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Study Finds U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts Could Kill 14 Million People by 2030

HeadlineJul 02, 2025

A new study finds the Trump administration’s halt to foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development could result in 14 million additional deaths by 2030. Researchers publishing in the British medical journal The Lancet compared the impact of the Trump administration’s cuts to a pandemic or major armed conflict, warning, “Unlike those events this crisis would stem from a conscious and avoidable policy choice — one whose burden would fall disproportionately on children and younger populations, and whose consequences could reverberate for decades.” The study was published as Secretary of State Marco Rubio celebrated the end of USAID on Tuesday, writing in an online post, “We will not apologize for recognizing America’s longstanding commitment to life-saving humanitarian aid and promotion of economic development abroad must be in furtherance of an America First foreign policy.”

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