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The Retribution

A senior USAID official was placed on leave Sunday after he wrote a memo blowing the whistle on the Trump administration’s failure to provide lifesaving humanitarian assistance, contradicting claims by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that it was exempt from the freeze on foreign aid.

Shortly after receiving notice that he’d been placed on leave, Nicholas Enrich, USAID’s acting assistant administrator for global health, released a series of memos he’d written. The memos were obtained by the NYT, but it seems to have posted just one of them.

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The impacts on global health outlined by Enrich are devastating, wide-ranging, and suggest hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths will result from Trump’s lawless destruction of USAID.

On a more mundane level, the subtext of Enrich’s revelations is that Rubio and the administration have been less than fully candid with federal courts handling cases challenging the USAID freeze, the sacking of most of its staff, and the termination of most of its contracts.

Whether those misrepresentations are sufficiently material to result in any legal or political blowback will be tested in courts in the coming days.

Trump Administration Wrecks USAID Life-Saving Programs

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