{"id":109910,"date":"2025-02-07T10:03:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T10:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/obama-reaches-out-to-congress-over-trumps-dismantling-of-usaid\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T10:03:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T10:03:39","slug":"obama-reaches-out-to-congress-over-trumps-dismantling-of-usaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/obama-reaches-out-to-congress-over-trumps-dismantling-of-usaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama reaches out to Congress over Trump\u2019s \u2018dismantling\u2019 of USAID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 7 \u2013 Former United States President Barack Obama has criticized Donald Trump\u2019s decision to dismantle USAID, calling it a profound foreign policy mistake.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obama urged Congress to oppose the executive order, emphasizing that USAID has played a crucial role in fighting disease, feeding children, and promoting goodwill worldwide for the past six decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUSAID has been fighting disease, feeding children, and promoting goodwill around the world for six decades. Dismantling this agency would be a profound foreign policy mistake\u2014one that Congress should resist,\u201d he said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s remarks follow the January 24 announcement by the US administration, which paused billions of dollars in foreign aid funding for 90 days pending a policy review.<\/p>\n<p>After his inauguration in January, President Trump signed several executive orders, including a 90-day suspension of US foreign aid and the withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n<p>The decision has created uncertainty for many African countries, including Kenya, which rely on US aid and funding from other developed nations for economic sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>In Kenya, USAID has provided emergency food assistance, therapeutic nutrition, and humanitarian aid to refugee populations and host communities. <\/p>\n<p>The agency has also delivered emergency health and nutrition services, safe drinking water, hygiene kits, and other relief supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, USAID has created employment for over 40,000 people, who now face uncertainty and the threat of job loss.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 7 \u2013 Former United States President Barack Obama has criticized Donald Trump\u2019s decision to dismantle USAID, calling it a profound foreign policy mistake. Obama urged Congress to oppose the executive order, emphasizing that USAID has played a crucial role in fighting disease, feeding children, and promoting goodwill worldwide for the past six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}