Ray Walser, professor of practice at Seton Hall University and retired U.S. Foreign Service officer: “As a retired Foreign Service Officer and a former policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank, I am appalled at the destruction of the Agency for International Development, a symbol of Uncle Sam’s benevolent face. Born of the Alliance for Progress and advanced in the spirit of the Good Neighbor Policy, USAID succumbs to the ire of an America First fringe minority anxious to inflict traumatic harm on thousands of dedicated professionals and disrupt a major instrument for supporting America’s strategic missions. This action hands a geopolitical win to our archrivals, China and Russia. Even the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 called for the State Department and USAID to work with Congress to better align the agency’s programs with American interests and the removal of woke and reproduction-related programs…”