The former speechwriter for the United States Organization for International Development (USAID) appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday to deplorable federal workers facing financial challenges after losing their government status.
Christina Dry, who served under USAID administrator Samantha Power during the Biden administration, expressed disappointment at the financial reality awaiting employees of former agencies other than federal pay. Her appearance was a review of the agency program, after Elon Musk’s Government Efficiency (DOGE) effectively dismantled USAID in early February, and then reviewed the agency program to spend on social initiatives for the left, particularly Pro-LGBT. After billions of dollars were revealed. (Related: “Our Foreign Policy DNA”: How USAID hides behind humanitarianism to export radical leftist priorities overseas)
“People are really scary,” Dry said. “Twelve days ago, people knew where their next pay came from. They knew how to pay for their children’s daycare, medical bills, and everything went away overnight. It was there.”
“Twelve days ago, people knew where their next pay came from. They knew how to pay for their children’s daycare, medical bills, and everything was overnight. It’s gone,” says Christina Dry, who was fired for the USAID shutdown. https://t.co/cysoqteb8p pic.twitter.com/bucoanhmjs
– 60 minutes (@60 minutes) February 17, 2025
Dry began his position as USAID “Speech Writer and Communications Analyst” in October 2022. According to On her LinkedIn profile. She appeared separately in a CBS News interview outside the agency’s headquarters on February 3rd, where she lamented the loss of an employee who “given life to this job.”
“It’s absolutely heartbreaking. People who have been working for decades – this kind of job. They’ve given their lives,” she said. “Doge was in the building. We defeated the flag of pride. I took out a book that I felt was a crime. No one was talking about.”
President Donald Trump plans to fire everyone except 294 USAID employees and cut the agency’s global power by cutting over 9,000 people. According to To Reuters. The dramatic downsizing follows a Doge review that identified several initiatives funding sex change operations and technology censorship programs overseas during former President Joe Biden’s term. Characterized As a diplomatic responsibility. Power of former former USAID administrators It is listed Her desire to “incorporate LGBT rights into foreign policy DNA.”
“And they had to leave the building,” Dry continued on Sunday in “60 minutes.” “And these are people who had decades and decades of public services serving USAID across multiple administrations, and they couldn’t return to the building again.” (Related: Biden will end the period when fewer Americans were employed than five years ago as foreign-born jobs continue to skyrocket.)
During Dry’s Biden tenure, US workers have caused record inflation, high interest rates, high housing costs and growth in jobs for native-born Americans, but foreign-born jobs have been sought after. It surged to record.
Drye did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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