‘Soft Power Suicide’: Samantha Power on One Year Without USAID
· 25 min
Episode ‘Soft Power Suicide’: Samantha Power on One Year Without USAID
On July 1, 2025, the US effectively ended operations of the United States Agency for International Development, the global aid organization founded in 1961, cutting most staff and moving it into the US State Department.
Samantha Power, who led the agency under President Biden until early 2025, joins David Gura on the Big Take podcast to look back at what was lost, internationally and at home.
You can watch their conversation — on Ebola, Iran, Israel and Gaza — on Bloomberg.com.
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Hosted by David Gura; Produced by David Fox; Edited by Jeffrey Grocott and Aaron Edwards.
Fact-checking by Laura Newcombe; Engineering by Emma Munger.
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