#Trump’s #USAID cuts cripple American response to #Myanmar #earthquake
Three days after the quake, there are NO teams from the #UnitedStates on the ground in Myanmar, a stark illustration of how Trump has upended America’s role in disaster response.
#ForeignPolicy #ForeignAid #SoftPower #USpol #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/31/myanmar-earthquake-thailand-usaid-trump/
…One of #Trump's first acts…was to create #DOGE, [supposedly] to root out waste, fraud & abuse, slash govt spending & purge the federal workforce of low-performing, *disloyal* & unnecessary workers.
…In practice,…DOGE has mostly pursued long-time #Republican #policy objectives, shuttering agencies such as #USAID & the #CFPB, which provide a lifeline to the world's needy & protect Americans from unscrupulous lenders respectively.
"The same week that we were told that up to A MILLION KIDS COULD DIE abroad bc of cuts to the US aid budget here’s the official Twitter acct of the GOP-led House Foreign Affairs CMTE CELEBRATING THE DEATH/KILLING of #USAID. Hard to be more sociopathic than this."
-M Hasan
"This was actually tweeted by the US House CMTE on Foreign Affairs. The US Congress has become a frat house. The adolescent CHM is Rep Mast."
-M Fraser
CMTE: "USAID wasted YOUR tax dollars: DEI, Woke..."
#Sadism #Coup #USPoll
The "majority view" in #China sees some of #Trump's moves as an "own goal"
Da asserts that most Chinese people he talks w/viewed #USAID, the #ForeignAid agency, as one of America's strengths, improving its image & influence in the developing world. Virtually eliminating the agency was "in #China's interest."
Da said he learned some of his English in college while listening to #VOA broadcasts & also learned news that wasn't reported in the Chinese media.
Da acknowledges that in recent years, VOA was less important as the internet spread. But he says another agency mattered more: the U.S. Agency for International Development (#USAID).
US-Außenminister Rubio kündigt komplette Auflösung von USAID an
Die US-Entwicklungshilfe war für Tausende Projekte weltweit verantwortlich - mittlerweile ist sie weitgehend zerschlagen. Nun hat Außenminister Rubio das endgültige Aus von USAID zum 1. Juli bekanntgegeben.
Washington confirme la dissolution de l’USAID https://www.election-politique.com/index.php?display=M
State Department formally notifies Congress it is effectively dissolving #USAID [illegally] https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/politics/state-department-formally-notifies-congress-effectively-dissolving-usaid/index.html
In an email to #USAID staff, Jeremy Lewin, a #DOGE ofcl who took over running the day-to-day ops at USAID from Pete Marocco on March 20, said the RIFs would go into effect either on July 1 or Sept 2.
This comes as the #Trump admin wraps up the dismantling of the 64-year-old USAID, having terminated some 5,200 contracts, & moves forward with its plan to shift the remaining portion of its work to the #State Dept.
The #Trump admin is terminating nearly all of the remaining 900 employees of the #USAID, in a final reduction-in-force #RIF.
Virtually no one will be spared, not even political appointees, acc/to 2 snr USAID ofcls….
Staff were ordered to leave "the front office" by 1PM on Fri for reasons that are not clear, the ofcls said. But they may still be asked to continue working for a few months.
#Musk #DOGE #Aid #geopolitics #SoftPower
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/28/g-s1-56968/usaid-terminates-nearly-all-its-remaining-employees
"OK, Musk, challenge accepted.
Specific line items on #DOGE's wall of receipts, explaining how these violated the Rubio guidance on protecting lifesaving activities.
A blanket purchase #USAID order for humanitarian kitchen sets. Wasteful?
USAID KITCHEN SETS HAVE THEIR OWN ENTRY IN THE NAT MUSEUM OF AMERICAN #DIPLOMACY.
#DOGE could've take 10 seconds to google that.
Another CXL contract: bulk purchase of Aquatabs -purifies water so that it's fit for HH consumption."
-J Konyndyk
Liberals only care about expanding US imperialism through soft power organizations like VOA and USAID.
Trump’s administration is using barbarism power.
It is time for a socialist revolution.
"Trump administration moves to formally abolish USAID, an action Congress has not yet authorized."
Abolishing USAID should be impeachable on the grounds of public health, national security, human rights…
concerns.
Trump is doing Putin’s bidding!
#USAID #HumanitarianAid #HumanRights #Hunger #PublicSafety #Health #USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/28/trump-presidency-news/
“Yet”?
“ #Trump administration moves to formally abolish #USAID, an action Congress has not yet authorized” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/28/trump-presidency-news/
Tell me this is not all at the direction of #putin. The #Trump administration has terminated more than 5,300 #grants and #contracts managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development #USAID worth more than $27 billion, according to a document obtained by POLITICO. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000195-d4ba-dc7d-add5-f6fe93e40000 #foreign #aid #statedepartment #budget #vaccines #food #healthcare #HIV #AIDS
China Is Stepping in to Replace Where USAID Left https://www.byteseu.com/869323/ #analyst #Beijing #business #BusinessInsider #China #ConstructionProject #country #DevelopmentAssistance #JeremyChan #lim #NationalInterest #NewProgram #NortheastAsia #shoe #US #usaid
The #TrumpMusk regime is letting children DIE bc #DOGE defunded the 64-yr-old #USAID. This precious child is DEAD, & others will suffer & die.
"It was indeed difficult to obtain photos of the orphans who had died bc of the collapse of USAID: Bc they were dead, I couldn't photograph them, & impoverished orphans don't leave photo archives. But this is Evan Anzoo, from a social worker who helped him before he died when USAID stopped providing his 12-cents-a-day med."
-N Kristof
"#Trump admin to end funding for vaccinating children in poor countries"
"This is so fucking cruel. Withholding $300M. That's 0.004% of the $6.8T budget last year. They're willing to let 8 million kidsdie over the next 5 years to save 0.004% of the US budget. How much are we spending on rooms at Mar-a-Lago when he's golfing?"
-Dr R Davidson
Amplify this preventable "genocidal," catastrophe. This can be reversed.
#USAID #DOGE #Musk #Republicans #Resist #Firings #USPol
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5216013-trump-administration-gavi-vaccine-fund-elon-musk-doge/
The decline of democracy in Asia is especially severe, with many former success stories now backsliding. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/03/27/world/democracy-collapsing-in-asia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #asia #democracy #india #indonesia #us #usaid #ned #aid
