USAID — which historically amounted to only about 0.3% of federal spending, roughly $20–22 billion in a federal budget exceeding $7 trillion — has been eviscerated while trillions continue to be squandered on failed U.S. military interventions and endless wars.
Now the consequences are becoming deadly. Ebola response efforts are being crippled by impoverishment and brutal cuts to global health programs. Clinics close, medical staff vanish, and vulnerable populations are abandoned, all while billions continue flowing into militarism and the destruction of Gaza and Lebanon.
These political choices expose a grotesque moral failure: there is always money for war, bombs, and geopolitical domination, but suddenly “no money” when it comes to preventing epidemics and saving human lives.
Cutting life-saving aid while funding devastation abroad makes the world more dangerous, less humane, and far less secure for everyone.
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