“Gutting USAID is a travesty, and it’s a tragedy. Because it’s some of the most important work happening anywhere in the world,” Obama said.

Bush, Obama and a tearful Bono fault Trump’s gutting of USAID on agency’s last day Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration.

Bono joins Obama and Bush in bidding emotional farewell to USAID workers fired by Trump: “You were the best of us” “Gutting USAID is a travesty, and it’s a tragedy,” Obama added ...

He jokingly hailed the USAID staffers as “secret agents of international development” in acknowledgment of the down-low nature of Monday’s unofficial gathering of the USAID community. Bono spoke ...