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myanmar has been ripped apart by a brutal civil war. military dictatorship that seized power in a coup in 2021. battling numerous insurgent groups. the conflict has forced more than 3 million people to flee their homes and now aid organizations tell cnn they only have a month and a half of funding left to feed refugees along the thai border with myanmar. leaving smaller aid groups scrambling to fill the gap. you're going into myanmar. >> this will go across the border. yeah. >> kanchana thornton regularly takes food, infant formula and medicine across the border river to desperate people in the conflict zone. the u.s. funding cut made matters worse. why is it affecting you? you don't get money from washington. >> well, patients come to us and asking us for help. >> because they're not getting. >> it from. >> the original. >> yeah, because they're not getting support that they should from the ngo that got the funding cut. >> everywhere we go in this poverty stricken border region, we hear about basic services disrupted and aid workers be

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musical in myanmar are not requirements for the vietnamese and myanmar people to succeed. a government that works for them. president trump is forcing the governments to reprioritize what is needed for their country's success. >> bill: each country will have to make decisions here. columbia says it is loseing $70 million. last question. is it practical to think we can save a trillion dollars or in the end is it more likely if you get halfway there you will be satisfied with that? >> put it to you this way, bill. in 2019 we spent 4 1/2 trillion dollars as a country. federal budget was 4 1/2 trillion. it is now 7 1/2 trillion. all we have to do is to get back to where we were just five years ago. it is 100% doable. doge is the beginning of that. congress has to act as well. good to see u.s. congressmen on the doge subcommittee step up. >> bill: james, thank you. i guess you have the thumbs-up from the president and how you get on the team. that's what i take away from that first answer. james live in tampa. thank you for your time today. >> thank you. >> dana: in moments the

myanmar border.ions, uganda's malaria council has suspended insecticide spraying and shipments of bed nets, one of the most effective tools in limiting the spread of the disease have ended medical supplies to help pregnant women and save babies from dying of diarrhea are no longer reaching villagers in zambia. efforts to eradicate polio and stop an outbreak of the marburg virus, which is similar to ebola and has a death rate of up to 90%, have stopped the delivery of daily medications that are keeping alive 20 million people in 50 countries who are hiv positive is halted in sudan. staffers at a us supported aid agency faced an impossible choice defy president donald trump's order to immediately stop their operations or let up to 100 babies and toddlers die. republican senator bill cassidy, a physician, posted this saying that about the hiv program in africa. pepfar is the epitome of soft power. it is a republican initiative. it is pro-life, pro-america, and the most popular us program in africa. ther

the drug enforcement administration tells us they are coming from india, myanmar, southeast asia, andently we learned that there are canadian super labs making fentanyl directly, the precursors and the fentanyl. those super labs are shipping it to drug traffickers in australia and new zealand. but some is coming south of the border into the united states. the point is, you have drug prohibition the opportunity to make money -- remember, people seem to talk about it as if drug trafficking organizations south of the border launch missiles into the united states that explode and release fentanyl into the air that then goes, you know, looking around for people to go into and kill. that is what they say. they are poisoning our country. no. we have drug prohibition, and just like with alcohol prohibition, as long as there is a market and people want to buy at the market is going to be met, and there is a term we use in the policy world called the iron law of prohibition, which is, the heart of the enforcement, the heart of the drug. prohibition incentivizes the drug traffickers to come up w

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in myanmar, the rescue operation is part of the crack down on scam centers. in southeast asia, which often use traffic labor, and then trick victims around the world out of billions of dollars a year at least 6 people have been killed and several others injured after a fire broke out and a luxury hotel in the city of the sun in south korea blazes believed to started in an area on the 1st floor that was under construction. the exact cause has not yet been determined. and the united states, heavy rains across los angeles are threatening to cause land slides and sweep up debris from the areas affected by last month's wild flyers. sand bags and concrete barriers are being distributed in order to stem flooding. north in california is also on flood watches, heavy rainfall continues us present. donald trump says he's preparing broad tariffs on all trading partners of the united states. trump is told his economic team to devise plans for reciprocal levies on every country. texting us imports, the order would also attack non tear up measures like safety regulations an

