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USAID website goes offline amid fears of agency dissolution under Trump

USAID website goes offline amid fears of agency dissolution under Trump

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The US Agency for International Development (USAid) website appeared to be offline on Saturday, displaying an error message indicating that the server IP address could not be found. This comes after official plaques bearing the agency's seal were removed on Friday.

Roshan Pokhrel
1. We definitely know that this is the US people's taxpayers' money.
2. We really did not expect all the programs to stop.
3. We know that it's very hard-earned money. But we in third world countries like Nepal definitely would like to continue utilizing these resources properly.
4. The programs in nutrition and in maternal health will certainly be affected. It's definitely a worrying sign to us.
Chris Murphy
Democratic Party
1. That's what a despot – who wants to steal the taxpayers' money to enrich his billionaire cabal – does.
Marco Rubio
Republican Party
1. These nations were neglected by past administrations that prioritized the global over the local and pursued policies that accelerated China's economic development, often at our neighbors' expense.
Elon Musk
SpaceX
1. Live by executive order, die by executive order.
Nozizwe Ntesang
Lesbians, Gays & Bisexuals of Botswana
1. Today was the first time in years that there was nobody in the drop-in clinics.
2. So there's a real health danger to them not being able to access treatment. Essentially, it's a death sentence.
3. A predominant amount of our funding comes from the United States through PEPFAR and other agencies.
Stephan Klingebiel
German Institute of Development and Sustainability
1. Countries such as China, Russia and others are very happy to move into places where the West is not so strong.
2. If all of this literally comes to a standstill from one day to the next, it will affect people directly.
3. We have often seen that on the African continent, but also elsewhere. Trump is creating new opportunities for China.
4. Even if it had the money, it could not manage the logistics and take charge of the infrastructure in such a short [amount] of time to compensate for the whole thing.
5. This is massive because the US is the world's largest donor of development aid.
Kenneth Ngure
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
1. The project will also suffer if our collaborators in the US lose staff in this period of uncertainty.
Kelly Chibale
University of Cape Town
1. Even if other funders step in to plug the gaps in malaria vaccine funding, there is always an opportunity cost, and so some other development research issue will be neglected as a result.

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