Trump administration terminates some USAID contracts providing lifesaving food aid

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Source: PBS




World Apr 7, 2025 1:52 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has notified the World Food Program and other partners that it has terminated some of the last remaining lifesaving humanitarian programs across the Middle East, a U.S. official and a U.N. official told The Associated Press on Monday.

The projects were being canceled “for the convenience of the U.S. Government” at the direction of Jeremy Lewin, a top lieutenant at Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whom the Trump administration appointed to oversee and finish dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to letters sent to USAID partners and viewed by the AP.

About 60 letters canceling contracts were sent over the past week, including for major projects with the World Food Program, the world’s largest provider of food aid, a USAID official said. An official with the United Nations in the Middle East said the World Food Program received termination letters for U.S.-funded programs in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria............

......Another of the notices, sent Friday, abruptly pulled U.S. funding for a program with strong support in Congress that had sent young Afghan women overseas for schooling amid Taliban prohibitions on women’s education, said an administrator for that project, which is run by Texas A&M University...........




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I can guarantee it that Trump is enjoying his big juicy steak dinners whenever he wants them!!

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Workers pack rice at the World Food Programme distribution center, at the refugee camp in Cox's Bazar

[BoRaGard]

1. "I'll have the caviar-stuffed lobster tails for lunch, Snerdley." - Kingy Krasnov (R-Felon)

"And while you're up, Snerdly, cancel another 1,000 foodbank truck deliveries. We repubes are gettin real good at the efficiency thing, if I do say so myself." - Komrade Krasnov (R-Felon)

[nowforever]

2. Of course we will starve

people if we can get our billionaires the tax cuts they deserve.

[Initech]

3. Can we just terrminate Trump and his shitty cabinet? Nothing of value would be lost!

[Doodley]

4. Monsters.

[twodogsbarking]

5. Didn't Nazis do experiments starving and freezing people?

[AloeVera]

6. Syrian refugees most affected.

Some of the last remaining U.S. funding for key programs in Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and the southern African nation of Zimbabwe also was affected, including for those providing food, water, medical care and shelter for people displaced by war, the USAID official said.


The U.N. official said the groups that would be hit hardest include Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon. Also affected are programs supporting vulnerable Lebanese people and providing irrigation systems inside Syria, a country emerging from a brutal civil war and struggling with poverty and hunger.

In Yemen, another war-divided country that is facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters, the terminated aid apparently includes food that has already arrived in distribution centers, the U.N. official said.

https://apnews.com/article/usaid-trump-humanitarian-aid-1167e0f64dde9ab6cafa0d5e0b812710

While these two well-fed evil men, Rubio and Trump, don't even bat an eye at the mass suffering and hunger.

[bluestarone]

7. Did not a Judge ORDER these fuck heads

NOT to stop USAID?

[slightlv]

8. Feeding needy people and

educating women are about as low on the list of priorities as to be non-existent in trump's sphere of influence. Controlling food and food distribution just gives him another sledgehammer to wield as he tries to make the world bow down to his dominion.

[Xolodno]

9. WRONG SIR! WRONG!

From what I've read he likes his steaks well done and dry with lots of ketchup.

Do not give him the class that he eats "juicy steaks", he has know culinary taste.