Nicholas Enrich — Into the Wood Chipper: A USAID Whistleblower's Account
USAID whistleblower Nicholas Enrich delivers a firsthand account of the Trump Administration's systematic dismantling of foreign aid infrastructure.
Why we picked this
A firsthand account from inside the dismantling of USAID — the kind of primary-source testimony that will define how this chapter of American foreign policy is understood.
The gutting of USAID has been one of the most consequential and least understood policy decisions of recent years. Nicholas Enrich offers something rare: a firsthand account from inside the agency during its systematic dismantling, documenting what was lost and who was affected.
This is not a policy analysis from the outside. Enrich was there, and his testimony provides the kind of granular, human-scale detail that abstractions about “government efficiency” tend to obscure. The book’s title — Into the Wood Chipper — captures both the violence of the process and the bureaucratic indifference with which it was carried out.
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