Sob fest alert! Won’t someone think of the poor USAID employees who got canned? That’s the boost 60 Minutes gave the organization yesterday.

It’s too soon to tell how serious President Trump is in defiance of the Constitution. In his first 28 days, he signed an order to nullify birthright citizenship for some—a right guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. And he has closed agencies and frozen spending that Congress mandated by law. Lower courts are holding up many of the president’s priorities, but nothing has risen to the Supreme Court where these battles over presidential power could rewrite history. Presidents often push limits — FDR’s New Deal for example — and voters in this last election wanted change. But the scope and speed of Trump’s reach for power may be unprecedented. One example is a 63-year-old agency created by Congress, codified in law and eviscerated, by Trump, in a matter of days.

Kristina Drye: People are really scared. I think that, you know, 12 days ago, people knew where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how they were gonna pay for their kids’ daycare, their medical bills. And then, all gone overnight.

Yes indeed, 60 Minutes went full propaganda banger and then some yesterday. 

Adam Dubard: They’re not looking for competency. They’re not looking for– if you are good at your job. They’re looking for pure loyalty tests and if you don’t give it, you will be punished.

Kristina Drye: And they had to leave the building. And these are folks who had decades and decades of public service serving USAID across administrations from, you know, George Bush, to Obama, to the first Trump administration. And they were never able to walk back in the building again.

Keep in mind, what 60 Minutes is promoting is that government employees are sacrosanct. No one is allowed to fire them, not even the President…who is THEIR BOSS. 

As we’ve noted, USAID has had a history of funneling money across the world into very sketchy programs. Such as this list:

How could anyone be mad about DOGE cutting wasteful spending?? pic.twitter.com/JI8x3qNhbH

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 16, 2025

Or this list:

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1886514546946228404

Did no one at USAID ever take a step back and ask themselves, does funding a transgender comic book in Peru make any kind of sense? Or, is funding circumcision in Mozambique something that people in Mozambique even WANT? The lists of what has been funding by USAID is insane. Why does the American Bar Association need money from USAID? I could go on. Meanwhile, India would like a word.

After the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said it had cancelled a $21-million grant to the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) for “voter turnout in India”, Sanjeev Sanyal, an adviser to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, called USAID the “biggest scam in human history”.

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“Would love to find out who received the US$21mn spent to improve “voter turnout in India” and the US$29mn to “strengthening political landscape in Bangladesh”; not to mention the US$29mn spend to improve “fiscal federalism” in Nepal. USAID is the biggest scam in human history,” Sanyal posted on X.

Seems to me, India didn’t ASK for nor want that funding from USAID. So where did it go? 

Meanwhile, CBS is also providing us with reports on how shocked and upset government employees are that their jobs have been canned so impersonally. By a letter or an email, with no handholding. 

Probational federal employees who lost their jobs on Thursday as part of the Trump administration’s mass firing of government workers expressed shock and anger at the terminations, which they contend will hurt the government’s ability to provide services.

President Trump is moving quickly to shrink the U.S. federal government — the nation’s largest employer — saying he is slashing wasteful spending and pushing to make the nation’s civil workforce more responsive to his administration’s policies. Federal workers in a probationary period typically have less than one year on the job and have not yet gained civil service protection.

Do you know what that civil service protection is? You are in that position for life. You know what? There are three other presidents who kicked government employees to the curb. Reagan, who fired air traffic control employees. The other two? Clinton and Obama. 

WATCH: Former President Obama once spoke about cutting wasteful spending through sweeping executive action, using tactics similar to those President Trump and DOGE boss @elonmusk are employing today to save taxpayers billions. The difference? This time, Democrats are freaking out pic.twitter.com/6tHsTO5Vjx

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 16, 2025

Here’s another VERY big problem with the 60 Minutes banger sob fest about USAID. The so-called fired employees that they highlighted. 

What’s the problem? OH. 

https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1891309278037782653

So, she wasn’t ACKSHUALLY a true USAID employee. Nope, she worked (s?) for the speechwriting group who had a contract to write speeches for Samantha Power, who is sitting quite well on piles of cash these days. Oh, but Kristina’s work history is replete with DEI and more. It seems she’s quite the fan of Malcom X, Howard Zinn, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, and Ta-Nehisi Coates among others. 

https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1891328973365260469

That’s who 60 Minutes chose to highlight for their USAID sob fest. Furthermore, they unironically aired this sob fest while also championing censorship in Germany as Deanna highlighted here. That’s the OTHER problem with this. USAID has funneled money to those censorship efforts. 

These 2 things aired the same episode, because these 2 things are related. USAID has been funding all of Europe’s censorship organizations. pic.twitter.com/IuHPBOehne

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 17, 2025

Yes, the two are tied together. 

But we are supposed to feel sorry for all the government employees who’ve been let go. When 60 Minutes airs this kind of tone-deaf sob fest, my sympathy meter pegs at less than zero. 

Feature Photo Credit: USAID flag along with Pride and American flags outside USAID headquarters in DC via Flickr, cropped and modified