USAID being attacked with false information

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USAID is being attacked with false information by the Trump administration, Matthew Kavanagh, Director of the Center for Global Health Policy, tells Al Arabiya News. #USAID #Trump #ElonMusk

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00:00We'll see.

00:01I mean, I think it's a valid question of kind of what of this is just bluster and blunder.

00:07You know, a lot of the information that's being shared is simply false.

00:10You know, recently the White House secretary for the press was telling everyone that there

00:15was $50 million in condoms going to Gaza and that that was an excuse for why they really

00:21had to review everything.

00:22Well, there was no $50 million worth of condoms going to Gaza.

00:26That was just fiction.

00:27So a lot of what is circulating is made up, you know, facts with a tiny bit of truth that

00:32are not actually what they appear, and a lot of things that are just disingenuous.

00:37So the core question is, why is this administration attacking aid programs this way?

00:42What we know is that right now the freeze that's been put on aid programs is having

00:46hugely disastrous impact.

00:49People aren't getting HIV treatment.

00:51People aren't getting HIV prevention.

00:53There are lives being lost right now because the administration has paused all aid.

00:59This isn't like a business.

01:00You can't run it like a business.

01:01This is lifesaving work.

01:03And so stopping it right now is having deeply damaging effects.

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