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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.

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[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

and wreck an ugly MAGA lie

The problem is that MAGA people either don't know about the problem, don't care about the problem, or would actively harm foreigners (or American minorities, for that matter) if it put even a penny in their pocket or made them feel superior.

Only the people that already know the republicans are lying their pants off know it's a lie, a fact worsened by corporate news media and social media firms censoring the virality of anything that could hurt the far-right.

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[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So what I'm hearing is that peanuts and vitamins are gonna be cheaper?

And all it costs is several thousand lives in countries most Americans couldn't pick out on a map, and a bunch of anxiety for peanut farmers.

What a great deal. Nobody could have made a better, more Christ-like deal.

[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Also, they won't be cheaper.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But are they white American children?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They wouldn't care about those either. The only children they seem to care about, are unborn.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Dems should make some mention about this on the Sunday morning shows, if they were smart about it.

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[–] NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

No one dumb and selfish enough to vote for Trump will care about the suffering of people outside the US.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Are you implying they care about the suffering of people within the US? Because they verifiably do not...

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No, that's literally not what they implied. You're unironically doing the "so you hate waffles?" thing.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They literally implied that by including "outside the US", otherwise the inclusion of those words are entirely meaningless?

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