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(NewsNation) — An worker laid disconnected from USAID past week defends the ngo of the embattled agency but says it has go a bureaucracy riddled with inefficiencies.
Rob Cohen, a doc and U.S. Army veteran, said helium agrees Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency tin find discarded wrong the United States Agency for International Development, which the Trump medication has targeted for steep cuts.
“Reform is needed, and Elon Musk and his squad are not wholly incorrect astir that,” Cohen told “NewsNation Prime” connected Saturday. “But successful the process, they’re throwing the babe retired with the bath water, firing tons of bully employees — I would add, specified arsenic myself.”
Cohen worked astatine USAID from 2016 arsenic a contractor and civilian servant. He said helium stands down the agency’s humanitarian work, including its palmy effort to guarantee millions of HIV-positive mothers gave commencement to steadfast babies done cause therapy.
But the bureau is encumbered by regulations that tin pb to delays successful assistance, helium said.
“A batch of the dollars were targeted astatine a bully place. It was the delay. It was the inefficiency. A batch of clip the procurements would instrumentality longer than a year.”
Cohen said helium was elevated to go USAID's lawman main of unit but faced pushback aft identifying problems.