army has freed 260 people from 20 countries who were forced into working an online scam centers in myanmar. the rescue operation as part of a crackdown scam centers and southeast asia, which often use traffic, labor, and trick victims around the world out of billions of dollars a year. milton group, hamas is expected to name 3 hostages today that it will release this weekend as part of the ceasefire. deal with israel and the ending the conflict and gaza as follows, days of uncertainty, and went to israel, threatened to scrap the deal after her. mazda accused the government of benjamin netanyahu of failing to live up to his commitments, people in goss, i meanwhile, struggling to survive a body of refuge account, northern garza, or what's left of it, one's home to thousands of palestinians. 15 months of is of devastating, more have destroyed homes, neighborhoods, nice memories, displaced and exhausted. residents return home with this letter to help them cope with a devastation high as they have the life is unbearable. we go to sleep and to use and we wake up in t is no one to no one is even

army has read 260 people from 20 countries who were forced into working an online scam centers in myanmar. the rescue operation is part of cracked down on scam centers. and southeast asia, which often use traffic, labor, and trick victims around the world out of billions of dollars a year. a palestinian milton group of mine says it will release 3 is rarely hostages this saturday, as planned. a mouse has threatened to delay the release and had accused israel of failing to live up to its promises under the deal. claim is real denied. although that has some small scales in baset or over to russian drones. it said violated it's aerospace and exploded on its territory. officials said the incursion took place during an attack on a danube river poured in neighboring ukraine. romania said it's airspace was also breached german luxury and car maker. poor says it will cut 1900 jobs by 2029 to factories in germany are said to be effective force share price has fallen. 30 percent in the past year. as a business in china is weekend. news comes as other major german car makers like volkswagen, also con

the type b on mobile to speak to tony chang live in the may law refugee camp, where refugees from myanmar facing cops in food and medical aid. tony. so we are pretty much looking at a situation where there's a huge amount of confusion or an awful lot of quick fun efforts to try and plug the gap that's being left by this decision. how are things unfolding as well? i think just the an awful lot of uncertainty of behind me is mela, refugee camp. this is one of 7 along the timing on my boat that is almost exclusively funded by the us state department. and the people who run these camps just don't know what to do of essential services of basically being cats of they've still got was a here, but one of the other camps about 2 hours away wolf has been cut off. they've got no medical services at home. the people that are in charge of food distribution here say they've got enough until the end of the month. but off of that, they just don't know. some of the other organizations have given us a confirmation that they will not pay for that people and his stuff to death. but when one does, where are t

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killing her in myanmar. these stories are happening all over the world now.lan walsh, the new york times africa bureau chief, will join us later in this hour with his firsthand reporting of the suffering he has seen at the hands of the richest person in the world who has decided to inflict as much pain and death as he possibly can on the poorest people in the world, the poorest children in the world, the poorest starving infant babies in the world. let's just assume for a moment that the $57,000 that usaid spent in sri lanka was a complete waste of money. do you shut down an entire operation, a $40 billion operation, an entire government agency over a disputed $57,000. the first claim by elon musk about shutting down usaid was that it had to be shut down temporarily, so that they could properly evaluate all of its spending to make careful decisions about what should be cut. and a day later, elon musk was saying that usaid must be thrown in the woodchipper. that was his term, the wood chipper. it must be completely destroyed. and so the only reason we know it

. >> survive and flee from myanmar to thailand. >> she was in a camp. >> with over. >> 10,000 people.d they cut off her oxygen. and she died. >> and no future waiver. >> is going to bring her back. >> to life. >> yesterday, sir charles, the former head of usaid bureau for humanitarian assistance, testified to a group of senate democrats. >> for any of you that have traveled to see usaid programs. >> in action. >> you may have seen a. >> nutrition center. >> treating severely malnourished children. >> it is. >> truly a horrific sight. >> children are particularly. >> susceptible to. >> disease and. environments with. >> poor water and sanitation. >> maybe without. >> access to. >> vaccines are particularly vulnerable. >> to wasting what we call this severest forms of. >> of malnutrition. it takes children quite. >> quickly. >> even those. children who. >> don't die. >> can have. >> permanent brain damage. but the miracle. >> of malnutrition is. >> it can be. >> treated quite inexpensively. >> and quite. >> easily. >> largely with products that are produced using peanuts. >> grown in th

