About two and a half months ago, I wrote an article about what foreign aid looks like in the second Trump term. Reading the work now feels strange.
I thought the second phase of Trump looked like his first: many proposals to reduce foreign aid funds (often for global or religious reasons (often global or religious reasons) It was pushed back by the Republican Party of Congress, which supported).
Finally, I included this nugget:
If Trump fully deprives the power of a wallet from the parliament, the hope for foreign aid associations in the ultra -parliamentary coalition behind foreign aid spending will be empty. Trump has simply overturned the world Lindsey Graham and Mario Diaz Ballat around the world. Then we will certainly be in an incredible dark reality.
We are now in an incredibly dark reality. The US International Development Organization (USAID) began with a 90 -day presidential order for the Presidential Order Frozen Support Program and became one of the first targets of the Trump administration. This was an exemption of action and the capture of wallet power from Congress. Pushbacks from foreign support champions, such as Graham and Diaz Ballat, are formally irrelevant.
Later, the advanced career staff of the agency was deleted, and a large amount of contractors (a huge responsibility for raising funds for agency funding) was pushed out. According to multiple USAID muscles, overseas contractors have lost access to SCRY PANIC. This is an agency software used to broadcast the contractors and staff being extremely dangerous. Without it, they could be invited n or attacked without a way to help USAID help.
Currently, ELON MUSK and his DOGE team are wrapped in the Ministry of State, shrinking in a part of that size, and preparing for the agency to completely dissolve. “USAID is a criminal organization,” said the mask, and in addition to the late -night X -space discussion, he agreed that he and Trump had to go.
To clarify, if this is legal, there are few. The President cannot legally refuse to spend the money that the parliament will spend on the government. The USAID has been approved by the Congress Law, which is obliged by the president. He cannot legally dissolve it or wrap it in the State Department himself. This is all a large and brave violation of the law, and is probably performed as a trial before defeating a hand Hatch to another federal agency.
But as the law violates, it may be an example of Canny. Foreign assistance was never popular. Some of them are probably due to misunderstandings that “foreign aid” means, but most Americans generally don't like to help people in other countries. (It is not helpful that past surveys do not indicate that the average Americans think that the United States is spending a quarter of the total budget for foreign assistance. The actual numbers are the numbers. Less than 1 %).
Last year's polls showed that 51-33 % of the margins believed that the United States should provide less economic assistance in foreign countries. If the mask and playing cards moved fast and wanted to break things without many oppositions, they first chose the right set to break.
However, in a crazy hollow from Musuku, it is important to remember a very important job by an agency because the government agency is only a hole in corruption. is.
Perfect justice takes more time than we have, but there are some small examples of USAIDs that have saved millions of lives. Differences of distributors.
The life of 50,000 people saved by malaria every year
One of the most shocking details in the USAID Purge is revelation that two -thirds of the president's Malaria Initiative (PMI) staff have been released as part of the contractor's mass firing.
PMI, created by former President George W. Bush and managed by USAID, is the only donor for anti -malaria efforts around the world, one of the foundation of Africa's American diplomacy, and the disease is the most. It is brutal.
How many lives do this save? The latest report on the program states that in 2023, PMI (total budget $ 777 million) provided 36.8 million insecticidal bednets and 48 million seasonal malaria chemical prevention (SMC).
The most trusted group to evaluate these intervention effects is to give. The latest analysis depends on the country, but you can see that the child's lives have been saved for each of about 1,400 bednets distributed. That means that 36.8 million bednets distributed by PMI saved more than 26,200 children. It's not bad for a program that corresponds to a rounded error of the federal budget as a whole.
How about SMC's pills? Here, it seems that about 2,000 SMCs are needed to save their lives. That means that 48 million doses of funds provided by PMI saved about 24,000 lives.
PMI is only a part of the USAID Global Health Bureau, which is only a part of the agency's work, but even this small part can save more than 50,000 lives every year. Is this really the place we want to cut?
More than one million lives saved by HIV/AIDS
Pepfar, a program created by Bush fighting HIV/AIDS, is probably the most famous foreign aid program in the United States, and has been forced to provide a concession that Trump teams are dissatisfied with USAID attacks. It is a thing.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has signed an exemption to exempt the program since the 90 -day suspension of foreign aid, but it is unknown how it can be implemented. And make the money available. As of last Friday, the prior attempt to abandon the right to save lives was not actually available.
In any case, let's talk about how effective Pepfar was. The main research here is irony, co -authored by Jay Batachariya, the appointment of Trump, who leads the National Institute of Health. The paper has discovered that the reproduced paper has reduced the death rate of all deaths in partner countries between 2004 and 2008, hindering the death of 740,914 in the five years. It means conservatively saving more than one million lives over the life of the program. This is now over 20 years.
The Trump team seems to be reluctant to pursue Pep fur and overlook it. The problem is that many of the USAID fund programs have not yet been sparse from the cut programs that save cost -effective lives.
One of USAID's CROWN JEWELS is a program founded in Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) established in 2010, which proves that it is already effective to pilot non -profit organizations and other new programs. You can scale up. Compared to the conventional USAID program for a few months, it responded to the application in a few weeks and had a surprising achievement of success.
ノーベル賞を受賞したエコノミストのマイケル・クレマー（Divを共同設立した）、Divの現在リーダーのSasha Gallant、およびエコノミストのOlga RostapshovaとMilan Thomasによる2021年の論文は、最初の3年間で少なくとも2億8,100 It was estimated that the $ 19.2 million investment DIV created for $ 10,000 has earned. Social interests like life saved by intervention are over 143 % for annual social income.
That number is not just expensive. It is basically unprecedented. And some of the authors are almost independent of the institutions they are evaluating, but they are confident that the return is really considerable because they use a fairly conservative method overall. It will be given.
One of the biggest successes was a beautiful water program dispenser that provides water dispensers chlorine. Chlorine is quite common in other water sources in poor countries, and is a very cost -effective method of killing bacteria, viruses, and parasites that contribute to the death of 1.4 million a year. The randomized test, which was a random test, was very effective, and four years later, the child mortality rate in the treated village decreased by 63 %.
That is a kind of program that provides funds to USAID.
Is there a relatively low effect or useless USAID program? Almost certain. For this reason, the institution is audited by the investigator and the government's explanation bureau, pointing out that it is lacking.
It is not a rational audit that the mask and Trump are USAID. They are risingly slash and veran attacks to destroy the program that saved millions of lives. It is a terrible crime.
