Summary

The Trump administration has canceled 90% of USAIDā€™s foreign aid contracts, including critical programs that provide lifesaving therapeutic food to malnourished children.

Mana Nutritionā€™s CEO reports that ready-to-ship boxes of peanut paste that could save approximately 300,000 children are now stranded in a Georgia warehouse.

Despite Secretary of State Rubioā€™s claims that ā€œlifesaving humanitarian assistanceā€ would be spared, numerous essential health programs have been terminated, including those preventing diseases like polio, HIV, and Ebola.

These cuts contradict claims about targeting ā€œwokenessā€ or ā€œwaste,ā€ instead showing a reckless abandonment of Americaā€™s global humanitarian commitments.

  • Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    and wreck an ugly MAGA lie

    The problem is that MAGA people either donā€™t know about the problem, donā€™t care about the problem, or would actively harm foreigners (or American minorities, for that matter) if it put even a penny in their pocket or made them feel superior.

    Only the people that already know the republicans are lying their pants off know itā€™s a lie, a fact worsened by corporate news media and social media firms censoring the virality of anything that could hurt the far-right.

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      Thereā€™s always another believable lie. Some other reason why.

      My wifeā€™s best friend has a conservative brother that got fired under DOGE shenanigans. 6-figure job that they relocated him to Germany to do. Now he doesnā€™t know if theyā€™re even going to help him with relocating back to the U.S.

      He says this is just a normal pendulum swing in life/politics, and itā€™s a reaction to liberal overreach. ā€¦? Not an ounce of ire toward the people who actually did this to him.

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      Many just straight up donā€™t believe you when you tell or even show them. They think youā€™re brainwashed so they donā€™t take you seriously. They just believe Big Brother loves them and would never lie to them.