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Moving Fast And Breaking Everything: Musk's Rampage Through US Govt

In Silicon Valley, they talk about "moving fast and breaking things." One of his first and splashiest moves was to send emails to 2.3 million civil servants, offering buyouts -- and making clear their futures now hang by a thread.

International Business Times

US judge blocks Trump’s effort to shutter international news service

District judge orders US administration to restore the capacity of broadcaster shuttered over claims of ‘leftist bias’.

Al Jazeera

Nearly 3 million extra deaths by 2030 could result from HIV funding cuts, study suggests

A modeling study looked at how anticipated cuts to international HIV funding would affect the rate of new cases and HIV-related deaths in low- and middle-income countries.

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Monday briefing: How Trump’s cuts to USAID are already harming the world’s worst off

In today’s newsletter: The US aid agency has been a lifeline for developing nations since the 1960s – its destruction is already having huge consequences around the world

The Guardian - UK

Campaigners and charities horrified by revelations about impact of Trump’s ‘reckless’ USAID cuts

Trump has been accused of giving ‘millions of people a death sentence’ after The Independent exposed the reality of the cuts on the ground

The Independent UK

Trump is creating a selfish, miserable world. Here’s what we can do

The president is both a symptom and a cause of unhappiness and mistrust. But we can respond by rebuilding our social fabric

The Guardian - US

Elton John and Brandi Carlile vs Trump administration’s cuts to HIV/AIDS relief

“Without prompt action, decades of progress in the global fight against HIV could be reversed, creating a global health crisis that we have both the power and the tools to prevent,” said Elton John in a statement for the new joint-venture.

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Aids devastation highlights America’s deterioration under Trump

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Trump and Musk laid waste to USAID in a spree of destruction. Now millions of people will lose their lives as a result, and America its hard-won reputation

The Independent UK

Marco Rubio Could Be Directed To Slash Almost Half Of The State Department's Funding: Report

The Trump administration has reportedly proposed cutting the combined budgets of the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) by nearly half.

Latin Times

DOGE associate is made acting head of foreign assistance at the State Department, a US official says

The Trump administration has expanded the power of adviser Elon Musk’s government-cutting team over the State Department

The Independent UK

Trump Admin Seeks To Slash State Dept Budget By 48%, Layoffs Loom

An internal memo shows that the White House Office of Management and Budget proposed reducing the combined budget of the State Department and USAID to $28.4 billion — a $27 billion cut from the amount approved by Congress for 2025.

International Business Times

EU will struggle to fill gap left by USAID as European countries cut their budgets

NGOs warn of ‘some difficult years’ ahead as increasing humanitarian needs meet shrinking finances

The Guardian - UK

White House proposes drastic cuts to State Department and funding for UN, NATO and other groups

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has proposed gutting the State Department’s budget by almost 50%, closing a number of overseas diplomatic missions, and eliminating funding for nearly all international organizations, including the United Nations, many of its agencies and for NATO headquarters

The Independent UK

A British billionaire funded therapeutic food production amid USAID 'craziness.' It won't be enough

America's nutritional peanut paste manufacturers are having a “yo-yo” of a year

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International Business Times

Trump Official Behind USAID Closure Leaves Post As Musk-Led Cuts Reshape Agency

The move came as Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency cut funding and laid off contractors across many federal agencies, claiming it was part of a plan to reduce wasteful spending.

The Independent UK

Trump official who helped dismantle USAID leaves role after ‘depriving millions’ of life-saving support

Pete Marocco reportedly clashed with Secretary of State Marco Rubio over extent of funding cuts

The Guardian - US

Tuberculosis could end if there’s more US public health funding, experts say

Resurgence could be on horizon as outbreaks pick up speed in US and abroad amid public health program cuts

The Independent UK

Millions of Afghans will be ‘abandoned’ to famine thanks to Trump’s aid cuts, warns UN

World Food Programme says essential programmes to prevent malnutrition and death will not be possible unless Elon Musk-led USAID cuts are reversed

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Al Jazeera

How US funding cuts are threatening South African families living with HIV

Critical community initiatives that provide testing, food and support and HIV vaccine research have been dismantled.

Reason

The Chief Justice "Facilitates" Another Shadow Docket Compromise In Noem v. Garcia

The Trump Administration didn't lose but it didn't quite win either.

The Conversation

Trump tariff backflip brings a US trade war with China into the crosshairs

You have to marvel at Donald Trump’s prescience. After his announcement of America’s new tariffs regime on April 2, “liberation day”, the stock markets plummeted, causing faint hearts around the world to quail. Nerves fluttered particularly hard when bond yields started to rise rapidly this week, suggesting a growing lack…

The Conversation

USAID: the human cost of Donald Trump’s aid freeze for a war-torn part of Sudan

The day of Donald Trump’s second inauguration, his incoming administration abruptly paused the work of USAID, while also claiming that it would preserve USAID’s “lifesaving and strategic aid programming”. These dramatic, overnight cuts were an unprecedented – and deadly – experiment in relation to aid spending which will have a…

The Independent UK

US restores urgent food aid but not in Afghanistan and Yemen, where millions need it

United Nations officials say the Trump administration has reversed sweeping cuts in emergency food aid to several nations while maintaining them in Afghanistan and Yemen

The Independent UK

Why USAID is such a critical piece of the global climate aid puzzle – and what happens next as it is cut

CLIMATE ANALYSIS: As development projects battle over which is the most ‘life-saving’ in order to secure the dregs of US aid funding, climate action is likely to be deemed lowest priority, writes Nick Ferris

International Business Times

Trump Administration Reinstates Some Foreign Aid Programs After WFP Warns Of Deadly Consequences: Report

Sources with knowledge of the matter said Jeremy Lewin, the acting deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), instructed the staff Tuesday to reverse the termination of multiple foreign aid programs.

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