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.

  • cmbabul@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    So Iā€™m glad you said this, Iā€™ve been having a hard time the past week because I donā€™t see any way out of our current situation beyond what you have just described and itā€™s been stressing me because Iā€™ve both felt alone in my conclusions and not wanted to ask my friends, family, and coworkers if Iā€™m way out of bounds because I donā€™t want to make this time harder on them than I know it already is.

    Granted I still donā€™t feel great about the potentiality of losing my life in such events but Iā€™m grateful to you for making me feel less alone right now. Cheers!

    • stickly@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Appreciate that itā€™s getting through to some people. Its frustrating to think about but even more frustrating that people canā€™t call a spade a spade. The writing has been on the wall for years and our paralyzed inertia has taken us over the cliff. Willing that inertia to take us back is less than pointless.

      Itā€™s scary but also liberating in a way. Weā€™re as close right now to restoring the Roman Republic as we are the American Republic. Whatever comes out will be a blank skate and you get to write your own part onto it, whatever that may be.

      Crazy things do happen, nobody really knows how any story ends. Trump was a few inches from having this timeline dissolve in pink mist less than a year ago. Maybe some important people will explode in a Tesla fireball accident.

      Keep your head up šŸ»