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HISTORICAL FACTS: Slashed us aid showing impact as congress codifies cuts - Caught on Camera

The massive cuts to US humanitarian aid funding under US President Donald Trump have included crucial food aid to several countries (Credit: AFP)

The United States' destruction of a warehouse worth of emergency food that had spoiled has drawn outrage, but lawmakers and aid workers say it is only one effect of President Donald Trump's abrupt slashing of foreign assistance.

The Senate early Thursday approved nearly $9 billion in cuts to foreign aid as well as public broadcasting, formalizing a radical overhaul of spending that Trump first imposed with strokes of his pen on taking office nearly six months ago.

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