Summary
The Trump administration has canceled 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts, including critical programs that provide lifesaving therapeutic food to malnourished children.
Mana Nutrition’s CEO reports that ready-to-ship boxes of peanut paste that could save approximately 300,000 children are now stranded in a Georgia warehouse.
Despite Secretary of State Rubio’s claims that “lifesaving humanitarian assistance” would be spared, numerous essential health programs have been terminated, including those preventing diseases like polio, HIV, and Ebola.
These cuts contradict claims about targeting “wokeness” or “waste,” instead showing a reckless abandonment of America’s global humanitarian commitments.
While I still think it’s not a very strong excuse, the distance thing, I do very much agree with the rest.
I lost track of what was supposed to be my point. Probably should’ve illustrated it at the end of my comment. My underlying thesis is that it’s easy to just ignore emails, mail, phone, and text. It’s a lot harder to ignore folks in person. So the distance ain’t the core issue per se, but it’s exaggerating a very notable issue with the DC bubble.
And yea most of what I was saying was in regards to their accessibility not changing all that much unless you happened to live right there.
I agree with the needing to live amongst their constituents. They don’t use the same infrastructure, experience the same weather effects, or otherwise need to engage with much of what their policies affect. Protest shouldn’t be the way things get done; having a representative that actually represents in the first place should be the play. Luckily, those two things can be made possible in the same way.
Yep, also it’d be annoying for lobbyists groups. Rather than having a maybe a handful of teams in DC wining and dining nearly every Congress Critter they’d have to spread them across nearly every district. Which opens up the possibility of elimination of corporate lobbyists simply by running them out whenever they get setup.