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[https://www.npr.org/2025/05/28/nx-s1-5413322/aid-groups-say-usaid-cuts-are-already-having-deadly-consequences by Gabrielle Emanuel, Steve Inskeep 28/5/25 npr] | [https://www.npr.org/2025/05/28/nx-s1-5413322/aid-groups-say-usaid-cuts-are-already-having-deadly-consequences by Gabrielle Emanuel, Steve Inskeep 28/5/25 npr] | ||
President Trump, with the help of Elon Musk, cut billions of dollars in global health programs earlier this year. The administration has dismissed the idea that that had much effect. Here's an exchange between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Democratic Representative Brad Sherman of California during a hearing last week. | President Trump, with the help of Elon Musk, cut billions of dollars in global health programs earlier this year. The administration has dismissed the idea that that had much effect. Here's an exchange between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Democratic Representative Brad Sherman of California during a hearing last week. | ||
=====USAID cuts had 'severe impact' on Somalia's economy, says development bank chief===== | |||
[https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/usaid-cuts-had-severe-impact-somalias-economy-says-development-bank-chief-2025-10-21/ by Reuters 21/10/25] | |||
U.S. President Donald Trump has slashed the country's foreign aid budget, and shuttered USAID earlier this year. The agency had supported health, education and development worldwide. | |||
