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#USAID

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Laffy

Good grief!

Via Kyle Cheney:

JUST IN: The 4th circuit court of appeals has cleared the way for Elon #Musk and DOGE to continue operating in #USAID, staying a lower court’s ruling that barred DOGE’s activities.

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Nonilex

In an email to #USAID staff, Jeremy Lewin, a #DOGE ofcl who took over running the day-to-day ops at USAID from Pete Marocco on March 20, said the RIFs would go into effect either on July 1 or Sept 2.

This comes as the #Trump admin wraps up the dismantling of the 64-year-old USAID, having terminated some 5,200 contracts, & moves forward with its plan to shift the remaining portion of its work to the #State Dept.

#Musk#Aid#geopolitics
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Nonilex

The #Trump admin is terminating nearly all of the remaining 900 employees of the #USAID, in a final reduction-in-force #RIF.

Virtually no one will be spared, not even political appointees, acc/to 2 snr USAID ofcls….

Staff were ordered to leave "the front office" by 1PM on Fri for reasons that are not clear, the ofcls said. But they may still be asked to continue working for a few months.

#Musk #DOGE #Aid #geopolitics #SoftPower
npr.org/sections/goats-and-sod

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Kim Perales

"OK, Musk, challenge accepted.

Specific line items on #DOGE's wall of receipts, explaining how these violated the Rubio guidance on protecting lifesaving activities.

A blanket purchase #USAID order for humanitarian kitchen sets. Wasteful?

USAID KITCHEN SETS HAVE THEIR OWN ENTRY IN THE NAT MUSEUM OF AMERICAN #DIPLOMACY.

#DOGE could've take 10 seconds to google that.

Another CXL contract: bulk purchase of Aquatabs -purifies water so that it's fit for HH consumption."
-J Konyndyk

The kitchen sets:
An aide worker with boxes of Aquatabs:
#USPol#Aid
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Catherine Morris

Myanmar: Urgently facilitate access to #humanitarianaid for earthquake survivors. ‘Responding to reports of widescale damage from a 7.7-magnitude #earthquake reported in…#Myanmar, Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher Joe Freeman said: “This earthquake could not come at a worse time for Myanmar... At the same time, the impacts of #USaid cuts…are…starting to bite.’
amnesty.org/en/latest/news/202

Amnesty International · Myanmar: Urgently facilitate access to humanitarian aid for earthquake survivorsResponding to reports of widescale damage from a 7.7-magnitude earthquake reported in central and other parts of Myanmar, Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher Joe Freeman said: “This earthquake could not come at a worse time for Myanmar. More than three million people remain internally displaced from armed conflict that has raged since the 2021 military coup. […]
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Kim Perales

The #TrumpMusk regime is letting children DIE bc #DOGE defunded the 64-yr-old #USAID🚨. This precious child is DEAD, & others will suffer & die.

"It was indeed difficult to obtain photos of the orphans who had died bc of the collapse of USAID: Bc they were dead, I couldn't photograph them, & impoverished orphans don't leave photo archives. But this is Evan Anzoo, from a social worker who helped him before he died💔 when USAID stopped providing his 12-cents-a-day med."
-N Kristof

Evan outside a thatched roof house:
#USPol#Sadism
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Kim Perales

"#Trump admin to end funding for vaccinating children in poor countries"

"This is so fucking cruel. Withholding $300M. That's 0.004% of the $6.8T budget last year. They're willing to let 8 million kids💔die over the next 5 years to save 0.004% of the US budget. How much are we spending on rooms at Mar-a-Lago when he's golfing?"
-Dr R Davidson

Amplify this preventable "genocidal," catastrophe. This can be reversed.

#USAID #DOGE #Musk #Republicans #Resist #Firings #USPol

thehill.com/policy/healthcare/

A baby from the Malawi village of Tomali is injected with the world’s first vaccine against malaria in a pilot program:
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EV not Petrol

@georgetakei the biggest Ponzi scheme in the USA was #usaid and the second biggest is the funding of #israel. Lining corporate farming and military suppliers. With #trump and #musk it is like watching the blind leading the blind.

When he calls social security scheme a ‘ponzi scheme’ he is ignoring that giving to these people funnels money to small local businesses as apposed to the one he is in which is the government outsources federal services to people like him.

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

Inside DOGE’s Plan to Invade the Treasury—and Throttle USAID

Court filings show that from the earliest days of the 2nd #Trump administration, Elon Musk’s DOGE had a plan to infiltrate US Treasury payment systems—and turn them against USAID.
wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge

"reveal the extent of #DOGE penetration into the most sensitive systems at the #Treasury...

this access was in service of the admn’s plans to target #USAID."

Headline from Wired: Inside DOGE’s Plan to Invade the Treasury—and Throttle USAID Court filings show that from the earliest days of the second Trump administration, Elon Musk’s DOGE had a plan to infiltrate US Treasury payment systems—and turn them against USAID. by Vittoria Elliott and Matt Giles Politics Mar 26, 2025 1:06 PM
#ElonMusk#Musk#Coup
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Kim Perales

#USAID was one of the earliest targets of #DOGE /Trump admin. <2 wks after Trump’s inaug, the maj of USAID’s staff: placed on admin leave, & funding to many partner orgs was cut off. Docs: in place for strangulation in payments to happen.

“Fiscal will intercept USAID pymts files prior to ingestion into our PAM/SPS systems (in place now -can begin immediately) -we developed a process to intercept the file -catch all USAID payment requests."

#Sabotage #Coup #Resist #USPol wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge

WIRED · Inside DOGE's Plan to Invade the Treasury—and Throttle USAIDBy Vittoria Elliott
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