The process of restoring Musk cuts continues across the Trump Admin as Dept. and Agency heads regain control of their operation’s with DOGE gone….
Will there be USAID workers attached to this?….
The Trump administration on Tuesday claimed foreign aid programs that were cut in error would be restored.
“There were a few programs that were cut in other countries that were not meant to be cut that have been rolled back and put into place,” State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce told reporters at a briefing.
Her comments came hours before the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned of starvation risk for individuals in war torn regions after the White House suspended a significant number of food assistance programs.
The U.S. was the largest funder of the WFP, providing $4.5 billion of the $9.8 billion in donations to the world’s largest food aid provider last year, The Associated Press reported. After intense lobbying from U.N. officials, funding for food programs in Somalia, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Ecuador is expected to be restored, officials from the embattled U.S. Agency for International Development said, per the outlet.
Earlier Tuesday, WFP posted on social platform X that the organization is “deeply concerned by recent notifications from the US administration indicating that funding for emergency food assistance in 14 countries has been terminated.”…..
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Under the direction of White House adviser Elon Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency(DOGE) implemented cuts to a number of programs supported by USAID. In early March, a DOGE staffer, Jeremy Lewin was appointed to the role of COO and deputy administrator for policy and programs at the agency.
Lewin is credited for asking staff to reverse the terminations to food aid programs in an internal email…..
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