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Mar 3 • 6 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
NEW: Explosive memos circulating inside USAID detail how Trump appointees ignored and thwarted the agency's senior leaders who tried to make good on the administration's public promises to keep lifesaving aid operations online. 1/
Here's our story about several key moments and players from the past month of destruction and chaos inside USAID. What people knew and when they knew it. w/@annabarryjester propublica.org/article/trump-…
Despite the appeals from across the agency — pointing out the potential for mass death and illness — 90% of the agency's operations were cut last week, including the most vital programs.
And these are some of the stats the government’s own experts have compiled forecasting the fallout: Image
The administration's leaders did not respond to our requests for comment for this story but they have said these programs don't align with Trump's agenda.
We're going to keep reporting on all this. If you'd like to connect, get in touch by Signal at 508-523-5195

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Mar 1
NEW: The Trump administration promised to take months to carefully review all foreign aid.

But less than four weeks later, they cancelled 10,000 programs at once — including those they had already deemed to be critical, lifesaving operations. 1/
@annabarryjester and I got internal USAID and State Department documents that show how haphazard and cursory the process appears to have been. That evidence contradicts what the government has said in court to justify its sweeping actions. propublica.org/article/trump-…
“It’s a pretext,” one USAID official told us. “The review was supposed to take 90 days. An actual review based on substance requires laying out a process with guidelines, identifying info on each project, and selecting working groups to review. Any review they did was fake.”
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Feb 9
NEW: How did the Trump administration disembowel USAID in less than three weeks? The first step was seizing control of the agency’s IT system — including the personal data of all its employees. This, we were told, may have violated federal law. 1/
In today’s story, @annabarryjester and I name the top agency officials who gave “the keys to the kingdom” to Musk’s DOGE engineers + the legal jeopardy the administration may find itself in propublica.org/article/usaid-…
They used their access to the system to rapidly and systematically cull staff, close programs and cripple the agency’s operations. This, experts told us, violates the constitution itself because USAID was established by congress.
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Jan 31
NEW: Trump and Rubio have arrested the international humanitarian aid system and forced lifesaving aid programs to completely halt operations — this despite an announcement earlier in the week claiming they had changed course. 1/
@annabarryjester and I take stock of the dire consequences unfolding around the world:
Emergency care for displaced Palestinians and Yemenis. Heat and electricity for Ukrainian refugees. HIV treatment and mpox surveillance in Africa.
All have had to stop. propublica.org/article/trump-…
Aid groups and government officials say they’ve never faced a catastrophe this sudden and extensive.
Here's a stark example from a group of malnutrition clinics in Sudan Image
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Jan 15
There is a ceasefire deal, so I want to share this story from my past year reporting inside the State Dept. trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy:

How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza? 1/
2/ Since Oct. 7, 2023, Biden and Secretary of State Blinken repeatedly drew lines on humanitarian grounds that the Israelis ostensibly couldn’t cross.

The IDF crossed them anyway.

And each time, there were no real consequences. propublica.org/article/biden-…
3/ Using leaked documents and interviews, we pieced together scenes from inside the government as diplomats and experts repeatedly tried — and failed — to change the policy of not holding Israel to account.
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Oct 4, 2024
Our latest is on the State's secretive arms pipeline to Israel, what senior leaders knew about civilian harm and when, and how they've rushed weapons out the door since Oct 7 anyway — over internal legal objections. A quick thread on the reporting: propublica.org/article/israel…
In January, Jack Lew, Biden’s ambassador to Israel, sent a cable urging Washington to send 3,000 more bombs to the IDF. Lew wrote that there was no potential the Israelis would misuse the bombs because they had a “decades-long proven track record” of avoiding killing civilians.
Lew didn’t mention that 25,000 Palestinians in Gaza were already dead by then; that his own staffers’ homes had been targeted; or the fact that this same kind of bomb was used against civilians in the past.
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Sep 24, 2024
Leaked docs: While Gaza starved, USAID and State's refugees bureau came to a legally explosive conclusion — Israel had deliberately prevented food & medicine from getting in

But Blinken told congress the exact opposite, so the arms could keep flowing. propublica.org/article/gaza-p…
Behind the scenes, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew had pushed Blinken to trust the Israelis, who promised to help facilitate aid — even though Lew's own staff at the embassy had repeatedly told him that wasn't the case.
“No other nation has ever provided so much humanitarian assistance to their enemies,” Lew told them
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