{"id":33007,"date":"2025-02-11T00:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T00:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/nearly-500m-of-food-aid-at-risk-of-spoilage-after-trump-usaid-cuts\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T00:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T00:05:19","slug":"nearly-500m-of-food-aid-at-risk-of-spoilage-after-trump-usaid-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/nearly-500m-of-food-aid-at-risk-of-spoilage-after-trump-usaid-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly $500m of food aid at risk of spoilage after Trump USAid cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US government auditors find cuts have \u2018degraded USAid\u2019s ability to distribute and safeguard humanitarian assistance\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half a billion dollars of food aid is at risk of spoilage following the decision of Donald Trump and Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cDoge\u201d agency to make cuts to USAid, according to an inspector general <a href=\"https:\/\/oig.usaid.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-02\/USAID%20OIG%20-%20Oversight%20of%20USAID-Funded%20Humanitarian%20Assistance%20Programming%20021025.pdf\">(IG) report<\/a> released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Following staff reductions and funding freezes, the US agency responsible for providing humanitarian assistance across the world \u2013 including food, water, shelter and emergency healthcare \u2013 is struggling to function.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/10\/usaid-trump-elon-musk-cuts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US government auditors find cuts have \u2018degraded USAid\u2019s ability to distribute and safeguard humanitarian assistance\u2019 Nearly half a billion dollars of food aid is at risk of spoilage following the decision of Donald Trump and Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cDoge\u201d agency to make cuts to USAid, according to an inspector general (IG) report released on Monday. Following &#8230; <a title=\"Nearly $500m of food aid at risk of spoilage after Trump USAid cuts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/nearly-500m-of-food-aid-at-risk-of-spoilage-after-trump-usaid-cuts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Nearly $500m of food aid at risk of spoilage after Trump USAid cuts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}