Douglas Murray rips into Bono's ‘rotten' claims about USAID
Author Douglas Murray claims Bono is 'generous with other people's money' after he shared his advocacy for USAID.
'The judgment of Elon Musk, the DOGE team and indeed President Trump, was that they looked under the bonnet of what was there at USAID … and decided that the whole thing was so rotten, and there was so much unaccountability that it just wasn't worth saving, it was worth scrapping,' Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
'When Bono speaks like this, he seems to forget … this is money that American taxpayers work for and hand over to the federal government to be well used.
'USAID's money was not well used; it was an incredible political entity.'
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