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**PART 1 – “Town‑Hall‑Style” Discussion (excerpted highlights)**Moderator: “Welcome, everyone. President Trump is considering folding USAID into the State Department and slashing most foreign‑aid programs. Speak freely; he wants to hear why he should —or shouldn’t—pull the trigger.”
01 White Gen Z Male (21.1 M | 6.3 %) “I’m a senior at a state university. I get the ‘America First’ pitch, but I also see climate disasters, pandemics, and refugee flows on TikTok every day. If we walk away, China will fill the vacuum. That hurts U.S. jobs long‑term.”
02 White Gen Z Female (21.1 M) “Foreign aid is barely 1 % of the budget. Cutting it won’t lower my student‑loan bill, but it will raise the number of girls abroad who can’t go to school. That feels wrong.”
03 White Millennial Male (22.2 M) “I’m a veteran‑turned‑contractor. USAID grants kept local allies employed in Afghanistan; that kept me safer. Roll it into State if you want efficiency, but don’t gut the programs.”
04 White Millennial Female (22.2 M) “As a small‑business owner exporting baby‑formula tech, USAID’s Trade Hubs opened markets for me in East Africa. Kill the hubs, and you hurt my bottom line.”
05 White Gen X Male (21.1 M) “Tax burden’s real. The Pentagon has plenty of security‑cooperation tools; why duplicate? I’m fine merging USAID—just make sure career diplomats don’t slow things down even more.”
06 White Gen X Female (21.1 M) “I’m PTA president in rural Ohio. Folks here want potholes fixed, not wells in Liberia. Show me domestic wins first; then maybe I’ll back overseas charity.”
07 White Boomer Male (25.5 M | largest single block) “Vietnam vet, Social Security recipient. We spent trillions abroad and got chaos. Shut the spigot. If aid matters to national security, let State run a lean version—but slash at least half.”
08 White Boomer Female (25.5 M) “Church mission trips rely on USAID seed money. I’m fiscally conservative, but my faith calls me to help the poor. Reform, yes; dismantle, no.”
09 White Silent+ Male (8.9 M) “At 80 I remember the Marshall Plan. Aid built allies that bought Buicks from Detroit. Don’t repeat the 1930s isolation mistake.”
10 White Silent+ Female (8.9 M) “Hospitals in Africa named after American nurses are goodwill we can’t buy with bombs. Keep that brand alive.”
11 Hispanic Gen Z Male (10.2 M) “Family WhatsApp lights up when hurricanes hit Puerto Rico and Honduras. USAID shows up first. Abandoning them looks like we don’t care about Latinos—inside or outside our borders.”
12 Hispanic Gen Z Female (10.2 M) “Migration pressures rise when aid drops. You want fewer people at the border? Keep development dollars flowing.”
13 Hispanic Millennial Male (8.6 M) “I send remittances home. USAID training helped my cousins start a coffee co‑op so they didn’t have to trek north. Economic aid is border security.”
14 Hispanic Millennial Female (8.6 M) “I vote in Arizona. Cuts feel anti‑Latino. Republicans need our swing vote.”
15–20 Hispanic Gen X through Silent+ echo variants of the above: skeptical of waste but see aid as migration‑control and soft‑power tool; older cohorts emphasize anti‑communism in Latin America.
21 Black Gen Z Male (5.9 M) “Flint still doesn’t have clean water. Fix home first, but keep HIV/AIDS funding in Africa—it’s a bipartisan success.”
22 Black Gen Z Female (5.9 M) “Cuts usually hit women’s health. That’s a non‑starter.”
23–30 Black Millennial to Silent+ stress moral leadership, link foreign and domestic justice, recall USAID work in Ebola and Haiti. Older Boomers tie aid to Cold‑War civil‑rights victories; some Silent‑era voices warn against ‘charity when our own neighborhoods crumble.’
31 Asian Gen Z Male (2.2 M) “I see Beijing’s Belt & Road plastered over my parents’ hometown in the Philippines. Pullback leaves the stage to China.”
32 Asian Gen Z Female (2.2 M) “USAID science exchanges let me intern at NIH. Soft power fuels STEM talent pipelines.”
33–38 Asian Millennial to Boomer argue commercial benefits, worry about China; Silent+ invoke WWII reconstruction memories.
39 Native Gen Z Male (0.50 M) “Indian Country often feels like a developing nation itself. If you’re cutting global aid, reinvest those dollars in tribal water and broadband.”
40–48 Native Millennials to Silent+ echo: redirect, don’t delete. Guard against broken treaty parallels abroad.
49 NHPI Gen Z Male (0.12 M) “Pacific islands are on the climate front line. Without USAID, military bases lose community support.”
50–58 NHPI peers support modest, climate‑focused aid; tiny budgets, big strategic payoff against China.