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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know most of you are probably more interested in arguing the geopolitical fallout, but this has devastating effects on people.

I just had my entire NGO’s work stopped. All around the world, hundreds of people, stopped. I will spend next week laying them all off, I think. What else can I do? And then when the pause is lifted will I even have an organization to reboot? We may be operationally dead by then. Which, since we are a bunch of woke liberals I suppose is the point.

That leaves aside the impacts (and huge waste) of putting health programming on ice for weeks or months. Infectious disease doesn’t take a break. Death in childbirth doesn’t take a break. [/quote]

Sadly, the point is to break your organization. Once broken, there is no one to give money to and no program people to carry out programs.  And at the same time, USAID staff will be laid off (a lot of their work happens with civil service except, PSCs or contractor organizations, which will also be fired), so there will be fewer people to conceptualize programming and write contracts and monitor outcomes and spending.

Please partner with news organizations to get the story out about how this affects programs on the ground & how that diminishes US power and influence around the world and diminishes US business. (Because Americans don’t seem to care that the US saved starving people nor know that much of our “aid” actually serves the domestic US interests - like food aid comes from farmers in Iowa and military aid means US weapons factories are building and employing and paying taxes).[/quote]

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