Politics Want to Be Democrats’ Nominee for President? Pledge to Bring Back USAID. Any responsible candidate for office should have a plan to rebuild an agency that saved millions and millions of lives. Ro Yassin Abdumonab/Reuters Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development has taken a devastating toll, with more than 750,000 lives already lost —most of them children—due to the cuts, and far worse yet to come. The reckless destruction of USAID stands out as one of the most costly decisions of the Trump administration to date. That decision, however, does not have to be a permanent one.…