Trump global aid cuts risk 14 million deaths in five years, report says

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal.

A third of those at risk of premature deaths were children, researchers projected.

Low- and middle-income countries were facing a shock "comparable in scale to a global pandemic or a major armed conflict," said Davide Rasella, who co-authored the report.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in March that over 80% of all programmes at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) had been cancelled. The Trump administration has taken aim at what it sees as wasteful spending.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2jjpm7zv8o

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Link to the report: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext

[wolfie001]

1. MAGA Hitler numbers!

Big Beautiful Hitler numbers! The biggest!

[travelingthrulife]

2. The GOP can't be shamed by this. It is their goal.

Same with the concentration camps. My evangelical christian brother, now deceased because he refused to treat his cancer properly, used to say they were for those who refused to accept Christ.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. "refused to accept Christ." I guess that is a Missionary's mission. Jam it down their throats. Crusades inspired. n/t

[Seinan Sensei]

13. Shamelessness

is GOP’s Superpower

[Botany]

3. Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths -- most of them children

When Brooke Nichols plugged in the data, she couldn’t comprehend what she was seeing.

The mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University had created a model to predict the human cost of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (Doge) USAid funding cuts.

Snip

As Elon Musk, the head of Doge, arrived at the White House on Friday afternoon to be congratulated by President Trump for his work slashing the federal budget, the number of deaths on Nichols’s tracker hit 300,000, more than 200,000 of them children.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/usaid-doge-deaths-children-cuts-7nb83dfkp

[Turbineguy]

4. But if you want to be worse than Stalin

it's a success in the making.

[SpankMe]

5. He's literally a merchant of death. n/t

[republianmushroom]

6. Hope each and ever one of them is MAGArat.

With the big blond one first.

[electric_blue68]

7. Can't quite spell a paticular word where what a person does is is because the have No Conscious...

Lots of others - heinious, hideous, extremely unethical etc.

Plain folk, often poorer, and their children will suffer, sicken, and possibly to probably die.
"..makes me want to holler..."

[LudwigPastorius]

8. "Trump global aid cuts risk 14 million deaths in five years"

Yeah, but most of those people are brown, black, or yellow, so....

[mathematic]

9. I had no idea America was saving so many millions of lives around the world

Where was this news report last year when people that want to continue American foreign aid could have used it to convince people that think American foreign aid is harmful to Americans or to the world that they were wrong.

There wouldn't be so many isolationists in this country if more people knew how beneficial American foreign aid is.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. I don't know when Trump admitted he felt like stopping the vast majority of non-military aid

Everyone did seem shocked when they did it this year. As far as I knew, this was a surprise (unlike, say, the mass deportation of immigrants, for which he'd said several times before the election he wanted to chuck out up to 20 million people).

[mathematic]

11. Ending all foreign aid has been a long simmering goal of all sorts of isolationists.

Project 2025 had the more modest goal of eliminating foreign aid that didn't serve a conservative purpose.

A common statement among opponents of foreign aid is "why are we giving money to THEM when we have people that need it here?". Trump's "America First" political identity draws in these kinds of people. So it's not a surprise that Trump would want to do this, even if it's a surprise that he did. It seems to be a very disputable interpretation of Congressional spending law so it makes sense that it seemed to come out of nowhere but it was definitely there as a sentiment.

I think a lot of people, when posing the above rhetorical question, could be convinced that foreign aid is good and should continue. It's a lot harder to sell when they only hear arguments about why foreign aid is bad or that the purpose of foreign aid is to create closer ties with America (which is true) but without talking about how those closer ties come from improving the lives of people in those countries.