Wednesday, July 02, 2025

Cutting USAID Will Cost 14 Million Lives Thru 2030

The Trump administration is formally shutting down the United States Agency for International Development today, after cancelling 83% of its programs earlier this year. The administration says the agency has misspent billions in funds and "has little to show since the end of the Cold War." That argument clashes with a new study published Monday in the medical journal, the Lancet. The study estimates that USAID programs have saved over 90 million lives over the past two decades. The researchers also estimate that if the current cuts continue through 2030, 14 million people who might have otherwise lived could die.

Posted by truthhurts at 10:47 AM | 31 COMMENTS | permalink

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The study estimates that USAID programs have saved over 90 million lives over the past two decades.

Thanks magat scum, children are currently starving to death

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children are currently starving to death

Sounds like a "their" country problem, not ours. We have homeless people here that need feeding.

#1 | Posted by boaz at 2025-07-02 11:25 AM

We have homeless people here that need feeding.

#1 | POSTED BY BOAZ

And whom MAGA are literally setting up to go hungry. At this moment.

You people are so mean it's made you crazy.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-02 11:31 AM

Klansman Fred Trump would be thrilled to see his rapist son slaughtering millions of black kids.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-02 11:56 AM

- Sounds like a "their" country problem, not ours

Is that a Jesus quote?

Someone didn't get the Good Samaritan story.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-02 12:10 PM

We have homeless people here that need feeding.

You care about them, do you? Or do you just mean homeless people that live within 5 miles of your house?

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-02 12:13 PM

" Sounds like a "their" country problem, not ours"

Same answer Cain gave God when He asked about Abel: Am I my brother's keeper?

#6 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-07-02 12:14 PM

The Samaritans were. btw, basically the hated 'Palastinians' of their day as far as Jews were concerned.

Jesus shocked his listeners with the story of Jews passing by an injured Jew on the road, and how it was a Samaritan who saved him.

Answering the question, 'Who is my brother?'.

All people are our brothers, sisters, and children... no matter where they are from.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-02 12:29 PM

To say nothing of the fact that saving millions of lives is a good thing to aspire to, doing this in the manner it was done is beyond cruel.

Just stripping the funding immediately without giving the recipients time to find replacement services is guaranteed to cause massive chaos in areas with limited capacity to adjust to changes

America is BY FAR the richest country in the world and this was literal pennies in our budget

THIS was the soft power that made America great, that inspired the world to follow our example, to work with us.

Who do you think poor and developing countries will prefer working with moving forward? The superpower that stripped funding and programs that was saving their citizens OR China who is investing in them, building them infrastructure, schools, clean water?

It is BEYOND stupid to have done this.

And just to inform you. Cutting USAID resulted in miracle foods that save starving children, grown and produced here in America, being stopped from being shipped to areas of need and rotting in warehouses. Literal food spoiling while children starve

And for those not aware, much of USAID funding went to American companies to provide the goods that were being used to help people

And USAID was providing medicines and vaccines to poor and developing countries. Stopping that will cause outbreaks of preventable diseases which will cause pandemics that will arrive on our shores.

In the history of stupid this action is definitely a hall of fame stupidity

#8 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-07-02 12:44 PM

We have homeless people here that need feeding.
#1 | POSTED BY BOAZ

You mean the people who you hate and wouldn't lift a finger to help?

The people who you vote, time and again, to make life worse for?

The people you consider worthless and moochers and not deserving of anything?

You're gonna use them to justify cutting support to millions of others?

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-02 01:46 PM

We have billionaires that need to become trillionaires

#10 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-07-02 02:33 PM

And yet you are 8.5X more likely to die in Europe due to their lack of air conditioning than you are to be killed in the United States by someone with a gun.

#11 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-07-02 02:39 PM


To say nothing of the fact that saving millions of lives is a good thing to aspire to, doing this in the manner it was done is beyond cruel.

This is poor thinking.

The reproductive rates in those countries is higher than in the First world. You're just inviting more problems. I am not saying let everyone die, but certainly there needs to be pressure on this rate. I see no reason China or America should support this reproduction rate.

#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-07-02 02:41 PM

- This is poor thinking.

Ah, good... you've found a title for your autobiography.

The dead and dying children must feel so much better knowing they are not going to be 'problems'.

