Fmr. USAID Global Health Lead: ‘I Can’t Find a Better Buy for American Security and for Humanity’ than USAID

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GAWANDE: "Well, let me jump in a little bit on this. There have been six years of inspector general reports, going back to the first Trump Administration and the current — the Biden Administration. They reviewed and audited 94% of USAID spending. They found 0.3% that was questionable. They recruit half of that. So the notion that there is extraordinary widespread fraud, this is a program that I led global health on half the budget of my hospital system up in Boston, and they were reaching hundreds of millions of people and saving people’s lives by the millions. There probably is ways to make it more efficient, but I can’t find a better buy for American security and for humanity."