Trump Regime Celebrated After USAID Cuts

 

In a report from ProPublica this morning, officials of the cruel and mentally ill Malignant Fascist's regime celebrated after slashing the USAID program, which provided food and other humanitarian assistance to starving countries.  While this fits the ugly, demonic profile of the current regime, acts of this perversity still shock.  From the article:

"On the one-month anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration earlier this year, a group of his appointed aides gathered to celebrate.

For four weeks, they had been working overtime to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, freezing thousands of programs, including ones that provided food, water and medicine around the world. They’d culled USAID’s staff and abandoned its former headquarters in the stately Ronald Reagan Building, shunting the remnants of the agency to what was once an overflow space in a glass-walled commercial office above Nordstrom Rack and a bank. 

The cuts would cost countless lives, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the other Trump officials were told repeatedly. The team of aides pressed on, galvanized by two men who did little to hide their disdain for the agency: first Peter Marocco, a blunt-spoken Marine veteran, and then 28-year-old Jeremy Lewin, who, despite having no government or aid experience, often personally decided which programs should be axed. 

By the third week in February, they were on track to wipe out 90% of USAID’s work. Created in 1961 to foster global stability and help advance American interests, USAID was the largest humanitarian donor in the world. In just a month’s time, the small band of appointees had set in motion its destruction.

In a corner conference room, it was time to party. They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake."  (our emphasis)

The devastation that the virtual abolishment of USAID has caused in what the criminally depraved MF would call "shit hole countries" may result in hundreds of thousands of deaths in the months since vital aid was cut off.  The regime's attempt to calm the furor over the devastation was, of course, full of deceit:

"By now the broad story of USAID’s ruin has been widely told: The decree handed down by Trump; Elon Musk, who led the new Department of Government Efficiency; and Russell Vought, who holds the purse strings for the administration as the head of the Office of Management and Budget, to scuttle the agency and undo decades of humanitarian work in the name of austerity. Publicly, the administration tried to temper international backlash by promising to keep or restore critical lifesaving programs. 

But that promise was not kept." (our emphasis)

ProPublica's article begins with recap of what they found:

Early Warnings: Trump officials were told that cutting aid to South Sudan would exacerbate a deadly cholera epidemic. They did so anyway. 

Aid Charade: Even as lifesaving programs closed in South Sudan, Rubio and other officials maintained they were still active and that no one had died. We found that wasn’t true.

A Surging Outbreak: After the funding cuts, cases in South Sudan spiked. It’s the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history. 

This is the first in a three part ProPublica investigative series, so there's more to come in documenting this crime.  It's important information on the wrenching repercussions of USAID's demise that you won't see reported on in detail by the broken corporate media.  It's a permanent stain on America, thanks to the degenerate monsters including the MF, Elon Musk, Marco Rubio, Russell Vought and others that instigated this in our names. 

(photo: Sudanese woman with cooking oil provided by USAID. Farah Abdi Warsameh / AP)