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.

  • Soup@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    And yea most of what I was saying was in regards to their accessibility not changing all that much unless you happened to live right there.

    I agree with the needing to live amongst their constituents. They donā€™t use the same infrastructure, experience the same weather effects, or otherwise need to engage with much of what their policies affect. Protest shouldnā€™t be the way things get done; having a representative that actually represents in the first place should be the play. Luckily, those two things can be made possible in the same way.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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      Yep, also itā€™d be annoying for lobbyists groups. Rather than having a maybe a handful of teams in DC wining and dining nearly every Congress Critter theyā€™d have to spread them across nearly every district. Which opens up the possibility of elimination of corporate lobbyists simply by running them out whenever they get setup.