5/Project 2025 isn't "conservative" about foreign aid, development & global health programs -- no, it is militantly opposed, claiming ALL such programs push climate change, gender and vaccine "propaganda" and line the corrupt pockets of NGOs. t.co/M4GTfC8jZi MORE
6/White House honcho Stephen Miller: "We looked at #USAID as an example...98% of the workforce either donated to Kamala Harris or another left wing candidate." Firing PEPFAR & USAID workers purges "left-wingers" out of government, Vought & Miller insist. wbur.org/onpoint/2025... MORE
7/Cutting foreign aid has never been about saving $$ -- the entire 2024 aid budget, including HIV, PEPFAR, global health, famine relief -- was less than 1% of the U.S. budget. kff.org/global-healt... Moreover, the top NGO recipients are Christian. MORE
8/Catholic Relief Services tops the list, receiving (until now) $4.6 billion. Save the Children garners $1.5B; WorldVision $1.2B; Mercy Corps $1.1B. In February Trump called the govt USAID workers and these NGOs, “a bunch of radical lunatics.” forbes.com/sites/sarado... MORE
9/Catholic Relief Serv Mission "PROMOTE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT by responding to major emergencies, fighting disease & poverty, & nurturing peaceful & just societies; SERVE CATHOLICS IN THE US as they live their faith in solidarity w/their brothers & sisters around the world." crs.org/about-us/mis... MORE
10/ "World Vision is an international partnership of Christians whose mission is to follow our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in working with the poor & oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice, & bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God." worldvision.org/about-us/mis...
11/Mercy Corps: "Our mission: to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities." mercycorps.org/who-we-are MORE
12/“Save the Children is often told that its aims are impossible – that there has always been child suffering & there always will be. We know it’s impossible only if we make it so. It’s impossible only if we refuse to attempt it." savethechildren.org/us/what-we-do
13/There is a great deal of confusion right now for global health, humanitarian responses, food aid, development and other overseas efforts: How much money remains? Can Trump rescind Congressionally-approved funds? But one thing is clear: This man seeks aid annihilation. MORE
14/ Chap 9, Project2025 manifesto is on foreign aid. Key quotes: "The aid industry claims that climate change causes poverty, which is false...USAID’s response to man-made food insecurity is to provide more billions of dollars—a recipe that will keep scores of poor countries dependent on aid." MORE
15/"Instead of protecting women’s and children’s unalienable human rights and propelling their ability to thrive in society, past Democrat Administrations have nearly erased what females are and what femininity is through 'gender' policies and practices." MORE
