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What Will Be Left Of USAID?

2025/2/7
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Donald Trump
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Jane Koston
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Lindsay Branham
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Marco Rubio
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Tommy Tuberville
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Jane Koston: 特朗普政府计划大幅削减美国国际开发署的员工数量,埃隆·马斯克试图摧毁该机构,导致许多重要项目暂停。我将与Lindsay Branham讨论资金暂停和裁员的影响。 Lindsay Branham: 我在刚果民主共和国的第一个工作是与一个USAID资助的组织合作,从事食品援助和水及卫生项目。USAID的预算只占联邦预算的很小一部分,但对美国利益和就业有很大影响。我们最近在巴西的一个USAID资助项目收到了停止令,这对涉及全球金融和供应链基础设施的大型项目来说是不可想象的。数百万人的生命依赖于抗逆转录病毒药物,但他们无法获得这些药物,婴儿出生时无法获得预防HIV感染的药物,人们将会并且已经因为这项政策而死亡。我认为90天的暂停只是一个幌子,我们没有人相信这个过程能够进行,因为没有员工来执行90天的审查过程或实施它。这是一个两党支持的机构,不能单方面解散,两党都必须站出来反对总统,法院必须追究他们的责任,这不仅是外国援助的问题,也是我们的宪法和民主的问题。我们不接受解雇员工,我们将继续做我们应该做的好工作,并维护我们与世界各地建立的关系,我们不会容忍这种情况。 Marco Rubio: 对USAID的调整是为了消除浪费,继续有效的项目。

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The Trump administration's drastic cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are causing alarm. Thousands of projects are paused, and thousands of employees face layoffs. This chapter explores the impact of these cuts on global health initiatives and the people who rely on USAID's aid, as well as the political motivations behind them.
  • Trump administration plans to retain only 300 USAID staffers out of 10,000+
  • Thousands of USAID projects paused, impacting global health initiatives
  • Concerns about the political motivations behind the cuts and lack of transparency

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The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development continued Thursday. Multiple news outlets reported the Trump administration plans to retain fewer than 300 agency staffers — out of more than 10,000 worldwide. Millions of the world’s poorest people rely on on the foreign aid agency for basic needs like food, medication and water. But that hasn’t stopped Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, from trying to feed USAID “into the wood chipper.” Lindsay Branhum, a humanitarian filmmaker who’s worked on USAID-funded conflict resolution programs all over the world, explains what the cuts mean for people on the ground.

And in headlines: DOGE turns to A.I. in its quest to dismantle the federal government, the Justice Department sues the state of Illinois and Chicago over sanctuary city laws, and rapper Kendrick Lamar prepares to headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

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