Summary
The Trump administration has canceled 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts, including critical programs that provide lifesaving therapeutic food to malnourished children.
Mana Nutrition’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 Rubio’s claims that “lifesaving humanitarian assistance” 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 “wokeness” or “waste,” instead showing a reckless abandonment of America’s global humanitarian commitments.
While I still think it’s not a very strong excuse, the distance thing, I do very much agree with the rest.
I lost track of what was supposed to be my point. Probably should’ve illustrated it at the end of my comment. My underlying thesis is that it’s easy to just ignore emails, mail, phone, and text. It’s a lot harder to ignore folks in person. So the distance ain’t the core issue per se, but it’s exaggerating a very notable issue with the DC bubble.