Bummer: Killing USAID Is Bad For ‘Climate Change’

BTW, Trump has all the authority needed to kill the program, since it was created by Jimmy Carter with an Executive Order. Which means Trump creating DOGE is just fine

Ending USAID climate programs could increase security risks

The axing of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which Elon Musk has vowed to “kill” with President Trump’s support, could destabilize regions where human-caused climate change is hitting particularly hard.

Why it matters: By ending humanitarian assistance and proactive climate resilience and adaptation programs, the U.S. military could get pulled into responding to more future crises.

Experts tell Axios that axing the agency completely, or even significantly downsizing it, would have security implications when it comes to climate change.

I don’t. Especially since we all know that most of the money will never end up where it is supposed to go. It’ll go in lots of people’s pockets. It’s a slush fund.

Zoom in: According to archived versions of USAID’s websites, the agency helps countries cut their emissions, conserve carbon-rich tropical rainforests and rely more on renewable energy sources.

“Climate change affects nearly everything we do at USAID,” its climate page stated as of Jan. 17, according to the Internet Wayback Machine.

“As such, the Agency mainstreams climate change considerations across much of our development and humanitarian assistance work.”

Don’t care. Time for USAID to die, and move on to all sorts of other agencies to cut.

What they’re saying: Curtailing USAID is “going to add substantially to the instability in these volatile regions, because vulnerable populations will be doing without,” Sherri Goodman, a senior fellow at the Wilson Center and board chair at the Council on Strategic Risks, told Axios.

Let them get their own money.

Also the cult

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