Samantha Power: “The challenge the world faces today is clear, that decades of development gains... are now at serious risk.”

This is no way to treat public servants, and it is no way to advance America's interests.

USAID has not authorized gain of function research.

In Ukraine, for example, USAID has helped farmers withstand Putin's attempts to destroy the agricultural sector.

This is devastating, and it is ceding the field as well to the people's Republic of China, to the Russian Federation and other malign actors who would like nothing more than to see the US' ground game in American foreign policy -- the face…