Turns out Trump SAVED millions of lives by cancelling the USAID money laundering operation.

[Nostra]

I guess the claim millions died from funding cuts has been debunked. The opposite is true.

Can’t wait for the spin……

Turns Out USAID Funding May Have Caused a Lot of Death and Destruction

Analysis reveals USAID funding may have caused millions of excess deaths, challenging prior claims.

townhall.com

 

[1srelluc]

What, no pyres of the dead lighting up the night sky because....Orange man Bad?

 

[Senior]

Townhall - Conservative News, Political Analysis and Commentary

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townhall.com

Townhall lol.

 

[Nostra]

Townhall lol.

Poor effort.

Come up with better spin.

 

[Senior]

Come up with better spin.

Come up with a much better source.

 

[Care4all]

Nahhh...

To analyze and verify the core arguments likely present in an article with this premise, it is helpful to look at the two competing perspectives that define this debate.

The Critical Perspective (Likely the Basis of the Townhall Argument)
Conservative commentators, think tanks, and the administration have frequently argued that traditional U.S. foreign aid models are counterproductive, wasteful, or actively harmful. Key arguments used to support the idea that aid causes "death and destruction" or destabilization include:

Market Distortion and Economic Harm: Critics often point to cases where massive influxes of free aid cripple local economies. For example, in countries like Haiti, subsidized or free U.S. food aid (like rice) flooded local markets, making it impossible for local farmers to compete. This destroyed domestic agricultural sectors, leaving countries completely reliant on foreign imports and vulnerable to long-term food insecurity.

Funding Corruption and Conflict: A common critique is that foreign aid money is frequently diverted by corrupt governments or militant factions. In conflict zones, aid can inadvertently fund opposing warlords or terrorist organizations who steal or tax humanitarian shipments, thereby prolonging civil wars and increasing casualties.

Bureaucratic Waste: Critics argue that USAID functioned as a massive bureaucracy where a significant portion of taxpayer dollars went to high overhead costs, wealthy U.S.-based defense/development contractors, and NGOs rather than directly to individuals on the ground.

Cultural and Political Interference: Opponents of traditional foreign aid often argue that it has been used as a tool to impose Western social or political agendas on developing nations, creating resentment and political instability.


The Global Health and Humanitarian Perspective

In sharp contrast to these criticisms, mainstream public health organizations, epidemiologists, and international bodies argue that the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. foreign aid has had devastating, lethal consequences.

Massive Loss of Life from Funding Cuts: Following the administration’s dismantling of USAID and the cancellation of roughly 86% of its programs, independent analyses published in journals like The Lancet estimated that USAID programs had saved roughly 92 million lives over two decades. Modeling by epidemiologists from Boston University and the Center for Global Development estimated that the sudden halt of funding for HIV/AIDS treatments, malaria prevention, tuberculosis programs, and childhood vaccines resulted in hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths worldwide within the first year alone.

Worsening Humanitarian Crises: Humanitarian groups note that cutting aid to organizations like the World Food Programme in conflict-ridden areas (such as Yemen, Sudan, and Somalia) abruptly cut off lifelines for millions, exacerbating famines and driving up child mortality from severe acute malnutrition.

National Security Risks: Proponents of aid argue that global health assistance acts as a frontline defense against pandemics. Discontinuing global disease surveillance and vaccine programs increases the risk that drug-resistant illnesses or outbreaks (like Ebola or avian flu) could spread unchecked and eventually reach the United States.


Summary Verification

If the article asserts that U.S. aid has historically caused economic dependency, disrupted local markets, or occasionally been co-opted by corrupt actors, those specific sub-claims are grounded in real, documented economic and geopolitical critiques of foreign development.

However, if the article uses those points to argue that eliminating foreign aid altogether saves lives, it runs directly counter to the overwhelming consensus of the global scientific and humanitarian communities. Public health data and epidemiological tracking show that the retraction of U.S. global health and food assistance has led directly to a measurable spike in worldwide mortality, particularly among children and vulnerable populations suffering from preventable diseases.

Gemini A/ I

 

[Darkwind]

Come up with a much better source.

