Donald Trump was warned by an expert on Saturday that the President is causing great harm to the world and the U.S.
Atul Gawande, a former professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and former United States Agency for International Development official, took to social media over the weekend to sound the alarm. The surgeon and medical professor has studied hospital profits in the past.
“I ran USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US,” Gawande said.
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Citing some purported “examples,” Gawande said the stop work order “stops work battling a deadly Marburg outbreak in Tanzania and a wide outbreak of a mpox variant killing children in west Africa before it spreads further,” “stops monitoring of bird flu in 49 countries, a disease which already killed an American on home soil,” “stops critical work to eradicate polio,” and even “stops >$1B in corporate drug donations and coordination eradicating tropical diseases like river blindness, elephantiasis, and others on the verge of elimination in whole regions.”
Further, he said, the plan “stops medicines, supplies, systems building, staff support aiding >90 million women and children to get low cost vaccinations, prenatal care, safe childbirth, contraception, and other basic lifesaving health needs.”
He added that it also “stops direct services for 6.5 million orphans, vulnerable children, and their caregivers affected by HIV in 23 countries,” “stops donated drug supplies keeping 20 million people living with HIV alive,” and “would furlough all USAID contract staff — which includes half of its global health bureau—unless exempted.”
“This Administration is trashing US standing, alliances with scores of countries built over half a century, world-leading capacity and expertise, and American security,” the expert added.