Albany area native Michelle Dworkin, back home after the Trump administration shut down USAID this year, ending her foreign service career, talks about people dying globally, disasters like Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica unanswered, taxpayer dollars wasted, and national security endangered by the ill-informed closure of that agency. Michelle Dworkin was, until 2025, a career foreign service officer with the US Agency for International Development. Over some 23 years, she served in Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Washington, DC. She possesses In-depth knowledge of government processes, congressional affairs, and project development. She lives now near Albany, NY, with her parents and daughter.