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due to his USAID cuts alone. More than two Holocausts worth of human beings.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5452513/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-deaths

"The Trump administration is formally shutting down the United States Agency for International Development today, after cancelling 83% of its programs earlier this year.

The administration says the agency has misspent billions in funds and "has little to show since the end of the Cold War."

That argument clashes with a new study published Monday in the medical journal, the Lancet. The study estimates that USAID programs have saved over 90 million lives over the past two decades. The researchers also estimate that if the current cuts continue through 2030, 14 million people who might have otherwise lived could die.

"Is [USAID] a good use of resources? We found that the average taxpayer has contributed about 18 cents per day to USAID," says James Macinko, a health policy researcher at UCLA and study co-author. "For that small amount, we've been able to translate that into saving up to 90 million deaths around the world."...(more)