Ro Khanna
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11,318 appearances
156 recordings
40 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
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And so Musk is able to accurately cite a decent number of foreign leaders in Central America or Africa who say, you know what, actually USAID is not helpful to us.
We don't, we think that it's,
overly interventionist and undermines our internal politics obviously you can you know both things can be true and you can protect the formula for infants while also addressing um the the political dimension but what is your what is your response to that critique that that there are a lot of people in africa and in south and central america we're like yeah actually we don't like usaid
I acknowledge some of the critique.
And if he had come in to reform it, he could have come to Congress and made those arguments.
And maybe he would have gotten some support.
And this is why I say that initially I was open minded about Doge.
Sometimes journalists ask me that as a gotcha.
Oh, you were open-minded about it.
I said, that's not a gotcha.
Yeah, I was open-minded about it.
I'm usually open-minded to working with people for constructive solutions.
And he would have found an audience if he had said, look, well, I want to go after programs that are
overly interventionist and undermining popular sovereignty in other nations, maybe he would have gotten even Democrats, progressive Democrats, to do that.
But he didn't do that.
He basically took a sledgehammer with no one's input by fiat, as he himself says, and put it in a woodchopper.
And that's why we have so many potential deaths.
Now, in the rebuilding, and this, I think, is a broader point, in the rebuilding of all of these agencies,
We want to do it with human rights, with progressive values, with a sense of what the future is going to require and not just let's just, you know, get Samantha Power back in there and do exactly what we were doing in the past.
And that's the opportunity why I think we can have a new deal for our time, that there could be really a rebuild of government around a progressive vision, around an effective vision for government.
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