"Millions of Lives at Risk": USAID Cuts Lead to Global Rise in Death, Hunger, Poverty and Disease

[Uncle Joe]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered the termination of all remaining overseas employees of USAID to complete the dismantling of the six-decade-old agency. USAID was an early target of Elon Musk and DOGE. We look at the dismantling of USAID and what it means for people around the world to lose this lifeline, as detailed in a new Amnesty International report. "We talked to somebody who actually saw IVs being ripped out of arms when the stop-work order came down," says Amnesty's Amanda Klasing, who describes the consequences of the U.S.'s retraction of critical aid to countries in the Global South and refutes the Trump administration's claims that no deaths can be traced to the cuts. Now, lacking funding from the wealthiest country in the world, aid workers like Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council are turning to other countries' governments to bridge the gap. Egeland says, "The U.S. is leaving international solidarity and compassion completely," even though, as Klasing notes, "It's been the leader of humanitarian aid, and it should remain so."

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[sop]

1. Did Rubio include a bible verse with his order? Revelation 6:8 would be appropriate:

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."

[SWBTATTReg]

2. This is disgusting. Where are all of the bible thumpers? Where are all of those that preach charity and kindness

towards others, etc.? It's amazing that none of these so-called bible thumpers who make sure that everyone sees them thumping their bibles, screaming, etc., and yet, let people go hungry.

Despicable.

[Midnight Writer]

3. "Mission Accomplished!"

For whatever unfathomable reason, they want this.

My uneducated belief is that because there is no corporate profit motive to help the sick, the hungry, the poor, our elected leaders (who care only about the rich) decided it is best just to let them die off.

No poor. No problem.