The #Trump admin intends to terminate the #UnitedStates’ financial support for #Gavi, the org that has helped purchase critical #vaccines for #children in developing countries, saving millions of lives over the past quarter century, & to significantly scale back support for efforts to combat #malaria, one of the biggest killers globally.
#US to End #Vaccine Funding for Poor Countries
A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by NYT lists the #Trump admin’s plans for thousands of #ForeignAid programs.
#USpol #geopolitics #GAVI #USAID #SoftPower #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/health/usaid-cuts-gavi-bird-flu.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=0B1E1CC6-D21C-41FD-BBF7-6EF340A550AA
A federal appeals court temporarily halted a lower court's order that #USAID reopen its HQs.
The 4th Circuit issued an administrative stay of US District Judge Theodore Chuang's order until Thursday, an indication it will decide in the next 48hrs on the #Trump admin's request for a stay while a full appeal is heard.
The Baltimore judge found last week that the efforts of #ElonMusk & #DOGE to largely dismantle USAID “likely violated the United States #Constitution in multiple ways."
U.S. President Donald Trump and his advisers have ushered the United States into a new era of post-truth politics, where facts are contested and fictions used to pursue policy goals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/25/world/politics/second-term-trump-machinery-misinformation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #republicans #donaldtrump #elonmusk #jdvance #canada #china #mexico #trade #usaid
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total freeze in US foreign aid funding and programming.
Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands want their unspent money back from USAID
Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands provided millions of dollars that the United States was supposed to spend for low-income countries. Then the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s government-cutters arrived.
A combined $15 million they contributed for joint development work overseas has been parked at the U.S. Agency for International Development for months.
Elon Musk lashes out at US judges as they rule against Doge
#Musk lambastes #judges as leftwing activists in more than 20 posts as #Trump admn’s judiciary clash intensifies
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/22/elon-musk-doge-judges-usaid
"In the days after a federal judge ruled Elon Musk’s dismantling of #USAID likely violated the #constitution, [Musk] issued a series of online attacks against the #American judiciary... & called on #Congress to remove his newfound legal opponents from office."
It’s A Start: Musk & DOGE Take Their First Real Hit
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/its-a-start-musk-and-doge-take-their-first-real-hit/
"So the [Trump] govt tried a “foil a judicial order with this one quick trick!” maneuver by converting a #DOGE staffer into a #USAID official, which would then seem to grant him the mantle of legitimacy to effectively ratify his team’s own illegitimate actions. But it didn’t work: the court subsequently reiterated that the injunction kept anyone connected with DOGE out of the agency’s business"
Millions are being denied HIV treatments , TB is resurgent, and polio appearing. because this shithead can't handle having a transgender daughter
#Politics #DOGE #USAID #healthcare
h/t @JessicaBRiedl
"In mid-February, Trump administration leaders received a desperate warning from their diplomats posted in Vietnam, one of the most important American partners in Asia.
Workers were in the middle of cleaning up the site of an enormous chemical spill, the Bien Hoa air base, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio abruptly halted all foreign aid funding. The shutdown left exposed open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange, which the American military sprayed across large swaths of the country during the Vietnam War. After Rubio’s orders to stop work, the cleanup crews were forced to abandon the site, and, for weeks, all that was covering the contaminated dirt were tarps, which at one point blew off in the wind.
And even more pressing, the officials warned in a Feb. 14 letter obtained by ProPublica, Vietnam is on the verge of its rainy season, when torrential downpours are common. With enough rain, they said, soil contaminated with dioxin could flood into nearby communities, poisoning their food supplies.
Hundreds of thousands of people live around the Bien Hoa air base, and some of their homes abut the site’s perimeter fence, just yards from the contaminated areas. And less than 1,500 feet away is a major river that flows into Ho Chi Minh City, population 9 million.
“Simply put,” the officials added, “we are quickly heading toward an environmental and life-threatening catastrophe.”"
They received no response from Washington, according to three people familiar with the situation.
Instead, Rubio and Peter Marocco, another top Trump appointee, have not only ordered the work to stop, but they also have frozen more than $1 million in payments for work already completed by the contractors the U.S. hired."
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-halted-agent-orange-cleanup-dioxin-vietnam-poison-risk
How Elon Musk Is Getting Around Judge Orders to Keep DOGE Out of USAID
Elon Musk & his colleagues have a sinister plan.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192981/elon-musk-doge-plan-control-usaid
"Sect of State #MarcoRubio has appointed an official from Elon Musk’s #DOGE to head #USAID—the very same day a federal judge ruled that DOGE could no longer mess around with the federal agency. Now #Musk may be able to continue ripping the development organization to shreds."
"• The Trump Administration targeted private universities — canceling $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University; pausing $175 million for the University of Pennsylvania; and Johns Hopkins cut research after losing $800 million in USAID grants
• Trump began dismantling Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Radio Free Asia"
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #DOGE #fascism #destruction #chaos #universities #research #grants #USAID #VoiceofAmerica
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So far this year @ProPublica has reported on who's working for #DOGE, the impacts of cuts on agencies like #USAID, and a lot more. Reporting on abuses of power matters more than ever before.
This is the last day of our spring member drive you can give as a member. As always, I would love the #fediverse to be represented in our member base. It matters.
If you have the means, please consider joining as a member through a gift of any amount: https://give.propublica.org/give/346423/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=ben #journalism
“American manufacturer of food for malnourished babies lays off staff amid USAID funding upheaval.”
I wish we could make some citizen’s arrests. Letting children starve is abominable.
#USAID #HumanitarianAid #Malnutrition #MalnourishedChildren #Starvation #Hunger #FoodScarcity #GOPDeathCult #Trump #Musk #DOGE #Rubio #Resist #USPol https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-manufacturer-of-food-for-malnourished-babies-lays-off-staff-amid-usaid-funding-upheaval/
Stand Down, Elon Musk
A court ruling rips the billionaire head of DOGE for his unauthorized actions, but can only go so far to rescue a doomed agency.
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/stand-down-elon-musk
"yesterday’s ruling from #Judge Theodore Chuang of the federal district of #Maryland was the first time any judge has directly addressed the illegality of Musk’s appointment as head of #DOGE and then ordered his actions unwound."
#PeteMarocco, the #State Dept ofcl who oversaw the #Trump admin’s efforts to dismantle the main govt agency distributing foreign #aid, announced in an email on Tues night that he would be replaced at the agency by 2 officials who had been involved in making the cuts.
Marocco said in the email that he would remain at State as director of #ForeignAid, but that 2 other officials would handle what remains of the #USAID.
2 Officials Who Helped Dismantle #US #Aid Agency Are Named as Its New Leaders
Secretary of #State #MarcoRubio said he had canceled 83% of #USAID’s programs. A federal judge found that efforts to shutter the agency were likely #unconstitutional.
#law #USpol #Trump #Musk #DOGE #ForeignPolicy #SoftPower #TrumpPurge
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/usaid-doge-leadership.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=1B3ACA71-70A6-4630-8DE3-5A77E2B20013
Al Jazeera reporting on #Russia backed fake news proliferating in #Africa.
Remember this whenever various Africans are trotted out to rail against the evils of #USAID support in their countries. cc: @cybeardjm
Despite Elon Musk and President Donald Trump's claims that U.S. aid cuts aren't causing harm, shutting down vital programs like PEPFAR and USAID in South Sudan is already killing children. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/03/19/world/us-aid-cuts-are-deadly/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #usaid #donaldtrump #elonmusk #us #ebola #doge #aid #southsudan #africa
