Three quarters of Americans support restoring US disease prevention aid to help contain the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, according to new polling, despite the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to foreign aid last year.
The survey, conducted by Echelon Insights on behalf of The Rockefeller Foundation, found that 75 per cent of respondents backed restoring funding to tackle the outbreak. The support extended across the political spectrum, with just over half, at 52 per cent, identifying as supporters of US President Donald Trump, who made cutting billions from US aid funding a priority upon returning to the White House last year.
