Poll: Two Thirds Believe Dissolving USAID Will Lead to More Illness and Death Globally, While Nearly Half Say It Would Significantly Reduce the Budget Deficit and Fund Domestic Programs | KFF
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As the Trump administration works to dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a new KFF poll finds that two-thirds (67%) of the public believe these actions will increase illness and death in low-income countries, and a similar majority (62%) believe it will result in more humanitarian crises around the world. At the same…More

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com
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    1 day ago

    Wow, maybe the EU should start picking up the slack! Who else is going to fund musicals in Ireland? The Irish?

    • grumps@lemmy.i.secretponi.esEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Stop watching conservative propaganda.

      USAID is a combination soft power program, humanitarian program, and US economic program (yes, money spent at home). You can always find a way to spin nonsense from program abstracts but that doesn’t make that nonsense relevant to the discussion.