Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives.
ProPublica's Brett Murphy just appeared on @msnbc.com to to discuss his reporting with @annamaria.bsky.social on the fallout of the Trump administration's abandonment of its humanitarian commitments around the world. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/trum ...
-- ProPublica (@propublica.org) May 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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@#17 ... Keep USAID, but fund it voluntarily- ...
Congress did that when they passed funding laws for USAID, because Congress saw the benefit of such US soft power in the world.
But then, the world's richest person comes along and denies healthcare for the world's poorest and most vulnerable people.
Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths -- most of them children
www.thetimes.com
... As Elon Musk, the head of Doge, arrived at the White House on Friday afternoon to be congratulated by President Trump for his work slashing the federal budget, the number of deaths on Nichols's tracker hit 300,000, more than 200,000 of them children.
The "optics" of the world's richest man taking from its poorest and getting thanked for it were "horrifying', said Nichols, associate professor of global health at the university's school of public health. ...
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