How Trump Administration Officials Ignored Warnings and Cut Food Aid, Creating a Hunger Crisis
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Brett Murphy, Anna Maria Barry-Jester, and Brian Otieno
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An investigative report detailing how the Trump administration's foreign aid advisers, during a 2023 trip to Kenya, ignored repeated warnings from career USAID officials and aid workers about the catastrophic consequences of slashing humanitarian food aid programs. The article reveals through internal documents and interviews that political appointees pushed through deep cuts to emergency food assistance despite clear evidence that millions would face starvation, creating what aid workers describe as a man-made hunger crisis across multiple vulnerable regions.
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· 3 pulledThe visitors from Washington included Marcus Thornton, a former Border Patrol agent known for a series of public lawsuits against the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandate; Kenneth Jackson, a former oil executive who had done a stint in government under the first Trump administration; and Laken Rapier, who'd previously managed co
Brutal and traumatizing: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
On July 18, a mild, overcast night in Nairobi, Kenya, a team of President Donald Trump's top foreign aid advisers ducked into a meeting room at the Tribe Hotel, their luxury accommodations in the city's diplomatic quarter, for a private dinner.
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