USAID ‘whistleblower’ assesses U.S. response to Ebola : NPR
Nicholas Enrich worked for the United States Agency for International Development under four administrations and was dismissed after leaking memos detailing plans to shut it down. He writes about the end of USAID — and his role in the response to a 2025 Ebola outbreak — in his new book, Into the Woodchipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID. Simon & Schuster hide caption toggle caption Simon & Schuster In March 2025, Nicholas Enrich was the top U.S. official for global health when two major events were happening at the same time: The Trump administration was dismantling USAID, and an Ebola outbreak was spreading in Uganda. It was Enrich’s job to manage the U.S. response. He says he was stymied at every turn. “I was told by one of the political appointees, who was the head of the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, that Ebola is a scam,” Enrich says. A year later, as the worst Ebola outbreak in more than a decade spreads in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Enrich …