refugees from war torn myanmar say services at their refugee camp came to a sudden stop after the u.s. froze aid to the region. >> we don't have money to buy medicines. we will all die if we have no medicine at the camp. >> part of the fallout worldwide of president trump's decision to gut the u.s. agency for international development, usaid, the agency that provides food and other humanitarian assistance to millions around the world. the president, citing alleged waste and fraud unearthed by elon musk's department of government efficiency. >> 60% of the budget goes to humanitarian emergencies, literally to provide shelter, food and medicine to keep people alive. >> in 2023, usaid says it provided nearly $2 billion in food assistance to more than 45 million people around the world. but now, food services in famine stricken places like sudan are already shutting down programs to provide safe drinking water for billions of people in places like the democratic republic of congo. ethiopia and india are under threat, and the impact on treatments for disease could be catastrophic. >> there

. >> at this hospital in thailand, refugees from war torn myanmar say services at their refugee camp came to a sudden stop after the u.s. froze aid to the region. >> we thought, well. >> we don't have money to buy medicines. we will all die if we have no medicine at the camp. >> part of the fallout worldwide of president trump's decision to gut the u.s. agency for international development, usaid, the agency that provides food and other humanitarian assistance to millions around the world. the president, citing alleged waste and fraud unearthed by elon musk's department of government efficiency. >> 60% of the budget goes to humanitarian emergencies, literally to provide shelter, food and medicine to keep people alive. >> in 2023. usaid says it provided nearly $2 billion in food assistance to more than 45 million people around the world, but now food services in famine stricken places like sudan are already shutting down programs to provide safe drinking water for billions of people in places like the democratic republic of congo, ethiopia and india are under threat, and the impact on

come see what is happening right now in jordan or syria, in bangladesh or in myanmar, and decide on the of what you're seeing, what responsible action to review and to alter those programs might look like. >> i want to talk briefly about the usaid, obviously, and you've touched on this. does all of this work to help so many people around the world. it was originally conceived as a tool, a cold war tool of soft power to help people around the world feel like america was a place that was supporting them in this sort of great struggle. liz cheney. uh, retweeted something that elon musk put up and she says, quote, i'm proud of what america did to win the cold war, defeat soviet communism and defend democracy. our nation stood for freedom. you may be unfamiliar with that part of our history. since you weren't yet an american citizen. now she's taking a dig at elon musk there. but this piece of it, i mean, talk a little bit about what china is doing in this way and whether this means that the u.s. is ceding ground to china in this kind of a back and forth. >> it's that history is so interesti

. >> reporter at this hospital in thailand, refugees from war torn myanmar say services at their refugeep came to a sudden stop after the u.s. froze aid to the region. >> we don't have money to buy medicines. >> we will all die if we have no. medicine at. >> the camp. >> part of the fallout worldwide of president trump's decision to gut the u.s. agency for international development, usaid, the agency that provides food and other humanitarian assistance to millions around the world. the president, citing alleged waste and fraud unearthed by elon musk's department of government efficiency. >> 60% of the budget. >> goes to. humanitarian emergencies. >> literally to provide shelter, food. >> and. >> medicine to keep people. >> alive. >> in 2023, usaid says it provided nearly $2 billion in food assistance to more than 45 million people around the world. but now, food services in famine stricken places like sudan are already shutting down programs to provide safe drinking water for billions of people in places like the democratic republic of congo, ethiopia and india are under threat, and the

nationalist movements like the hindu nationalist movement in india or the buddhist nationalist movement in myanmarjority groups will often claim that they are being persecuted, but that then can become a pretext for them persecuting actual minority groups. it's striking that, given the widespread realities of anti-semitism and islamophobia and, as you said, mosques and synagogues tend to be have more attacks than churches per capita. there's no task force on rooting out anti-semitism and islamophobia. instead, this is enshrining christian privilege in our society. >> okay, so in this context, then, how donald trump might use the sense of persecution, possibly to persecute others? what are you worried about most here? >> well, i'm especially worried about the federal government going after people that are perceived to have anti-christian bias. it's striking that this is being led out of the department of justice. i am worried that they are going to encourage christians to think that they are persecuted, to encourage christians who might feel that they are being unfairly treated, even though, again,