This from a clown who promotes and posts the most extreme and radicalized sources.

 

[Alicia J]

Nazi Trump and Nazi Musk are responsible for close to a million deaths in Africa so far, due to their destruction of USAID.

There is something extremely perverse and evil about the wealthiest man on Earth (Musk) denying food and medicine to the poorest people on Earth.

It's about the most despicable, evil thing this country has ever done.

This thread is pure white supremacist trolling garbage, just like most of the threads on this toxic right-wing hate message board.

The truth. --

President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal.

A third of those at risk of premature deaths were children, researchers projected.

Low- and middle-income countries were facing a shock "comparable in scale to a global pandemic or a major armed conflict," said Davide Rasella, who co-authored the report.

Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds

The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.

www.bbc.com

The shutdown of USAID has already caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. --

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

www.newyorker.com

 

[Nostra]

Come up with a much better source.

Sure, right after you debunk mine.

Whining like a punk that you don’t like it means nothing……other than you are a whiny punk.

 

[Nostra]

Nazi Trump and Nazi Musk are responsible for close to a million deaths in Africa so far, due to their destruction of USAID.

There is something extremely perverse and evil about the wealthiest man on Earth (Musk) denying food and medicine to the poorest people on Earth.

It's about the most despicable, evil thing this country has ever done.

This thread is pure white supremacist trolling garbage, just like most of the threads on this toxic right-wing hate message board.

The truth. --

Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds

The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.

www.bbc.com

The shutdown of USAID has already caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. --

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

www.newyorker.com

Got at least one name of a dead person?

 

[Winston]

I guess the claim millions died from funding cuts has been debunked. The opposite is true.

Can’t wait for the spin……

Turns Out USAID Funding May Have Caused a Lot of Death and Destruction

Analysis reveals USAID funding may have caused millions of excess deaths, challenging prior claims.

townhall.com

but add one critical covariate the original paper omitted: an index of left-wing governance strength, scored from 0 to 1 based on the proportion of cabinet positions held by self-identified socialists, communists, or Peronists during each year.

LMAO

 

[riseabovethis]

Come up with a much better source.

You don't trust G K Masterton who did the study and turns out to be a science fiction writer, gamer and a long‑haul trucker. Definitely qualified to conduct studies.

Don't you know every long-haul truck driving has all the time in the world to conduct studies while they're spending the night in their truck.

 

[candycorn]

Turns out Trump SAVED millions of lives by cancelling the USAID money laundering operation​

Yeah, nobody believes that; including the OP.

Even your link hedges on the claim saying “may have”. If right wing kook media is lawyering up on the silly claims...you know the reporting is nonsense.

 

[Lesh]

I guess the claim millions died from funding cuts has been debunked. The opposite is true.

Can’t wait for the spin……

Turns Out USAID Funding May Have Caused a Lot of Death and Destruction

Analysis reveals USAID funding may have caused millions of excess deaths, challenging prior claims.

townhall.com

The claim is that USAID funding caused despotic regimes to take or hold power

Pure bullshit

 

[my2¢]

Reagon popularized the Russian proverb: 'Trust but verify'.
Just over a decade earlier a U.S. representative from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) with Russia came to our high school and during his talk also touched upon the topic of verification.

(AMN Healthcare)

(The Lancet)

(Townhall)

(X)

 

[Alicia J]

Got at least one name of a dead person?

Got the name of at least one person who's life who was saved, as you claimed in your racist troll OP?

It's your thread.....prove your racist bullshit first.

 

[Eman623]

The claim is that USAID funding caused despotic regimes to take or hold power

Pure bullshit

For once I tend to agree with you. At the very least it's an unprovable claim.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

We have no responsibility nor obligation to be funding anybody in Africa or anywhere else. If people there are dying that's on their governments for not stepping up to the plate and doing their job.

 

[dudmuck]

We have no responsibility nor obligation to be funding anybody in Africa or anywhere else. If people there are dying that's on their governments for not stepping up to the plate and doing their job.

 

[Nostra]

Got any names of these dead people?