USAID Official Sounds Alarm Over Trump’s Foreign Aid Block and Its Impact on Lives

A senior official with the U.S. Agency for International Development in an email on Sunday warned that the Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency will result in unnecessary deaths — only to email his staff less than 30 minutes later to say that he had been placed on leave.

Nicholas Enrich, USAID’s acting assistant administrator for global health, in the seven-page memo shared with staff, and which was seen by Reuters, said “political leadership” had made it impossible to deliver lifesaving humanitarian assistance around the world, contradicting assurances from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that such aid would continue despite President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s cost-cutting campaign.

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