Thread by @ChrisMurphyCT

Look, Trump is trying to oversaturate us with nonstop chaos so we can’t react meaningfully to any one thing.

But Friday's global stop work order on almost all U.S. aid is dumb and murderous. You need to know about it.

1/ A short🧵on this evil.
cnn.com/2025/01/24/pol…

2/ First, this isn't a funding pause. It's a STOP WORK ORDER to almost all aid. Unprecedented.

So today we just stopped feeding babies and housing refugees and mediating conflicts all around the world. Aid orgs are laying off staff and many programs will not restart.

3/ Tons of kids are just going to die needlessly. Famine has struck in Sudan, but because of the freeze, our most important life savings programs shut down. Within weeks or maybe days, malnourished babies who rely on our food and care will die.
news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

4/ The terrorists will benefit. In Lebanon, our programs help fight against Hezbollah influence. In Syria, our money keeps the ISIS prison camps operating. If there is no winter fuel in those camps, there could be a riot that leads to a break out from the camp.

5/ Trump is deporting millions of people while making conditions worse in the countries he’s sending people back to – defunding schools, clinics, and refugee camps. The people he deports will just end up returning here.

But that's also the point - more immigration chaos.

6/ Aid programs were told to apply for "waivers". But it's a joke - there is no waiver program, no one to review the waivers. It's just cruel busy work to further overwhelm and punish aid agencies. Because cruelty is also the point.

7/ The point of all this is to destroy U.S. power in the world. That primarily helps China, who is INCREASING its aid programs as we disappear.

China - the place where all of Trump's billionaires make their products and want deals to open markets.

Think there's a connection?