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-02 02:47 PM

This is poor thinking.
#12 | POSTED BY ONELUMPYTUMOR

You're the idiot who posted:

you are 8.5X more likely to die in Europe due to their lack of air conditioning than you are to be killed in the United States by someone with a gun.
#11 | POSTED BY ONELUMPYTUMOR

You're the definition of poor thinking.

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-02 03:02 PM

The fake ----- is one ignorant ---- (Jeff).

#15 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-02 04:23 PM

We have homeless people here that need feeding.
#1 | POSTED BY BOAZ

There is no way you believe the government should be feeding anyone.

Especially not the homeless.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-02 04:30 PM

And whom MAGA are literally setting up to go hungry. At this moment.

There are enough charities which spend millions helping the poor in this country.

There is no way you believe the government should be feeding anyone.

I dont. And the government shouldnt.

I give to charities and I dont announce it to hypocrites like the liberals on this board.

#17 | Posted by boaz at 2025-07-02 05:54 PM

"There is no way you believe the government should be feeding anyone."

"I dont. And the government shouldnt."

And that's why your comment was a lie.

You deflected to our government should take care of people here.

But you don't believe out government should take care of people here.

And that's why your comment was a lie.

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-02 05:58 PM

There are enough charities which spend millions helping the poor in this country.

What's been preventing them from doing so?

What are they waiting for?


I give to charities
#17 | POSTED BY BOAZ

"Charities"

lol!

Keep your worthless money.

You aren't helping anyone but your ego.

Telling yourself that you're doing your part.

While voting for a political party that makes life more difficult for all.

#19 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-02 06:02 PM

"There are enough charities which spend millions helping the poor in this country."

millions

Oh, that's cute. Little Boaz thinks millions is enough to spend on hunger.

Meanwhile, back in reality;

How much does the federal government spend on SNAP every year?
About $100.3 billion during fiscal year (FY) 2024.

$100.3 billion

Boaz, you are a fool.

And you are fiercely proud of it too!

#20 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-02 06:13 PM

I give to charities
#17 | POSTED BY BOAZ

NRA, Heritage Foundation, and Soldiers of Odin.

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-02 06:17 PM

Abortion murdered 73 million babies worldwide. So what you complaining about 14 million when you cheer 73 million.

#22 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-07-02 06:21 PM

www.worldometers.info

#23 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-07-02 06:22 PM

nice whataboutism.

i care more about grown adults and children dying than a fetus. You would too if you weren't a deflecting moron.

#24 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-07-02 06:25 PM

Major B is like a lot of people who want to say they live in a Christian nation, then not observe any of Christianity's values. Almost none at all.

It's a really tired old ploy: it's ok to give to others if you do it yourself, but if you agree that we could do more if we do some things together as the People, well, that's just wrong.

It's utter nonsense, mostly touted by interests that are opposed to the whole idea of, "the People".

And have proved it by making corporations into Super Citizens with more money than God, and made money 'Speech'. God, who's kid more than once said that the love of money is the root of all evil, and that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven.

He added that, obviously 'all things' are possible, but he didn't sound like that was going to help the stupid, greedy, and arrogant bastards of the world.

#25 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-02 06:31 PM

Abortion murdered 73 million babies worldwide.
#22 | POSTED BY FORTFISHER AT 2025-07-02 06:21 PM | FLAG: doesn't understand what abortion means.

Worldwide???

You hate immigrants. Muslims. Poor people. Brown people. And most non white Americans.

You should consider 73 million potential people eliminated as a win.

#26 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-02 06:36 PM

#26
Not really. somehow you survived

#27 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-07-02 07:00 PM

"Abortion murdered 73 million babies worldwide."

Your drama queen act is completely unconvincing.
If you were pregnant, you'd want an abortion.

#28 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-02 07:13 PM

Who knew that plays about transgender is saves lives.

#29 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-02 10:14 PM

#29

Tell us of these plays.

Do you imagine them all the time or just when ------------ on the toilet?

#30 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-02 10:22 PM

Who knew that plays about transgender is saves lives.
#29 | Posted by BellRinger

It's just like you to pretend to be surprised, when confronted with real-world evidence of the "Liberal Agenda" making the world a better and more peaceful place.

#31 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-02 11:12 PM

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