From my son in law that deals with foreign aid

I’m sitting at my desk writing a report for a survey we just conducted in a country in Africa, creating a chart to show that 60% of the respondents have gone an entire day and night without eating anything at all as many as 10 times in the past 30 days due to a lack of food and resources. What Elon Musk and Trump’s executive orders are doing to dismantle USAID is pulling food from the mouths of people like this. And medicine from kids dying from malaria and tuberculosis. And care from mothers giving birth. All to save a few pennies so the Republicans can brag about how they cracked down on government spending. The amount of money allocated to USAID was less than 1% of our budget last year. This isn’t about saving money. It’s a political stunt that is cruel, inhumane and immoral – and illegal. Since its founding by JFK in 1961, trucks, vests, and bags of supplies bearing the USAID logo have announced the presence of lifesaving care and assistance in parts of the world where no one else was willing or able to help. Along with doing what is right (and for Christians, doing what Jesus said we are supposed to be doing over and over and over again) those efforts have helped to create lifelong affection and appreciation for the USA around the world. Call it “soft diplomacy” or just “marketing,” it has paid immeasurable dividends, and we are a weaker, less safe, and less deserving country now that it is gone.

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