What Happened When Trump Officials Destroyed USAID (From Reveal)
About this episode
ProPublica reporters discuss the impact of funding cuts to USAID and uncover the truth about aid in South Sudan and Kenya.
This week, we’re presenting a conversation with ProPublica reporters that originally aired on Reveal’s podcast “More to the Story.” When the administration and DOGE cut off funding to USAID, administration officials claimed that aid was still flowing and no one had died as a result. Reporters Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester learned that wasn’t true and traveled to South Sudan and Kenya to find out what really happened. If you have information on foreign aid, contact Murphy here and Barry-Jester here . Read the original reporting here: https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan Support our journalism by donating at propublica.org/donate .
People in this episode
Guests: Brett Murphy, Anna Maria Barry-Jester
Topics covered
- foreign aid
- Trump administration
- investigative journalism
- humanitarian crisis
- South Sudan
- Kenya
Keywords
- USAID
- Trump
- foreign aid
- South Sudan
- Kenya
- humanitarian aid
- investigative reporting
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: ProPublica, USAID, Reveal
Books & works: More to the Story
Places: South Sudan, Kenya
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