aid in the nation of myanmar. a 71 year old refugee who was residing in a thai displacement camp has reportedly died after her oxygen supply was cut off after the usaid hospital, where she received her oxygen treatments closed due to the withdrawal of u.s. foreign aid. this whole christian nation thing is working out just great. the upheaval is unfolding here at home, too, but not without signs of resistance. check out this sign unfurled by an artist in dc. ellen is stealing your data. the message is getting across. shares of tesla have had a tough run since trump's inauguration, with the stock falling 13% since late january, according to barron's, as customers look elsewhere for their electric vehicles. not that elon is hurting, actually. far from it. the lever is reporting that he just nabbed a lucrative new spacex contract as musk's doge. or as rachel maddow likes to say, doggy is reportedly canceling federal education contracts in the name of frugality. his rocket company, spacex, this week cemented an updated

. >> at this hospital in thailand, refugees from war torn myanmar say services at their refugee camp came to a sudden stop after the u.s. froze aid to the region. >> we don't have money to buy medicines. we will all die if we have no medicine at the camp. >> part of the fallout worldwide of president trump's decision to gut the u.s. agency for international development, usaid, the agency that provides food and other humanitarian assistance to millions around the world. >> the president. >> citing alleged waste and fraud unearthed by elon musk's department of government efficiency. >> 60% of the. >> budget goes. >> to humanitarian emergencies. literally to. provide shelter, food. >> and medicine to keep people. >> alive. >> in 2023. usaid says it provided nearly $2 billion in food assistance to more than 45 million people around the world. but tonight, food services and famine stricken places like sudan are already shutting down programs to provide safe drinking water for billions of people in places like the democratic republic of congo. ethiopia and india are. >> under threat. >> an

in thailand, they turned away myanmar war refugees from hospitals in cambodia, they shut down a anti-malarial program people are talking about. propublica did a very good investigation, pointing out that around 130,000 children in africa may now be at risk of hiv being born with hiv because their mothers have been cut off from hiv drugs. under george w bush's pepfar program. that's all been shuttered by marco rubio and donald trump. it should be one of the biggest stories in america, if not the world. people are going to die because of what donald trump and musk and rubio have been doing in recent weeks. and also, if you don't have any moral concerns for these people dying again, to go back to ravi's point, your point, what does it say for america's reputation in the world? one of the few good things we have on the international stage was our foreign aid program. >> in fact, i heard from a canadian official, ravi, who said, if this moves forward, whatever happens, whatever comes of what looks like a renegotiation of our trade agreements with with mexico and canada, whether you think it will b

but that said, if you tried to open up a business or do business in, say, myanmar today, i can guarantee you 100% they're going to ask you for a bribe, period. hard stop. so you decide we're either going to be in that country and get the minerals to make this or we're not. it's a complicated story. >> yeah. it's not easy. >> yeah guys appreciate it michelle caruso-cabrera actually stick around eamon thank you as well eamon javers. >> all right. so let's kind of pivot. but stay on the topic of your money because there's a huge debate slash fight going on around washington dc right now. and it has to do with how your tax dollars are being spent. because an important thing i mean, lots of important things are said on cnbc. but this was really important yesterday and i think you might have missed it. okay. in the 11:00 eastern time hour, the ceo of easterly government properties said this about government spending on buildings. >> now there's. >> a fourth lab. >> that's going to be built, built. in denver. and the government has said that they want to build it and own it themselves. well tha

finally, there's a sad incident, 71-year-old she was able to survive and flee from myanmar to thailand. she was in a camp with over 10,000 people. they cut off the money and they cut off her oxygen and she died and no future waiver is going to bring her back to life. mr. chairman, i ask that this committee take a minute of silence to remember pay kow lo. >> the gentleman's time expired and point out that pepfar treatment hiv treatment of pepfar programs have been authorized for $500 million and other appropriations as well, just in case you were not aware. ... you have delivered to the people they were being slaughtered. legitimate aid was diverted from the needed earthquake recovery that occurred in syria. fortunately, i saw that is now removed. he is in hiding of course in the appropriate location, moscow, with war criminal. another example is the tragic example dictator diversion that is in tunisia. is now been turned into a full-blown dictatorship by saying. while they rightfully suspended a usaid sent $30 million to cover unclear programs allow the dictator has corrupted the econo

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