France’s belated budget and USAID’s global influence 

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  First broadcast on 7th February 2025 on Monocle Radio.

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  Hello, and welcome to the Briefing.

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  Coming to you live from Studio one here at Midori House in London, I'm Andrew Muller.

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  Coming up on today's program, France has a budget and and still has a government.

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  But what is the next bump in the road?

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  Also ahead, the European Union begins filling sandbags in anticipation of a trade war with the United States.

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  Later in the show,

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  the scale of the damage done by US President Donald Trump's gutting of USAID begins to become apparent.

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  This whole process is completely chaotic.

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  They didn't do any study of what aid does.

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  In fact, the young people that work for Musk are.

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  They're techies.

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  They don't understand development work or emergency work.

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  I don't even know if they've ever traveled.

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  And we will hear from Monocle's team on the road and on the train in Switzerland.

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  That's all coming up right here on the Briefing on Monocle Radio.

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  And welcome to today's edition of the Briefing with me, Andrew Muller.

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  We have long

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  since passed the point at which everything broadly serene

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  and functional in French politics would be a bigger headline than crisis in French politics.

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