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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
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Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a result.
https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

@ZhiZhu@newsie.social replied · 2 weeks ago

"The cuts would cost countless lives... #Trump officials were told repeatedly. The team of aides pressed on...

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... the small band of appointees had set in motion its destruction."
- @ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#USAID #DOGE #ElonMusk #DonaldTrump #GOP #Republicans #USPol #Politics #News #Press #US #USA #UnitedStates #America

ProPublica

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

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Despite the steps to insulate themselves, dire warnings poured in from diplomats and government experts around the world. 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. — Text from article: Despite the steps to insulate themselves, dire warnings poured in from diplomats and government experts around the world. 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.

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Martin Holland

@fingolas@journa.host · 2 months ago

What a horrible horrible sentence.

"As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children."

600.000!!!

#ElonMusk #Doge #DonaldTrump #Trump #Musk #USAID

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands

The New Yorker

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

Martin Holland

@fingolas@journa.host · 2 months ago

What a horrible horrible sentence.

"As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children."

600.000!!!

#ElonMusk #Doge #DonaldTrump #Trump #Musk #USAID

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands

The New Yorker

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social · 2 months ago

Elon Musk was the face of DOGE, but records show that Russ Vought, Trump’s budget chief, played a key role in guiding DOGE behind the scenes.

Tomorrow at 6 p.m. ET, head to Reddit to ask our reporter Andy Kroll about Vought’s influence over the Trump presidency: https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1o8zj92/im_andy_kroll_a_propublica_reporter_i_just/

#RussellVought #Trump #ElonMusk #DOGE #WhiteHouse #Government #USPolitics #Reddit

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ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social · 4 months ago

Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief reveals to ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DOGE #SocialSecurity #Trump #Government #USPolitics

ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social · 4 months ago

#News #DOGE #SocialSecurity #Trump #Government #USPolitics

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ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social · 4 months ago

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old #DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the #Taliban took his family. 🧵

Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.

Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.

ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social · 4 months ago

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old #DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the #Taliban took his family. 🧵

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ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social · 5 months ago

Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejections for the same period a year earlier.

https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-hospital-shortages-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Veterans #Health #Medicine #Trump #Government #DOGE

ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social · 5 months ago

https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-hospital-shortages-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Veterans #Health #Medicine #Trump #Government #DOGE

ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social · 5 months ago

The Forest Service Claims It’s Fully Staffed for a Worsening Fire Season. Data Shows Thousands of Unfilled Jobs.
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DOGE cuts and voluntary resignations have severely hampered the agency as the nation enters the peak of fire season, with more than 1 million acres burning across 10 Western states.
https://www.propublica.org/article/forest-service-staff-fire-season?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Wildfires #DOGE #USPolitics #Forest #Fire

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ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social · 6 months ago

“ProPublica’s reporting revealed these cancelled contracts were delivering essential services … and exposed the cruel and dumb AI formulas DOGE bros used to cancel contracts,” Sen. Blumenthal said. “Veterans and all Americans deserve transparency.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-veterans-affairs-ai-senator-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#DOGE #Veterans #AI #Health #Government #Technology #Journalism #Transparency

ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social · 6 months ago

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-veterans-affairs-ai-senator-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#DOGE #Veterans #AI #Health #Government #Technology #Journalism #Transparency

ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social · 6 months ago

Senators Demand Investigation Into Canceled VA Contracts, Citing “Damning Reporting From ProPublica”
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The senators are calling for a federal watchdog to investigate the Trump administration’s killing of hundreds of VA contracts. Among their concerns: ProPublica revealed DOGE used artificial intelligence to mark contracts as “munchable.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-veterans-affairs-ai-senator-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DOGE #Veterans #AI #Health #Government #Technology