Nicole Pasteur
@nicolepasteur
Keep my tweets in the politics/pop culture ven diagram. Alum: @USAID, @RepGregStanton, Arizona @TeamJoe. Wildcat for life.
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09-09-2010 08:16:44
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RM Rep. Gregory Meeks: Yesterday the Trump Admin placed nearly all USAID employees on administrative leave and said it’s firing 1,600 or more of them. A 🧵on how this cruel action is counterproductive to US interests…
Awful news --> Delivery of therapeutic food assistance to nearly 400,000 severely malnourished kids is suddenly in doubt due to Trump-Musk firings at USAID, two manufacturers of the product tell me. "Starving children are waiting," one says. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/191935…
So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
"USAID now is not capable of deploying any kind of disaster response teams, because of the destruction is ongoing." Fmr USAID official, who led the Ebola response under President Obama, joins Brianna Keilar to react to Musk's claims Ebola prevention efforts have been restored
Today we celebrated a milestone years in the making. The Valley Metro Light Rail South Central Extension is officially open! 🚊 I fought hard for this project—as a councilman, as mayor and now in Congress—because I know how transformative it’ll be for South Phoenix. The new 5.5