A segment on Sunday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend featured an interview with Kathleen Borgueta, who had lost her job at USAID due to cutbacks by the Trump administration.
Substitute host Maria Teresa Kumar called USAID "God's work."
At the end of the segment, a deeply moved Jonathan Capehart told Borgueta:
"I'm going to stop talking because I'm going to burst into tears."
Borgueta came across as pleasant and well-spoken. It turns out that she is also a left-wing activist.
As per her LinkedIn profile, in the past Borgueta was a "peer educator" at Planned Parenthood.
And while employed at USAID during the Trump administration, Borgueta was also actively involved with an organization called "Supermajority. As per its website [emphasis added]:
"After the 2016 election, women all over the United States were on fire about the rollback of our freedoms. Supermajority co-founders Cecile Richards, Ai-jen Poo, and Alicia Garza were being stopped on the streets by women asking what they could do next. So in 2019, they launched Supermajority, an organization focused on making women the most powerful voting bloc in the country. "Today, we’re a community of more than 530,000, made up of women of all backgrounds, races, and ages who are ready to build a powerful women’s voting bloc to ensure our leaders prioritize the issues that matter most to us."
Let's consider the founders of Supermajority.
- The late Cecile Richards' name will be familiar to many readers. She was a former president of Planned Parenthood.
- Ai-jen Poo is a labor activist and union organizer.
- Alicia Garza was a co-founder of Black Lives Matter.
So, Supermajority was founded because women were angered "after 2016" [i.e., the election of Trump], and is dedicated to creating "the most powerful voting bloc in the country to ensure our leaders prioritize the issues that matter most to us."
In other words, while part of the Trump executive branch, Borgueta was working to promote a left-wing agenda, defeat Republicans, and elect liberal Democrats.
As for Kumar's statement, imagine the "separation of church and state!" screeching in liberal land if a conservative called for funding a government agency because it was doing "God's work!"
And nothing says "God's work" like USAID grants of $15 million for condoms to the Taliban, $3,315,446 for “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean,” and $1.5 million to promote job opportunities for LGBTQ individuals in Serbia.
To quote Capehart, it's enough to make you "burst into tears!"
Note: During the segment, Capehart read a letter that a "kid" had written to liberal Democrat Sen. Ralph Warnock of Georgia, pleading that unless her mother's job and those at USAID are restored, "our country is just going to fall apart." Precocious "kid!" You don't think Mom might have had a hand in writing it, do you?
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
The Weekend
7/27/25
7:44 am EDTJONATHAN CAPEHART: Senator Warnock last week posted one of the letters he received from a kid. And here's a kid's letter I think we have here. "Dear Senator Warnock, I'm writing to you because I care about my mom and I want her to have her job. I think it's important because my mom's job was helping children and families throughout America and without this support our country is just going to fall apart. Also without other departments like USAID. Can you please help by making good laws or protecting our government? Thank you for working hard for our state. Sincerely, me." And then puts a little note, "sorry about my handwriting."
KATHLEEN BORGUETA: The handwriting is an issue, but I think their voices really come out strong. And looking at these letters and hearing from these kids, they have opinions. They're, you know, starting to learn about how our government works.
And I like to think that maybe someday they'll help hold us all accountable to those virtues and values.
MARIA TERESA KUMAR: So one of the things that, you know, watching this administration sledgehammer our institutions and all these families involved, and to what you're saying is that especially USAID, it is God's work. It is helping the most vulnerable. What impact is that having on the children? Because I think that oftentimes these decisions are made, and they're not realizing the real stress and anxiety that we're actually placing on this generation.
BORGUETA: As somebody who worked for decades in maternal and child health, I think about the babies and the children around the world who are suffering. But also as a mother now personally here who's lost my job, I'm seeing it firsthand.
. . .
CAPEHART: I was just going to say, I mean, I'm smiling ear to ear because, but while also trying to hold it together because you, Kathleen, exemplify public service. I mean, you're going through this tough time and yet you are here, smile on your face, joyful warrior, trying to help other people.
This is, I'm going to stop talking because I'm going to burst into tears. Kathleen Borgueta, thank you very much for coming to The Weekend.
