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Former Defense Secretary Hagel says USAID cuts pose national security threat

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Some former government officials argue President Trump's cuts to USAID could hurt America on the world stage and help China and Russia. Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel joins "America Decides" with his perspective.

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Former Defense Secretary Hagel says USAID cuts pose national security threat

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Trump’s USAID Cuts Leave Starving Babies Without Food as American Aid System Collapses

A Life-Saving Mission Crumbles In a detailed report by CBS News correspondent Graham Kates, titled “American manufacturer of food for malnourished babies lays off staff amid USAID funding upheaval,” published March 20, 2025, an American-made humanitarian crisis is unfolding with devastating global consequences. At the heart of it is Edesia Nutrition, a Rhode Island-based nonprofit that produces Plumpy’Nut—a shelf-stable, peanut-based paste used …

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'The answer is they die': Trump-Musk cuts to USAID having deadly consequences in Africa

MSNBC's Ali Velshi is joined by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who has just returned from South Sudan, to discuss the very real and very deadly consequences that Donald Trump and Elon Musk's cuts to USAID funding are having.

10 days ago·United States

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The Trump Administration’s Impact in Botswana – The Tennessee Tribune

On Inauguration Day, 20 January 2025, Donald J. Trump signed an executive order that immediately halted almost all U.S. foreign aid – including health and food resources. Since that point, Trump has systematically gutted USAID. Trump plans to reduce this United States government agency from 10,000 to 611 employees and shut down its management and distribution of billions in funding provided for those in need around the world. In 2023, of the …

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Ethiopia implements taxation overhaul to address USAID funding gap – The North Africa Post

Ethiopia’s parliament has enacted a sweeping tax reform targeting both private and public sector employees to fill the financial void created by USAID’s recent funding suspension. The newly established Ethiopian Disaster Risk Response Fund will channel these tax revenues toward critical projects previously sustained by USAID, which had been Ethiopia’s foremost development and humanitarian partner. […]

9 days ago·Rabat, Morocco

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