Millions To Die Because Of Trump Administration | Daily Dose, June 2, 2025
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“Millions of Lives at Risk”: USAID Cuts Lead to Global Rise in Death, Hunger, Poverty and Disease democracynow.org
Instead of the TOXIC PROPAGANDA option…
No One Has Died As A Result Of Musk And Rubio’s Cuts To USAID Programs And Besides Most Of Those Programs Fund ‘Woke’ Stuff Like DEI Plays
Consume the HEALTHY CONTEXT version…
People Are Already Dead From USAID Cuts, Millions More Needless Deaths Are Predicted, And The Trump Administration Is To Blame
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an agency of the United States government, established in 1961, that has been responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. Providing healthcare and food assistance around the world has built up incredible goodwill for the United States.
USAID’s destruction is part of the Trump administration’s propaganda campaign to win support for another wealth transfer to the .1% richest Americans via Trump’s next tax bill. By pretending to make significant cuts to programs that they claim don’t serve the public, Trump’s administration hopes Americans won’t notice as they make the poor poorer.
Marco Rubio took over the destruction of USAID from Elon Musk in February of this year. In March, Rubio told the public that 83 percent of the agency’s programs had been canceled. The Trump administration calls these cuts a good thing. They repeatedly referenced and misrepresented a handful of crazy sounding USAID programs to distract the MAGA base from the overall misery, death, and loss of global leadeship for which they are responsible. To maintain public support Rubio and Musk have been lying, saying that no one is dying because of the cuts.
It is emphatically true that the destruction of USAID has led to preventable deaths worldwide, especially among vulnerable populations such as children and those with HIV/AIDS, and will lead to millions more preventable deaths in just the next few years.
Vitamin C(ontext)
Studies by health groups showed that a lack of US funding for polio eradication efforts will likely lead to an additional 200,000 polio cases a year. Some 10.6 million cases of tuberculosis and 2.2 million deaths will not be prevented in the void of US foreign aid funding.
Projects that aimed to help prevent and contain future pandemics — which could directly impact American health and security — were also cut.
In Somalia and Nigeria, the termination of nutrition programs has led to a rise in child malnutrition and mortality.
Reductions in funding have compromised maternal health programs, leading to increased maternal and neonatal mortality rates.
PEPFAR, which provides testing services and treatment to prevent and treat HIV, is credited with saving some 25 million lives. Several major contracts were cut or shrunk down considerably. As a result, 20.6 million people, including almost 600,000 children, are no longer receiving HIV treatment that was previously funded by the US.
Journalists like Nicholas Kristof have reported on individual cases of children who have died as a direct result of the cuts. For instance, Kristof mentions Evan Anzoo, a 5-year-old boy who was born with H.I.V. in South Sudan. “Evan’s life was in our hands, and for five years America kept him alive with antiretroviral medicines costing less than 12 cents a day, through…PEPFAR…Then along came President Trump and his freeze on most humanitarian aid in January. How could a 5-year-old orphan possibly obtain medicine on his own? Evan weakened and soon died of an opportunistic infection.”
Healthy Ingredients To Share On Social Media
New York Times Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True
New York Times Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?
Reuters Burmese refugee dies after discharge from shut US-funded clinic, says family
Vox The devastating impact of Trump’s slashing foreign aid, in 3 charts
Washington Post Rubio’s claim that it’s ‘a lie’ that people have died from foreign-aid cuts
Associated Press Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with 83% of agency’s programs gone
The Guardian ‘The impact has been devastating’: how USAid freeze sent shockwaves through Ethiopia
Study A Deadly Equation: The Global Toll of US TB Funding Cuts
U.S. News and World Report The Life-Saving Programs Disappearing as a Result of the USAID Funding Cuts
Wired A Lethal Mystery Illness Spread in Congo. USAID Cuts Have Slowed the Response
FactCheck.org Sorting Out the Facts on ‘Waste and Abuse’ at USAID
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Over 60% of influencers do not fact check any information before sharing it and 1 out of every 5 U.S. adults gets their news and information from social media influencers. By highlighting pieces of disinformation that I find while doing my work I aim to remind you that you must remain ever-vigilant in an increasingly post-truth America.
I found this video from an influencer named Brenna Perez. She debunks the claim of another influencer, named Cole, that Bernie Sanders is responsible for the gross rumor that Kamala Harris slept her way to the top. Cole watched a selectively edited interview of Sanders conducted by a Trump supporting comedy podcast and took to the internet to tell everyone what he’d seen. Cole has 254k followers on TikTok. Perez has 191k Tiktok followers. It’s a long video but I share it to highlight that the world of non-MAGA influencing can suffer from all the same pitfalls we see on the MAGA right. Disinformers (those editing interviews to purposefully mislead) causing others to become misinformers (those who spread disinformation unknowingly because they saw something on the internet and believed it). Be safe out there and fact check everything!
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