Summary

A watchdog report warns that nearly $500 million in food aid is at risk of spoiling due to Trump’s freeze on most foreign aid and USAID staff furloughs.

Despite exemptions for emergency food assistance, confusion and lack of oversight have delayed shipments worldwide. The report highlights USAID’s inability to monitor aid distribution, raising concerns about security risks.

Trump’s actions, part of a broader attack on foreign aid, have drawn bipartisan criticism.

A federal judge ordered USAID workers reinstated, but the administration has reportedly continued blocking access.

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    15 hours ago

    Donald Trump isn’t just evil. Donald Trump is stupid.

    Not only does his agenda not further the interests of America, it doesn’t further the professed values of the Republican Party.

    The sole guiding principle of the Republican Party is: Hurt the right people.

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    21 hours ago

    To clarify, nearly all of this food has already left the United States, except for 1 warehouse in Houston. It’s already been paid for, and as it sits, it costs money to store it.

    This is like buying 3 dozen eggs from Whole Foods and setting them in the hot sun after you get home because you decided to punch yourself in the face until you passed out before putting them away.

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      19 hours ago

      Definitely all the people who told us both sides were the same, or that Kamala would be just as bad.

      They knew what they were doing.

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    The moral thing to do here is to commandeer that food and distribute it however you can before it spoils.

    Waste not want not.

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      17 hours ago

      Lol and the condom aid being for a Gaza in Mozambique and not the Middle East is hilarious

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    The report, which the inspector general of the U.S. Agency for International Development published late Monday afternoon

    Thats the problem, they didn’t fire this inspector yet!