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Charity groups welcome Biden's new head of US Agency for International Development | The World

•Jan 22, 2021

ABC News (Australia)

Signalling a U-turn from the Trump days of "America First", Joe Biden has selected Samantha Power - the US ambassador to the United Nations under President Barack Obama - to run the US Agency for International Development. Speaking to The World, Former CEO of World Vision Australia Tim Costello says he welcomes the appointment.

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Australian Tim Costello: "As Joe Biden said, She is a voice of conscience. She has moral clarity."
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Samantha Power .. https://thehill.com/people/samantha-power , the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under former President Obama, said the move would also cut off U.S. funding for other health programs such as polio eradication and fighting HIV.
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