Since the end of World War II, the United States has remained a global power through foreign policy defined by what retired Ambassador Ryan Crocker calls a "three-legged stool" of defense, diplomacy and development.

Five former leaders of the US Agency for International Development from across Republican and Democratic administrations have spoken out against the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the humanitarian agency and called on Congress “to swiftly protect the Agency’s statutory role.

A group of former leaders of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has opposed efforts by the Trump administration to dismantle the agency. In a statement, they urged Congress to swiftly protect the agency's statutory role,