A Reagan administration joke depicted a Bureau of Indian Affairs administrator sobbing at his desk. “What’s wrong?” The bureaucrat responded, “My Indian died.” 
Like the best political humor, it uses a ridiculous scene to illustrate a truth. Bureaucracies eventually exist for the bureaucrats. 
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) demonstrated this truth for more than six decades without, unfortunately, providing a laugh. On Tuesday, it ceased to exist. (RELATED: The Trump Administration Sets Its Sights on the Parallel Government)
Do you also turn its funeral into a party this weekend? The complete cessation of any department, bureau, agency, or even program of the federal government, after all, occurs more rarely than does the Fourth of July. This is a victory for everyone who believes in restrained government. The fact that next-on-the-chopping-block NPR laments its passing proves this. (RELATED: Uncle Sam Just Conducted Its Final April 15th Pledge Drive for PBS and NPR)
Started during the peak of the Cold War, the initial purpose, whether stated or not, of USAID involved providing money to poorer countries as a means to prevent their slippage into the orbit of the Soviet Union, whose class-warfare rhetoric had already seduced denizens of many such countries. But for most of USAID’s existence, the Soviet Union did not exist. 
Perhaps a USAID bureaucrat somewhere cried when his Communist died. But bureaucracies prove more resilient than people or even ideologies. They are hard to kill. Just ask Elon Musk. 
They also tend to wander from mission. This seems to be a key component that explains why the Trump Administration so easily abolished the agency. 
USAID gave nearly $80 million to EngenderHealth, an abortion outfit that, as Dr. Thomas Williams points out, was started as the Sterilization League of New Jersey. It spent tens of millions on gay initiatives abroad, including transgender healthcare in India and Vietnam, Scottish gender identi...