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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Isabel Keane

Trump staffers celebrated slashing USAID with cake despite concerns cuts would lead to millions of deaths

Staffers for President Donald Trump celebrated the administration's elimination of 90 percent of USAID’s work with a cake — even after they were warned the cuts would lead to millions of deaths, according to a report.

A month into Trump’s second term, an inexperienced team led by Marine veteran Peter Marocco and Jeremy Lewin, a 28-year-old with no prior government or aid experience, began to cut U.S. Agency for International Development programs, ProPublica reported.

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