As we reported last month, "prestigious" journal The Lancet published a study that claimed 14 million people would die due to U.S. cuts to foreign aid. Back at the end of May, U2 vocalist Bono told Joe Rogan that 300,000 people had already died due to USAID cuts.
NBC News is still on the doom and gloom beat and is taking a look at Liberia, where nearly 3 percent of the gross national income is U.S. aid. Is it just us, or does that sound like a lot? How about U.S. aid making up a whopping 48 percent of Liberia's health system budget?
NBC News reports:
Five months ago, Roseline Phay, a 32-year-old farmer from the West African nation of Liberia, set off on a quest to find contraceptives.
Phay and her partner have two daughters, and they barely make ends meet. Determined not to have more children, she went to a health worker in her village, but contraception pills, implants and condoms had run out. Phay trekked for hours on red clay roads to the nearest clinic, but they had no contraceptives either.
She did not know it, but her mission was doomed from the beginning. Just weeks before, U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly suspended most foreign aid through the U.S. Agency for International Development, which paid for medications in Liberia’s public clinics.
Tenacious and outspoken, Phay repeated the trip four times. Then she got pregnant.
“I’m suffering,” she said, with daughter Pauline crying in her arms. “I have this little child on my back, and the other child in my stomach is suffering.” She must continue farming throughout her pregnancy, she said, or “I will not eat.”
Determined not to have more children, Roseline Phay and her partner got pregnant. NBC News doesn't go into the details of how that happened when they were so determined.
Vice President J.D. Vance recently said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio estimated that 12 cents of every dollar of humanitarian aid was actually making it to the intended recipients. Rubio said that 88 cents of every dollar was actually being collected by middlemen, such as NGOs.
It's time to hold another massive "Live Aid" concert for Liberia.
If the U.S. has been sending Liberia who knows how many millions of dollars worth of contraceptives, why is there an overpopulation problem? Back in January, White House Press Secretary said that DOGE had found that $50 million in taxpayer dollars went to fund condoms in Gaza. We're paying the Third World not to reproduce, and the money's obviously being wasted.