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One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal memos estimated.

The USAID programs were cut anyway.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-rubio-usaid-musk-death-toll-malaria-polio-tuberculosis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency

One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimated. The programs were cut anyway.

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Mar 3, 2025 at 10:12pmWeb
Show threadToni AittoniemiMar 3, 2025
@ProPublica These people voted to make other people suffer. They rejoice in this. These are the facts.
Show threadCorb_The_LesserMar 3, 2025
@ProPublica #Musk probably told #Trump that the #USAID officials reporting the dire consequences of destroying the agency were lying to protect their jobs. Had they believed the warnings, they would assume their victims would be black, and they would not care.
Show threadLightning Bjornsson*  Mar 3, 2025
@Corb_The_Lesser @ProPublica The dire consequences encourage these people. #lang_en
Show threadKeithMar 3, 2025
@ProPublica this makes me so angry 😡. The world’s richest man is literally killing hundreds of thousands of the world poorest people.
Show threadCats Are CoolMar 3, 2025
@ProPublica wow, Europe should really do something about it.
Show threadJeffandthekidMar 4, 2025
@ProPublica But they make the trains run on time!
Show threadiveylineMar 4, 2025
@ProPublica Who cares about a bit of humanity when the top 1% stand to gain $4.3 trillion in tax cuts in the coming years. Poor people are disposable.
Show threadlemgandiMar 7, 2025
@ProPublica You mean China won't pick up the slack? /s
Show threadMarc SbrothersMar 7, 2025
@ProPublica Hope all that evil will be paid some day. But it won’t take the dead back 😡😢
Show threadAlexa FontanillaMar 7, 2025
@MarcSbrothers
#PostOfTheWeem (season 2):
Instead of acting on the repeated warnings, top administration officials, including the State Department’s director of foreign assistance, Peter Marocco, thwarted their own experts’ efforts to keep the U.S. Agency for International Development’s most vital programs up and running, according to internal memos and estimates compiled by global health leaders at the agency and obtained by ProPublica.