The Trump administration has canceled 90% of USAID's foreign aid contracts, including critical programs that provide lifesaving therapeutic food to malnourished children.
Mana Nutrition's CEO reports that ready-to-ship boxes of peanut paste that could save approximately 300,000 children are now stranded in a Georgia warehouse.
Despite Secretary of State Rubio's claims that "lifesaving humanitarian assistance" would be spared, numerous essential health programs have been terminated, including those preventing diseases like polio, HIV, and Ebola.
These cuts contradict claims about targeting "wokeness" or "waste," instead showing a reckless abandonment of America's global humanitarian commitments.
Except that California’s GDP is insane. It’s also the home of all the tech billionaires. We live in an age where communication is no longer really affected by distance, and even still that’s why so many governments have representatives, and if you don’t like them there are options much of the time. Americans are great at constantly reinforcing the systems they claim to hate.
Also, plenty of right-wingers in economically barren states get representation and are listened to because they make a fuss(ok it’s more like a temper-tantrum, but it does the job).