Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in Washington.
The visit that moved me the most was to a remote area that used to have no health care, where women routinely died in childbirth. Then a US-funded maternity clinic opened through @UNFPA in December, and not one woman has died since. I showed up, and people mistakenly thought I was responsible for the clinic. One new mom wanted to name her baby for me, and the village elders thanked me and hailed America's generosity. What they didn't know was that Trump/Musk had cut all funding for UNFPA and that as a result the maternity clinic will close this month, and women will once again be bleeding to death in the dust.
Here's a giftlink to my report from ground level about what the shutdown of USAID means: https://t.co/tbgKk7ESqj
Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s dismantling of USAID will lead to millions of preventable deaths.
The decision of the richest person in the world to destroy an agency that delivers life-saving aid to the poorest people on the planet is unconscionable.
@KosSamaras Labor candidate was very weak. Listening to him on radio at town hall His answers to simple questions on health, policing, infrastructure, etc showed he had limited grasp on community priorities or vision to solve.
@RealWillHarter @McFaul It’s normal to step down from a job with some lead time.
Campaigning to commit for four more years is not in any way equivalent to seeing out the remaining 6 months of an elected term.
@DunnCaro2 @TonyHWindsor@TimWilsonMP@zdaniel Tim Wilson is a “new liberal” who did nothing to moderate the worst impulses and directions in his party. He paid the price and is now out in the cold, and as such is even less equipped to do the thing he previously had no appetite for when enabled.