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The Last Mile with USAID

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🇺🇸 Service, democracy, and the last mile. From 4-H to the Peace Corps to the Foreign Service, one belief held: the Constitution is kept, not inherited. We keep it for each other.

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The Last Mile with USAID

Rubio leadership is a joke.

State Department map of Africa mislabels every country at AIDS conferenceThe State Department said that it took “full responsibility” for the confusion caused and that the map was produced by a team member who hastily changed the slide deck.www.nbcnews.com
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Blame Elon Musk and Donald Trump for the Out-of-Control Ebola CrisisJeremy Konyndyk, who helped lead the U.S. response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, writes about the deadly consequences DOGE's dismantling of USAID has had, as Congo struggles to contain the virus.substack.com
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Afrikaner and Right-Wing European Groups Would Gain From Trump’s New Human Rights FundingProposed grant recipients have included a free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion therapy” and an Afrikaner group that promotes self-governance.www.propublica.org
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Hiring diplomats for “cultural fit” is how merit becomes loyalty and expertise becomes ideology. America’s Foreign Service doesn’t swear an oath to a president or a political movement. It swears an oath to the Constitution. Patronage is not reform. It’s institutional decay.

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“A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign AidLawmakers gave specific orders to Trump officials on foreign aid spending, but officials have refused to follow many of them — likely in violation of the law, experts say. In doing so, they’re escalat...www.propublica.org
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New report reveals consequences of Trump administration's HIV/AIDS funding cutsA new report is detailing the impact of cuts to USAID and the program known as PEPFAR, which has been credited with saving over 26 million lives since 2003. The study from the HIV/AIDS non-profit amfA...www.pbs.org
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237 years ago, in 1789, the U.S. Department of State was born. Mark the occasion with a simple question: In your opinion, who has been the worst Secretary of State in American history?

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One-third of the State Dept. offices handed USAID’s surviving programs had no foreign assistance management experience. Thousands of programs were terminated. No one should be surprised. Expertise is treated as expendable. Another reminder of what we have allowed to happen to our country.

Watchdog finds staffing, guidance gaps in transfer of USAID programsThe U.S. State Department's hurried takeover of aid programs from the shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) last year was hampered by staffing shortages, IT issues and delayed gu...www.reuters.com
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Self first. Party second. Country last.

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