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Dylan Matthews @ Vox 2 place · 01/30/2025 06:00 EDT

Inside Trump’s purge at the agency that saves millions of lives

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is not, in the scheme of things, a big part of the federal government. It dispersed $43.8 billion in the last fiscal year. That adds up to just 0.7 percent of the $6.1 trillion federal budget. USAID isn’t even a full Cabinet agency, but a subset of the […]

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