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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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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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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,

. >> 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

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