Into the Woodchipper

Nicholas Enrich's Into the Woodchipper is a first-hand account from a senior USAID official describing the agency's rapid dismantling during the Trump administration and the resulting collapse of life-saving programs.

The book details internal decisions, cancelled contracts, and the bureaucratic and ideological drivers that led to drastic reductions in humanitarian and development assistance.

Enrich chronicles the human cost of those policies, including increases in preventable disease, child deaths, and the weakening of global health and development infrastructures.

He combines memoir, whistleblower memos, and policy analysis to explain how short-term political choices yielded long-term global consequences.

The book argues for the necessity of a restored, independent international development agency to protect both human lives and American strategic interests.