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"Dismantling of the USAid program has begun this week, and will lead to a mere 290 of the more than 10,000 employees worldwide being retained, according to the New York Times. The former UK prime minister Gordon Brown lays out what this means:"
~ Clea Skopeliti
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange
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“The halting of landmine-clearing work in Asia … drug deliveries to fight the current mpox and Ebola outbreaks in Africa have been stopped … life-saving food lies rotting at African ports.”
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange
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"In the Middle East Bureau, in both Washington D.C. and overseas, only 21 employees will be actively working at the end of the day on Thursday. The Africa Bureau will retain 12 people, four in Washington and eight in different regional hubs."
~ Shannon Bond, Jenna McLaughlin, Fatma Tanis
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange
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https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/g-s1-46885/usaid-cuts-state-department-trump-rubio
"The Times identified more than 30 frozen studies that had volunteers already in the care of researchers, including trials of:
malaria treatment in children under age 5 in Mozambique
treatment for cholera in Bangladesh
a screen-and-treat method for cervical cancer in Malawi
tuberculosis treatment for children and teenagers in Peru and South Africa"
~ Stephanie Nolen
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange
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"nutritional support for children in Ethiopia
early-childhood-development interventions in Cambodia
ways to support pregnant and breastfeeding women to reduce malnutrition in Jordan
an mRNA vaccine technology for H.I.V. in South Africa"
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange
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"The problem is with these USAID programs, you can’t just hit pause. There is no pause. There’s either you’re going or you’re dead. ... And that’s just a gift to Putin and it’s a gift to Xi."
~ Greg Olear
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange
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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-the-traitors-are-in-charge
"In addition to the humanitarian disaster that’s unfolding because of the closure, and the geopolitical fallout as China generously (with some strings attached) offers to replace American assistance to fill the vacuum, the attack on USAID will also make it much harder for the developing world to reach its climate goals."
~ Doktor Zoom
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/killing-usaid-will-also-hurt-people
"Beyond food and medical help, the agency has been the chief US conduit for helping poor nations develop sustainably, helping them build renewable energy resources, mitigate the effects of climate change, and protect endangered ecosystems like rainforests and wetlands that sequester carbon and keep it out of the atmosphere."
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange
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"The richest man in the world has gleefully, callously announced his (illegal) efforts to put the foreign assistance program USAID 'in the wood chipper,' insisting it must 'die.'
So what if it means that he’s increasing starvation, the spread of disease and death throughout the developing world for millions of humans?"
~ Steven Beschloss
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/the-sociopaths-think-victory-is-theirs
"All that money, all that power, which could be used to improve and save lives has instead bought him an alliance with Trump and his sadistic mission to inflict pain, suffering and trauma."
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange
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Holly Berkley Fletcher writes about seeing the value of USAID when she was 9 years old living in Kenya with her US missionary parents, and a drought caused hunger in Africa. She then concludes,
"The overnight shuttering of the world's largest source of aid--by far--is irresponsible, inhumane, against US national interests, and just plain asinine."
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange
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https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/usaid-shaped-my-concept-of-america
"It’s also illegal, but when considering the deaths of children around the world, that seems like a trivial matter.
And let’s not mince words—It is EVIL.
For me personally, it's not just heartbreaking as an American adult and former government employee who is well educated on USAID's work."
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange
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"It's a devastation to that little girl, a long time ago, whose sense of being American was shaped by the arrival of food aid bags emblazoned with the stars and stripes.
That little girl thought America was good. This adult woman is rapidly losing faith."
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange
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"We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in U.S. history. … [Musk and Trump] have imperiled millions of lives, thousands of American jobs and billions of dollars of investment in American small businesses and farms while severely undermining our national security and global influence — all while authoritarians and extremists celebrate their luck."
~ Samantha Power, former USAID administrator
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/opinion/usaid-trump-samantha-power.html
"Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die. ...
We all gain if USAid can mitigate the spread of infectious diseases, prevent malnutrition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan, halt the upsurge of IS in Syria and support a fair, humanitarian reconstruction of Gaza and Ukraine."
