Joe Borelli Ends up Agreeing with CNN Co-Panel that ‘A Scalpel Might’ve Been Better than a Sledgehammer’ in Cutting USAID Spending

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BORELLI: "I justify it by, again, there have been problems with USAID for many years. This is an agency that wouldn‘t answer some questions in Congress when Samantha Powers was testifying throughout the Biden Administration."
TANDEN: "Oh my God."
BORELLI: "This is — "
PHILLIP: "But, Joe, why not — "
BORELLI: "So we should just keep an agency?"
PHILLIP: "Hold on."
BORELLI: "I agree with you that a scalpel might have been better than a sledgehammer."
TANDEN: "Okay, well, then we agree. Okay. We agree."
(Laughter)
SELLERS: "All right, let‘s go to commercial break."