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#USAID

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Kim Perales

"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 image features a tweet from House Foreign Affairs with video of Trump, Vance, Musk… carrying a coffin with the USAIS emblem, accompanied by a comment from another user critiquing U.S. foreign policy. The post includes engagement metrics like likes and retweets.
A screenshot of a Twitter thread featuring two posts. The first is a message criticizing the understanding of soft power in government, mentioning Russia and China. The second post responds with "I don’t hear you defending it. DEFUNDED!" along with engagement
A cartoonish boar wearing a helmet appears on a background of dollar bills. The text reads "WHAT THEY FUNDED WITH USAID" and features the acronym "WTF!" prominently. The USAID logo is also included.
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Foucauld Pérotin ❦ ⧖⃝🇺🇦

J’aimerais que toutes les grandes ONG médicales et humanitaires (MSF, Médecins du monde, Action contre la faim, CCFD, etc.) et les grandes institutions mondiales (OMS, Unicef, Croix-Rouge, etc. – je ne connais pas si bien le statut de chacune) lancent un appel solennel conjoint aux pays de l’OCDE et aux instances supranationales comme l’UE, pour compenser ce que les US font perdre à l’humanitaire mondial par leur désengagement.

Ça demande du courage, parce que des prises de position dans ce sens des chancelleries comme des acteurs de l’humanitaire vont déplaire à Trump, mais il est indispensable de réagir fortement.

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#USAID#HumanitarianAID
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Foucauld Pérotin ❦ ⧖⃝🇺🇦

LA FRANCE, L’EUROPE, TOUS LES PAYS DE L’OCDE HORS USA, DOIVENT IMPÉRATIVEMENT AUGMENTER MASSIVEMENT ET RAPIDEMENT LE VOLUME DES PROGRAMMES D’AIDE HUMANITAIRE ET MÉDICALE PARTOUT DANS LE MONDE OÙ C’EST NÉCESSAIRE !

Je l’ai écrit en petit avant, ça ne marche pas du tout 😊

Je n’en peux plus d’entendre « le démantèlement de l’USAID et la réduction à la portion congrue de ce qui restera sont catastrophiques » en même temps que « coupes claires dans les budgets de l’aide au développement dans l’UE, pour financer l’effort de défense » Et l’humanitaire ? No comment, mais on est désolés.

C’est insupportable !

Aussi, j’aimerais…

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#USAID#HumanitarianAID
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Nonilex

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).

#Geopolitics#USpol#SoftPower
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Denise G

Trump says the US will help in Asia quake. A former official says the system is now in ‘shambles’

President Trump said Friday that the U.S. was going to help with the response to Southeast Asia’s deadly earthquake.

But the effects of his administration’s deep cuts in foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department will likely be tested in any response to the first big natural disaster of his second term.

#USAID
apnews.com/article/trump-earth

In this image provided by The Myanmar Military True News Information Team, Damaged buildings caused by an earthquake is seen Friday, March 28, 2025, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (The Myanmar Military True News Information Team via AP)
AP News · Trump says the US will help in Asia quake. A former official says the system is now in 'shambles'By Ellen Knickmeyer
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Laffy

Good grief!

Via Kyle Cheney:

JUST IN: The 4th circuit court of appeals has cleared the way for Elon #Musk and DOGE to continue operating in #USAID, staying a lower court’s ruling that barred DOGE’s activities.

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Nonilex

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.

#Musk#Aid#geopolitics
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Nonilex

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
npr.org/sections/goats-and-sod

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Kim Perales

"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

The kitchen sets:
An aide worker with boxes of Aquatabs:
#USPol#Aid
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