Little Marco said US aid cuts were to slash bureaucracy. So why are more refugee children going hungry?

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On the floor of their tiny makeshift home in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, her mother Fatima Begum feeds Sofiya by rubbing her gums with a food paste designed to treat severe malnutrition.

These life-saving packets were provided by the US government, labeled with the logo of USAID – a legacy of the now-defunct organization which was dismantled by the Trump administration in January. With US aid cuts of $8 billion annually, a gaping hole has been left in international aid.

The impact is already being felt in the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, where UNICEF reports an alarming 11% rise in the number of children with acute malnutrition between January and September this year.

The remaining USAID supplies are now running out, and Begum says their regular food donations are also decreasing.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/marco-rubio-said-us-aid-053818237.html

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1. it was never about 'bureaucracy'

(I'm not sure where/when Rubio made such statement ..) But - on the face of it, this was purely slash and burn from the beginning. Quite plainly there was never any element of 'targeting' bureaucracy or overhead in these cuts at all.
So - if Marco actually said that - then it was a flat out lie. Then and now. Short and sweet.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. New name for hungry children is now bureaucracy.

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3. Umm, he's a republican, right? He lied.

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4. Marco is a Nazi who tried to arrange US access

to the concentration camp ion El Salvador.

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5. Because...................

he does not care about refugee children or children in general.

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6. Trump and Musk DOGE cuts

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7. He's the most widely trusted person in trump's cabinet.

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8. Could be because little marco is a republican politican.

Seems truth is not one of their big points.