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Trump’s offer of earthquake aid to Myanmar raises more questions than it answers.After dismantling USAID and cutting long-term humanitarian capacity,
he now offers “direct help” to a military junta known for brutal repression.
This is not compassion.It’s optics. A stage, not a solution.Myanmar doesn’t need a photo op.It needs credible, neutral aid –
not a handshake from a man who just turned off the lifeline.
#USPolitics #Trump #MyanmarAid #USAID #Geopolitics #HumanitarianCrisis #USPolicyFeeds

Trump says the US will help in Asia quake. A former official says the system is now in ‘shambles’

President Trump said Friday that the U.S. was going to help with the response to Southeast Asia’s deadly earthquake.

But the effects of his administration’s deep cuts in foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department will likely be tested in any response to the first big natural disaster of his second term.

#USAID
apnews.com/article/trump-earth

Volunteers look for survivors near a damaged building Friday, March 28, 2025, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)
AP News · Trump says the US will help in Asia quake. A former official says the system is now in 'shambles'By Ellen Knickmeyer

Good grief!

Via Kyle Cheney:

JUST IN: The 4th circuit court of appeals has cleared the way for Elon and DOGE to continue operating in , staying a lower court’s ruling that barred DOGE’s activities.

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In an email to #USAID staff, Jeremy Lewin, a #DOGE ofcl who took over running the day-to-day ops at USAID from Pete Marocco on March 20, said the RIFs would go into effect either on July 1 or Sept 2.

This comes as the #Trump admin wraps up the dismantling of the 64-year-old USAID, having terminated some 5,200 contracts, & moves forward with its plan to shift the remaining portion of its work to the #State Dept.

The #Trump admin is terminating nearly all of the remaining 900 employees of the #USAID, in a final reduction-in-force #RIF.

Virtually no one will be spared, not even political appointees, acc/to 2 snr USAID ofcls….

Staff were ordered to leave "the front office" by 1PM on Fri for reasons that are not clear, the ofcls said. But they may still be asked to continue working for a few months.

#Musk #DOGE #Aid #geopolitics #SoftPower
npr.org/sections/goats-and-sod

A list of cancelled and retained USAID contracts presented to the US Congress indicates that at least nine African nations may have lost all projects…Analysis of the list by two research fellows at the Centre for Global Development shows the cuts are deepest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Uganda, South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania. Across 44 African countries, they amount to nearly $4 billion in lost funding. —From “The Continent” #Africa #USAID #ForeignPolicy #DRC #Ethiopia #Uganda #Kenya #Tanzania #SouthAfrica #RepublicansDidThis #TheContinent

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"OK, Musk, challenge accepted.

Specific line items on #DOGE's wall of receipts, explaining how these violated the Rubio guidance on protecting lifesaving activities.

A blanket purchase #USAID order for humanitarian kitchen sets. Wasteful?

USAID KITCHEN SETS HAVE THEIR OWN ENTRY IN THE NAT MUSEUM OF AMERICAN #DIPLOMACY.

#DOGE could've take 10 seconds to google that.

Another CXL contract: bulk purchase of Aquatabs -purifies water so that it's fit for HH consumption."
-J Konyndyk

Chantage aux droits de douane contre les alliès de l'Amérique #UE #EU #Canada
Alignement sur la position russe dans le conflit européen #Russia
Extorsion de dette mafieuse vis à vis de l' #Ukraine
Menace d'annexion du #Greenland pour faire bonne mesure face à l' #UE et qui permettra le retrait du #Nato
Dissolution de l' #USAID arme primordial du soft power américain
Soutien sans condition du #génocide et à la déportation des palestiniens par #israel
#Trump
S.O.S, S.O.S, S.O.S #USA