You think that this does not affect you-the fallout includes rescinded contracting jobs in Fayetteville, NC and Austin; layoffs at an living facility in W. VA that relies on federal funding to pay staff, furloughs at after-school programs in Maine and health centers in VA facing funding delays.

U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.

Bread for the World - in 2023, nutrition programs funded by USAID but administered by humanitarian agencies “reached more than 39 million women and children globally with critical nutrition assistance, including 28 million children with nutrition 11 million women with counseling on child nutrition.”

In its simplest terms, the apparent demise of USAID is the result of the world's richest man ending a program that helps millions of poor people. You don't need a Ph.D. in moral theology to see why this is an evil. You can just read Jesus's parables on the rich and the poor.

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