Cut USAID back to its 2019 budget level
What the document says“The next conservative Administration should scale back USAID’s global footprint by, at a minimum, returning to the agency’s 2019 pre–COVID-19 pandemic budget level.”
The chapter asks for the agency's global footprint to be scaled back to at least its 2019 level, for its programs and structures to be, in its word, deradicalised, and for deep cuts to the international affairs 150 Account while giving the agency more flexibility over how it spends what remains.
What the document actually says“The next conservative Administration should scale back USAID’s global footprint by, at a minimum, returning to the agency’s 2019 pre–COVID-19 pandemic budget level.”
Make this agency smaller. Take its budget back to what it was in 2019.
This agency sends aid to poor countries. Its budget grew during the pandemic. The book says it should go back to the 2019 level.
Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid
2025-01-20 · 90 FR 8619
Addresses the chapter's subject of scaling the agency back, by a different route. The chapter asked for a return to at least the 2019 budget level and deep cuts to the international affairs account, which requires Congress; this order pauses and reviews existing assistance under executive authority.
The book asked that the aid agency shrink back to its 2019 budget. That takes an act of Congress. This order pauses and reviews aid already granted. It uses the President's own power, so it meets the same aim by another route.