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[https://www.reuters.com/world/us-aid-cuts-leave-food-millions-mouldering-storage-2025-05-16/ by Jessica Donati, Emma Farge, Ammu Kannampilly and Jonathan Landay 16/5/25 Reuters] | [https://www.reuters.com/world/us-aid-cuts-leave-food-millions-mouldering-storage-2025-05-16/ by Jessica Donati, Emma Farge, Ammu Kannampilly and Jonathan Landay 16/5/25 Reuters] | ||
The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programmes, according to three people who previously worked at the U.S. Agency for International Development and two sources from other aid organisations. | The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programmes, according to three people who previously worked at the U.S. Agency for International Development and two sources from other aid organisations. | ||
=====State Department Cables Reveal the Harrowing Consequences of Elon Musk’s USAID Demolition===== | |||
[https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/state-department-cables-pepfar-lesotho-malawi-usaid-elon-musk/ by Tim Murphy 4/6/25 MOTHER JONES] | |||
Elon Musk is trying to rewrite the history of his four-month tenure in Washington. As the billionaire founder of Tesla and Space X returns to the private sector after four months as a “special government employee,” he has put aside the celebratory chainsaw and cast himself as a misunderstood outsider whose dreams of efficiency were stymied by a terminally broken bureaucracy. | |||