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When Elon Musk\u2019s<\/span> Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, went looking for government agencies to axe last year, one of its first targets was the US Agency for International Development. Established during the Cold War to counter Soviet influence, USAID spent billions of dollars on food aid, public health, and emergency relief for some of the world\u2019s most vulnerable populations. In return, the US hoped to gain allies and goodwill. Call it a decades-long exercise in soft power.<\/p>

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But since President Donald Trump returned to office, soft power is out. And so is USAID, which has been slashed and reorganized. The Trump administration is trying to close the agency altogether by September. This has led to some horrific consequences for the people who relied on USAID to get by.<\/p>

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\u201cEveryone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this,\u201d says Anna Maria Barry-Jester, a journalist at ProPublica who traveled to South Sudan and Kenya alongside her colleague Brett Murphy to report on how foreign aid cuts were directly affecting the people who live there. Earlier this month, their reporting was recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.<\/p>\n

On this week\u2019s More To The Story<\/em>, Barry-Jester and Murphy join host Al Letson to talk about their on-the-ground reporting from Africa and how the aid cuts are leading to deadly consequences for people who\u2019ve long relied on USAID to survive.<\/p>

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ProPublica\u2019s Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester examine how America\u2019s foreign aid cuts are threatening the survival of the world\u2019s most vulnerable populations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nTrump Destroyed USAID. Now People Are Dying. - Moving and Mortgage Hub<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=39\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump Destroyed USAID. 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