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USAID officially closes, attracting condemnation from Obama and Bush

 
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has officially closed its doors after President Donald Trump gradually dismantled the agency over its alleged wasteful spending. 
 
More than 80% of the agency's programmes were cancelled as of March, and on Tuesday the remainder were formally absorbed by the State Department. 
 
The shuttering of USAID - which administered aid for the US government, the world's largest such provider - has been newly criticised by former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush. 
 
According to a warning published by researchers in the Lancet medical journal, these aid cuts would cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030.


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