{"id":72086,"date":"2026-04-18T08:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/ignorance-and-cruelty-former-usaid-official-details-devastation-inflicted-by-doge-cuts\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:56:23","slug":"ignorance-and-cruelty-former-usaid-official-details-devastation-inflicted-by-doge-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/ignorance-and-cruelty-former-usaid-official-details-devastation-inflicted-by-doge-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ignorance and cruelty\u2019: former USAID official details devastation inflicted by Doge cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Enrich was an eyewitness to the dismantling of the US foreign aid organization by the Trump administration<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nicholas Enrich was working in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a> in 2003 when the then US president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/george-bush\">George W Bush<\/a> signed a landmark $15bn, five-year commitment to combat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/aids-and-hiv\">HIV<\/a>, the largest international health commitment by any nation to fight a single disease.<\/p>\n<p>It was the peak of the epidemic, and for the young American government aid worker \u201cit clicked that my government was ready to join the fight against HIV and I was excited to be a part of that\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/18\/trump-administration-usaid-doge-cuts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Enrich was an eyewitness to the dismantling of the US foreign aid organization by the Trump administration Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Nicholas Enrich was working in Kenya in 2003 when the then US president George W Bush signed a landmark $15bn, five-year commitment &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Ignorance and cruelty\u2019: former USAID official details devastation inflicted by Doge cuts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/ignorance-and-cruelty-former-usaid-official-details-devastation-inflicted-by-doge-cuts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Ignorance and cruelty\u2019: former USAID official details devastation inflicted by Doge 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-72086","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\/72086","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=72086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}