Trump-Beamte feierten mit Kuchen, nachdem sie die Hilfe gekürzt hatten. Dann starben Menschen an Cholera.

Career USAID and State Dept. staff warned: Foreign aid cuts would exacerbate a South Sudan cholera epidemic. But records and interviews show that Marco Rubio and other Trump officials dismissed the warnings. As a result, people in South Sudan died.

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In response to a detailed list of questions, a senior State Department official said fast, drastic changes to foreign aid were necessary to reform a “calcified system.” The world, especially U.S. interests, will be better for it in the long run, the official said, despite “some disruptions in the short term.”

The official maintained that nobody died as a result of the funding cuts. “That’s a disgusting framing,” the official said. “There are people who are dying in horrible situations all around the world, all of the time.”