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Great snapshot of what is going on with US humanatarian assistance!

“A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid Lawmakers gave specific orders to Trump officials on foreign aid spending, but officials have refused to follow many of them — likely in violation of the law, experts say. In doing so, they’re escalating a constitutional crisis.

Sunday's Austin American Statesman:

Ebola a real threat

Re: June 8 article, “Health workers in Congo labor with little pay, rest amid Ebola outbreak”

The medical professionals struggling to save lives and stop the spread of Ebola are ill-equipped because of the Trump administration’s wanton destruction of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its mechanisms to check pandemics before they spread.

That the leader of the free world, obsessed over construction details for his gilded ballroom, is heedless of the Ebola emergency, is truly a source of shame for the American people.

The United States is a wealthy nation and foreign assistance takes less than 1% of our federal budget.

We must demand that our congressional representatives take back the power of the purse and restore our role as leader of global humanitarian assistance.

It is the right thing to do, and it is also in our best interest to fight Ebola in other countries, so we won’t have to fight it here.

Claudia Morgan, Austin

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