9. Services from the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation - just one organization - reaching 350,000 people on HIV treatment, including nearly 10,000 children and more than 10,000 HIV-positive pregnant women – terminated.
Aside from utter the cruelty 2 reasons for this wholesale cancellation of funding:
1. They can claim they cannot meet a TRO to restore funding because the system they fucked up cannot do it in time.
2. Even if they obey the TRO they've already bankrupted many of these organizations already
Some are being targeted in foreign countries for outstanding invoices/payments due. Endangering lives bc they unilaterally cancelled payments. SCOTUS owns this.
Roberts always put himself forward as so high-minded and protective of the SCOTUS, even voting at times to protect Democratic policies. But it will be he who's recorded as shepherding its implosion. (And the Rehnquist Court paving the way with the Bush v. Gore coup.)
12. A project in the Democratic Republic of Congo that operates the only source of water for 250,000 displaced people in camps located in the center of current conflict.
@agawande.bsky.social Thank you for sharing this partial list of the contracts that were terminated. Was it ever explained to you why they are shutting down so many humanitarian programs? I can see that *may* be some non-life threatening programs within the USAID could be shutdown, but 90% ??!?
This angers me beyond words!
I lost this beautiful soul, in 2022, do accidental fentanyl poisoning. She was 30 years old…and was a very bright light in this world.
My heart aches for her every damn day. 😢
Goddamit
Well well well. It isnt a surprise that they're hypocrites but this is one that we may be able to rub their racist voters faces in. If they care about drugs why did they eliminate actual prevention of drugs? (I know why. But maybe some of their voters can be shamed with this thought.)
Could you point to (or write?) an explainer on the state of play? I was outraged, then relieved by a court ruling, then worried it wasn’t complied with, then another court upheld firing of all staff, then contracts cancelled (so even if funding resumes, programs torched?) WTF is actually happening?
Did read What We Know in Better World Campaign piece but not understanding the court orders (Justice Roberts involved last night?) or the court upholding of staff dismissals or what the freaking advocacy target is to address this humanitarian disaster.
Isn't this their whole claim to fame with imposing tariffs? Why in the world would they get rid of this then??? 🤔 Oh wait...so they can dip their hands deeper in our pockets and make us suffer more by paying more because it's us, the people, who are going to feel it the most!
It's not a pause.
Had dinner last night with a high level NGO executive. USAID staff have now acknowledged there will be no new guidelines, no new grant rounds at the end of the 90 days.
Someone else has started a postcard protest to trump on March 15th. I think I’ll start early and send a few to Rubio instead, using your list as a guideline. Thanks.
same with Save the Children - of its 6300 contracts, 5,800 have been cancelled, leaving 500 left. (looks like DOGE targeted any contracts that aren't focused on providing assistance in the US)
new US policies aren't about waste and fraud, they're about trump and musk and others believing that helping other people is not worth it. They've worked less for what they have than most.
Shame it strayed from AID in to political agendas and ideology then. I’m sure food programs will be reinstated. Shame so little accounting and financial transparency has been lacking permitting fraud.
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1. They can claim they cannot meet a TRO to restore funding because the system they fucked up cannot do it in time.
2. Even if they obey the TRO they've already bankrupted many of these organizations already
Roberts will not take his last breath peacefully in his bed.
I lost this beautiful soul, in 2022, do accidental fentanyl poisoning. She was 30 years old…and was a very bright light in this world.
My heart aches for her every damn day. 😢
Goddamit
https://www.newsweek.com/president-donald-trump-pardon-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht-drugs-libertarian-2018764
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