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2. Study: 14 million lives could be lost due to Trump aid cuts
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 09:41 PM
Oct 8

(Trump and Musk’s cuts in USAID has already killed at least 1,000,000 in Africa in May the # of deaths were > 300,000 in.Africa with more than 1/2 of them children. Cruelty is the point. Musk the richest
man in the world is killing the poorest people in the world. We are looking @ Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and
Mao type of #s of deaths.)

The Trump administration is formally shutting down the United States Agency for International Development today, after cancelling 83% of its programs earlier this year.

The administration says the agency has misspent billions in funds and "has little to show since the end of the Cold War."

That argument clashes with a new study published Monday in the medical journal, the Lancet. The study estimates that USAID programs have saved over 90 million lives over the past two decades. The researchers also estimate that if the current cuts continue through 2030, 14 million people who might have otherwise lived could die.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5452513/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-deaths

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