Regarding "USAID workers clear out desks" (Feb. 28 print edition): President Donald Trump and Elon Musk claim that USAID programs were "out of line" with the Trump/Musk agenda. A review of the contracts which they summarily canceled leads one to question the nature of that "agenda."
The terminated programs include a $131 million grant to UNICEF's polio eradication effort; a $90 million contract to provide anti-malarial mosquito bed nets and treatments that would have protected 53 million people; a project in Uganda to trace Ebola contacts; pre- and postnatal health services for 3.9 million children and 5.7 million women in Nepal; a project run by the Helen Keller Institute that last year treated 35 million people in West Africa for neglected tropical diseases; and a program in Nigeria providing 5.6 million children and 1.7 million women with treatment for malnutrition.
What kind of "agenda" calls for such callous cuts? There can be no doubt that tens of thousands of people will needlessly die as a result of the actions of Trump/Musk. Members of Congress must speak out against this carnage.
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