The growing Ebola outbreak in the DRC is the predictable result of cruel aid cuts and failed markets that put everyone, including Americans, at risk.

“America First” is Suicidal in the Age of Global Disease Outbreaks

In early 2025, in a move that was “likely unconstitutional,” the Trump administration, via Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development. As a result, over 80 percent of USAID programs—around $60 billion overall—were eliminated. According to the United Nations, the United States was the single largest aid donor in the world and supplied more than 40 percent of the global aid that the agency tracked in 2024. Almost overnight, the bulk of it went away—and now, as news of worsening Ebola outbreaks continues to come out of central Africa, we are beginning to see the consequences.

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