U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk were entirely right that America’s aid programs merited scrutiny and reform. Yet so far what these 2 billionaires have achieved is to crush the world’s poorest children in a cauldron of confusion and cruelty.
Having covered the United States Agency for International Development for decades, I reached out to my contacts around the world to get the real story of the Trump-Musk demolition.
In Sokoto, Nigeria, toddlers are starving because emergency feeding centers supported by USAID have run out of the nutrient-rich paste used to save the lives of severely malnourished children. Nearby warehouses have the paste but can’t release it without a waiver from the agency — which is in such Muskian chaos that it can’t issue the waivers.
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