Here's the letter body:
The Trump/Musk blocks on congressional spending are unconstitutional.
For Congress to tolerate them negates its constitutional power. Shuttering USAID will cause deaths.
Atul Gawande listed the terminated USAID programs.
Let me be direct: fellow human beings will suffer & die preventable deaths.
Do you want this? To kill people by withholding essential medicines, medicinal care, food, or water?
You own the deaths that will ensue.
USAID programs are paid for by funds you (& Marco Rubio) approved.
Every day you tolerate this interruption, people will die--deaths in childbirth, mutations of t.b.,hunger, disease, starvation. Babies born with preventable AIDS.
You back to your constituency while someone faraway endures suffering you can't imagine because of Congress permitting an unelected fake agency with no official standing to interrupt funds & programs Congress instituted.
Consider:
Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, & treatments –terminated.
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty & sadism
All tuberculosis programs, including Global TB Drug Facility – terminated.
Allsupplies of US-manufactured emergency food packets for starving children on brink of death – terminated.
A contract supporting deadly outbreak prevention, detection, & response, including Ebola & Bird Flu, in 50 countries – terminated.
All U.S.-backed development program[s] in Afghanistan, incl. maternal & child health services & girls education – terminated. (Estimated to cause >1,200 maternal deaths by 2028
Over 1,000 food kitchens in Sudan, a country with almost 25 million people in acute food insecurity – terminated
Services from the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation - just 1 organization - reaching 350,00
0 people on HIV treatment, including nearly 10,000 children & more than 10,000 HIV-positive pregnant women – terminated.
Screening program with the Mexican govt to identify illicit drugs like fentanyl being smuggled at the US border.
This isn't the full list: find the rest by Dr Gawande on BlueSky.
Have I shared enough for you to feel the grief & horror about it that I do?
Ending these programs is cruel, wicked, and evil. Full stop.
On your watch one of the richest human beings ever has messed with computer code to which he should have no legal access to unconstitutionally terminate life-sustaining funding you set up.
There's no time to wait for the courts to fix it. You have tools including impeachment, subpoenas, criminal referrals. Why are you not using them?
Every one of you should have pictures on your door with a list of the humans who die because of Congress's abdication.
Please reply to me in writing or by phone to tell me how you'll prevent these deaths, & stop the unchecked spread of Ebola, mutant TB, malaria.
You're complicit. You can act. Do so.
First sent on February 28 by Mary
