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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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From: S. maltophilia9/21/2025 3:45:26 PM
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Trump’s Most Lethal Policy

The Trump administration has claimed that no one has died because of its cuts to humanitarian aid, and it is now trying to cancel an additional $4.9 billion in aid that Congress already approved. Yet what I find here in desperate villages in southwestern Uganda is that not only are aid cuts killing children every day, but that the death toll is accelerating.

Stockpiles of food and medicine are running out here. Village health workers who used to provide inexpensive preventive care have been laid off. Public health initiatives like deworming and vitamin A distribution have collapsed. Immunizations are being missed. Contraception is harder to get. Ordinary people are growing weaker, hungrier and more fragile. So as months pass, the.....

nytimes.com

Don't know where the final numbers might end up, but the regime is in the big leagues:

newsroom.ucla.edu

reuters.com

thelancet.com
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