Without Foreign Assistance, More Americans Are At Risk At Home And Abroad. Without Foreign Assistance, States Have To Cough Up Billion Dollar Solutions For Problems That Costed 28 Million Dollars. Without Foreign Assistance, America Loses On The World Stage.
When Donald Trump and Elon Musk dismantled USAID last year, thousands of civil servants were recklessly fired.
This was devastating for them, and the millions of people they assisted globally.
USAID is American leadership at its best, and our world is worse off without them.
Last night, I watched Rep. Lois Frankel passionately defend #USAID at a candidate forum in her district.
I could not be more proud of our team for making over 80,000 phone calls this week alone to reelect this champion of global development.
Let's get out the vote for soft power
Gotta say this then I'm out, USAID was the most effective US govt counterterror program of the last 60 years and far cheaper too, it was 1% of the federal budget. You want to stop people from putting on suicide vests or joining DAESH, feed their kids.
I worked for USAID when It was closed, these guys literally were firing senior Foreign Service Officers with 30 years of experience on the spot. These kids were drunk on power and a reckoning is coming. I will always be hot about this shit. I know for a fact we allowed children to die because of these snotty shits.
The dismantling of USAID has already ensued in roughly 600,000 deaths, about 400,000 of them children, in poor nations abroad, according to Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols.
The toll is expected to rise as health infrastructure that became reliant on Western support deteriorates, resulting in deaths that may take months or years to register.
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Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, gutted USAID, which supports some of the poorest people in the world.
Now there's an Ebola outbreak in the Congo, which USAID could have helped prevent or slow.
When you dismantle the systems that stop deadly diseases, people needlessly die.
Hundreds of Ebola cases have been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including 136 deaths tied to the outbreak, according to health officials.
CBS News' @RamyInocencio has landed in neighboring Uganda, a country that is considered the first line of international defense against the growing outbreak.