House Democrats decry Trump dismantling of USAID, cite hundreds of thousands of deaths
In a House special-order hour led by Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), multiple Democrats condemned the Trump administration's 2025 decision to freeze foreign aid, cancel ~83% of USAID programs, fire most staff, and fold remaining functions into the State Department. Speakers including Reps. Lois Frankel, Jim McGovern, Seth Moulton, Raja Krishnamoorthi (misidentified as Subramanian/Suozzi in transcript), Madeleine Dean and Brad Sherman described the move as destructive to U.S. national security, citing halted clean-water, education, malaria, nutrition and peace-accord programs in Nigeria, Nepal, Colombia, DRC, Myanmar and Liberia. They linked cuts to specific child deaths, a major Ebola outbreak in DRC, rising cholera and malaria, lost U.S. jobs, and weakened soft power amid an ongoing U.S.-Iran war. Speakers urged restoring funding and referenced studies projecting hundreds of thousands to millions of excess deaths.
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