.

“People are really scared,” Drye said on the Sunday night broadcast. “I think that, you know, twelve days ago, people knew where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how they were going to pay for their kids’ daycare, their medical bills. And then, all gone overnight.”

Anchor Scott Pelley described a “chaotic shutdown” of foreign aid by DOGE head Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, both of whom have accused the pork-laden agency of doling out taxpayer dollars on “woke” agenda items preferred by the Biden-Harris administration. Some of those expenditures were detailed by DOGE over the weekend in its latest report, including $486 million for a vague “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening” program, including $22 million for an “inclusive and participatory political process” in Moldova and $21 million for voter turnout in India.

As it turns out, Drye and her counterpart on the show, former USAID worker Adam Dubard, were not employees at all. They were “consultants” hired by the agency after plum political careers working for Democratic politicians. According to a LinkedIn page found by the Daily Wire, Drye, a “speechwriter and communications analyst” for USAID, previously worked as a speechwriter for Samantha Power, the USAID administrator who was a senior aide to former President Barack Obama.

Dubard, who listed himself on his LinkedIn profile as a “Communications Analyst for XLA working with the USAID Public Engagement team within the Bureau of Legislative and Public Affairs (LPA),” had worked at USAID for less than a year.

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Drye, a “speechwriter and communications analyst” for USAID, previously worked as a speechwriter for Samantha Power, the USAID administrator who was a senior aide to former President Barack Obama.

I always assumed Power was among those actually running the Biden administration, along with Obama, Rice, Jarrett, Soros, et al. How many speeches did she give during her tenure, anyway?

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CBS is batting 1.000 on fake stories lately.

Dredging Rather back up does not seem particularly bright to me,

Nor does the lawsuit they are losing in court on the Harris interview.

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And these are the sources cited by liberals as "unbiased".

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I always assumed Power was among those actually running the Biden administration, along with Obama, Rice, Jarrett, Soros, et al.

Same.