~ Gordon Brown
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/07/donald-trump-elon-musk-usaid-poverty-america
@wdlindsy@toad.social"Franklin Graham runs a charity called Samaritan’s Purse, which gets $90 million from USAID. Graham says that he has gotten an exemption from the Trump administration for his ministry to keep getting its USAID money.
But Catholic Relief Services was not so lucky. They’ve already started laying off employees and shutting down relief programs."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange
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"On Thursday night, nearly 10,000 employees of USAID were informed that they were about to be fired, essentially gutting an agency vital to saving the lives of vulnerable communities around the world. USAID also purchases about $2 billion of commodities from American farmers, many of whom voted for Trump to be 'great again,' so good luck to them and their cratering fortunes."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/here-comes-president-musk-and-his
A meme shared by mollyploofkins about how Musk-Trump's shut-down of USAID is affecting and will affect farmers (many of whom voted for this to happen to them).
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange #agriculture #farmers
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"Children, in particular, are some of the most protected by USAID. Millions are provided healthcare, education, and more by the agency. Vaccine efforts and famine prevention protect countless more. The death of this agency would spell disaster for those children (not to mention the world at large, with the possibility of pandemics spreading)."
~ Elad Nehorai
Black and brown children, as Nehorai notes….
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange #children
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"According to insiders at the agency and internal emails obtained by Wired, Musk and his young racist Skibidi Totalitarians have inflicted some real American Carnage at USAID, already 'taking a team of over 10,000 down to just under 300.'”
~ Doktor Zoom
#Musk #Trump #USAID #HumanitarianAid #healthcare #food #ClimateChange #children
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"U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo. That includes American farms, which supply about 41 percent of the food aid that the agency, working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sends around the world each year, according to a 2021 report by the Congressional Research Service. In 2020, the U.S. government bought $2.1 billion in food aid from American farmers."
~ Daniel Wu
The supreme irony of this bone headed myopic move is that the desperation that gutting #USAID will increase will lead to more #undocumentedimmigrants
I am far more worried about the human cost than #immigration, legal or otherwise, but I could not help calling out how counterproductive this will be to #Trump 's own goals 
AND NOW... We see the way the US government is meant to work under the #AmericanClownEmperor
- Government money and help for Trump's friends, or those who pay a bribe, like nepo-baby Franklin Graham (see 
)
- Zero for everyone else
In short, a banana republic rife with corruption.
#ThisIsAmericaNow
@wdlindsy This:
""""
Donald Trump and JD Vance aren’t going to respond by saying, “These Untermenschen deserve to die.”
But you know who just might say that out loud? The ketamine-addled billionaire and his menagerie of 20-year-old incels.
If you’re a Democrat, that’s a contrast you embrace. Keep telling these stories and connecting them to Musk until he defends himself by saying something absolutely ghoulish. Make him radioactive, and let him dangle around Trump’s neck.
"""
@wdlindsy And add to that Canadians stopping to buy food from these farmers too....
Just like Brexit in the UK, the Farmers and Fisherman who depended on the imported labour and whose own Markets for their produce were in the EU, mostly voted Leave as well.
You can't help stupid.
@wdlindsy
They voted for this. Zero sympathy that they'll f'ing go broke quickly.
@CatHerder @wdlindsy They voted because they believed the rumor that immigrants were eating the dogs and cats 
@wdlindsy any rational thinking person would assume the farmers who sold their goods to USAID would now regret their choice or would vote otherwise next time ... Well, considering that even voters with Arabic roots and so many women voted for #OrangeFelon, I wouldn't hold my breath to see this happening. #JustLikeBrexit #YouCantFixStupid
#CognitiveDisconnect
@wdlindsy
USAID shuts down ag exports to the a Hungry World - Season 2, Episode #64 "What's the Matter with Kansas, Joy of the MAGA Sucker Punch"
Struggling family farmer, Ned Breedhoeffler, IV explains to wife Betsy that Trump can just go ahead and kick him in the balls one more time if Charles Koch can just get another tax break and that kid from Reno County keeps his undescended testees right where god put them.
@wdlindsy Wow. My friend Matt works for USAID.