"Atul Gawande, backed up by recent academic studies, says that the decimation of USAID. around the globe has been responsible for some 700,000 deaths, and that number will likely ascend into the seven figures.
The policy is not only immeasurably cruel, Gawande argues; it is also stupid, badly undermining what remains of American soft power and prestige, from Africa to Latin America."
Gawande was Assistant Administrator at USAID in the Biden administration.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/the-human-cost-of-doges-war-on-usaid
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