Trump, Myanmar and USAID
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Chinese rescuers have freed six people from the rubble of an earthquake in Myanmar, including a child and a pregnant woman, Chinese state media reported Monday, placing Beijing at the forefront of an ...
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Signs of life were detected in the ruins of a skyscraper in Bangkok on Monday as efforts intensified to find people trapped three days after a massive earthquake in Southeast Asia that killed at leas...
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More than 2,700 people were killed in the 7.7-magnitude quake, with thousands more injured, according to Myanmar’s military junta.
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The effects of Trump administration’s deep cuts in foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department will likely be tested in any response to the first big natural disaster of his second term.
State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said Monday the US has dispatched a disaster relief team to Myanmar days after a major earthquake left over 2,000 dead.
As U.S. experts head to Myanmar to assist in recovery from the Southeast Asia earthquake, teams from China are filling the void.
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The 7.7 magnitude earthquake is the first major disaster to suffer the brunt of Donald Trump's USAID cuts. This will be the first natural disaster to happen after President Donald Trump shut down America's international aid agency with potentially devastating consequences.
The announcement came after the ruling junta issued a rare plea for international aid President Donald Trump on Friday vowed the United States would assist Myanmar after it was hit by a huge earthquake,
President Donald Trump said the U.S. would help Myanmar recover from a deadly earthquake while speaking in the Oval Office on March 28.