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The Trump administration has decided to cut nearly all of U.S. AID's foreign assistance grants, effectively gutting the agency.

NPR's Fatmatanis reports.

The State Department says it's decided to terminate more than 90% of the agency's grants, quote, as part of the America

First Agenda. Only 500 will be continued. The State Department says the programs that USAID is keeping

includes food and life-saving assistance for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria. But NPR has heard

from aid groups that life-saving humanitarian programs, including ones that provide HIV medications and polio vaccinations, have been terminated.

It seems that some of those termination notices have gone out in haste because some groups receive them twice.

But USAID officials and aid groups are worried that cuts to USAID's programs will lead to loss of life.

In Sudan alone, where there's widespread hunger, more than 1,000 kitchens supported by USAID have closed.

Fat Matanis, NPR News.

The Pentagon is ordering the removal of trans service members as early as next month,

in accordance for the executive order signed by

President Trump in January. MPR. Scott Newman reports attorneys general in at least 21 states

say they'll try to block the military from implementing the policy. The policy memo says that

service members and recruits who have been diagnosed with, treated for, or showed symptoms of

gender dysphoria, are to be

separated from the military. A similar policy was put in place during the first Trump presidency,

but it was subsequently reversed during the Biden administration. The move follows a Trump

White House executive order reinstating the policy issued a month ago. The latest Pentagon memo

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