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Trump’s foreign aid freeze has deadly consequences

5 10
01.02.2025

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Welcome to The Logoff. Today is a tough one: I want to focus on the Trump administration’s freeze of foreign aid, an issue that is a matter of life-and-death for vulnerable people around the world.

What’s the latest? People around the world are feeling the effects of Trump’s Day 1 decision to freeze all foreign aid. The New York Times has a series of painful examples: displaced Sudanese people losing access to soup kitchens, Thai war refugees getting turned away from hospitals, Ukrainian civilians losing access to firewood.

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