Starting Jan 29, staff scrambled to request life-saving waivers after all foreign aid was paused. Enrich sent an email on Jan 31st to three political appointees about waivers, but didn't get a response until Feb. 4, when one said to be "draconian" in what they approved. - ThreadSky

annamaria.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Starting Jan 29, staff scrambled to request life-saving waivers after all foreign aid was paused. Enrich sent an email on Jan 31st to three political appointees about waivers, but didn't get a response until Feb. 4, when one said to be "draconian" in what they approved.

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renaroasts.bsky.social•1 day ago

Rubio needs to tried for crimes against humanity. He is directly responsible for thousands of deaths, and many more to come I’m sure.
Still quoting your Bible Marco? You obviously never received the message it had for you.

ubermenchies.bsky.social•1 day ago

The cruelty is the point, as usual.

annamaria.bsky.social•1 day ago

One early request was for the response to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda. Those programs got temporary permission to continue, but USAID has not been paying its bills, stranding programs. (More on that w/ my colleague Brett Murphy: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usaid-rubio-marocco-canceled-programs-gaza-syria-congo-hiv-ebola

benfranklinskite.bsky.social•19 hours ago

https://resist.bot/petitions/POLFZZ

mvandeve.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Leon is a liar v

zmus.bsky.social•2 hours ago

America as evil empire. Kind of sucks.

peotron.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I need to read completely but that includes help to Congo and Syria, so let think two things Congo resources are their any private investigations against someone's over let say Rwanda invasion's on Congo?? And Syria Israel, and Russia presence there???

silvy777.bsky.social•1 day ago

DOGE is committing crimes against humanity. The intent is to witthold care/treatment/resources so people die.

mistykitty3.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Yes they did say the world is overpopulated & this is their way of culling them.....Which flies in the face that Elmo has 12 kids, Talk about overpopulating 🤮

annamaria.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nonprofits made clear to USAID staff that without payment, they couldn't continue their life-saving work. On Feb 7, senior officials acknowledged that all of USAID's payment systems had been shut off by DOGE, so funds couldn't go out.

annamaria.bsky.social•1 day ago

Then senior officials were told to start terminating some programs, including ones that had been flagged as life-saving.

annamaria.bsky.social•1 day ago

In the weeks that followed, USAID received conflicting information on a near daily basis about whether waivers could continue and how. On Feb 24, political leadership said to deprioritize programs for mpox, polio, and Ebola, noting waivers for that work would not be approved.

gsanta5.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is horrible, but thankyou for posting this information.

annamaria.bsky.social•1 day ago

Then, on Feb 26, Secretary of State Marco Rubio terminated 5,000 USAID programs all at once, including care for malaria, TB and HIV. Shortly after political appointees told Enrich that they'd made some mistakes. "There is an acknowledgement some may have been sent out in error."

darkglade.bsky.social•1 day ago

"In error" my fucking arse, this is standard issue bullshit Silicon Valley "move fast and break things".

It's not an "error" if you paid no attention when you made the decision, it's pure fucking NEGLIGENCE and should be dealt with as such.

karmasdad.bsky.social•1 day ago

This info is so important and corporate media yawns and looks away

annamaria.bsky.social•1 day ago

Overall, the bureau identified 72 activities that are life-saving. To date, none of these have been approved and no payments have been released, according to Enrich's memo. Then nearly all of them were terminated on Feb 27th.

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