Section 2 · The Common Defense
🌍Ch. 9 — Agency for International Development
USAID · 15 tracked
Cut aid to Iran-aligned states and steer Middle East aid through Abraham Accords
Proposed
Mandate says foreign aid must advance the Abraham Accords and that USAID should consider cutting aid to states allied to Iran while using aid to strengthen anti-Iran regional trade/investment alliances.
Restore Clear Choice counter-China architecture and condition aid on resisting Beijing
Proposed
Mandate urges restoring Trump-era Clear Choice infrastructure, ending climate framing that advantages China, assessing bilateral aid through national-security lens, financing anti-China programs, and cutting partners that engage Chinese entities.
Rescind USAID Climate Strategy and stop treating USAID as a climate agency
Proposed
Mandate directs rescinding climate policies from foreign aid (specifically Climate Strategy 2022–2030), shutting Paris-Agreement offices/directives, limiting traditional mitigation, ending collaboration with progressive climate partners, and ceasing the war on fossil fuels in developing countries.
Dismantle USAID DEI offices, scorecards, contract clauses, and debar DEI partners
Proposed
Mandate calls for eliminating Chief Diversity Officer/DEI advisers/committees, canceling DEI scorecards, stripping DEI from awards, ending LGBTQ+ agenda promotion, creating retaliation adjudication channels, cutting DEI partners, dismissing agitators, and returning civil rights to the Office of Civil Rights.
Replace Gender Equality office with Women, Children, and Families; purge gender terms
Proposed
Mandate would rename GEWE, reallocate resources, appoint a pro-life Senior Coordinator, eliminate 180+ gender advisors, rescind Biden Gender Policy, revise gender integration regulations, and scrub websites/contracts of gender/abortion/reproductive-rights language.
Reinstate and expand Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance to all foreign aid
Proposed
Mandate seeks an EO restoring PLGHA (Mexico City), blocking UNFPA, closing loopholes by covering all foreign assistance including humanitarian aid, applying to U.S. NGOs and multilaterals, mandating compliance reports, and retaining Helms as a complete abortion-funding ban.
Restore USAID international religious freedom architecture and EO 13926 funding
Proposed
Mandate says the next Administration must champion religious freedom, train staff, integrate IRF into CDS updates, strengthen faith-leader ties, and have Congress fund persecuted minorities per EO 13926.
Install political Senior Procurement Executive and restore SOAR award reviews
Proposed
Mandate wants a political Senior Procurement Executive/M/OAA director, political visibility into large awards, restored SOAR (or similar) policy reviews above thresholds, and standard PLGHA/multilateral accountability clauses in all instruments.
Force localization quotas and expand New Partnership Initiative agency-wide
Proposed
Mandate says replicate PEPFAR’s jump to ~70% local funding across USAID, expand NPI to every bureau, reset mission NPI plans with minimum local/new-partner percentages, favor fixed-amount awards, and eliminate cost-plus preferences for aid giants.
Deeply cut IDA accounts and term-limit chronic humanitarian responses
Proposed
Mandate would work with Congress for deep IDA cuts ending programs in places like Yemen/Syria/Afghanistan seen as captured by malign actors, require country exit strategies, shift from U.N./global NGOs to local faith entities, and force unused IDA authorities and stricter vetting.
Dual-hat DFC chief development officer with USAID; end climate/DEI DFC focus
Proposed
Mandate seeks structural dual-hatting of DFC’s chief development officer with USAID and restoring DFC to commercial risk-reducing finance instead of climate, diversity, and gender-focused uses.
Make Brand Management Senior Advisor a political enforcer of U.S. flag branding
Proposed
Mandate builds on Trump ADS 320 branding policy, making LPA’s Senior Advisor for Brand Management a political appointee enforcing branding on every instrument and coordinating with USAGM for local media pickup.
Name USAID Administrator as State Director of Foreign Assistance (F)
Proposed
Mandate would dual-role the USAID Administrator as State F Director with Deputy Secretary rank, reorient F staff from budget formulation to execution, kill duplicative resource requests, and fast-track 653(a) reports and Congressional Notifications.
Pilot Schedule F at USAID and impose SES Mobility rotations
Proposed
Mandate makes USAID a Schedule F pilot under reinstated EO 13957, expands Schedule A hiring, places a political CHCO, and reworks SES via mandatory mobility/details.
Freeze ADS changes then rewrite all major USAID policies within one year
Proposed
Mandate orders an immediate ADS/policy freeze, moves ADS processing to a politicized Budget/Policy office, and requires amending or withdrawing all major agency policies within the first calendar year.