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- 1:43Speaker 2: We'll be quick on this, fifteen minutes or less, probably,
- 1:46Speaker 2: but we just want to dive in and really today's topic,
- 1:48Speaker 2: we're talking about the Trump administrations move recently where they
- 1:53Speaker 2: were freezing They basically suspended all foreign aid funding that
- 1:57Speaker 2: was going out. It's a pretty small chunk of overall
- 2:00Speaker 2: US economic activity proportional to our overall GDP, but it
- 2:05Speaker 2: is a program that is pretty global that a lot
- 2:08Speaker 2: of people didn't necessarily know about and it did a
- 2:11Speaker 2: lot of things, and you maybe didn't know what all of.
- 2:14Speaker 1: Those things were.
- 2:15Speaker 2: And we're not going to necessarily impact all of the
- 2:17Speaker 2: things that it did, but suffice it to say so,
- 2:19Speaker 2: this is the United States Agency for International Development or USAID.
- 2:24Speaker 2: I've also heard people pronounce us AID. This is a
- 2:28Speaker 2: very large, complex network of people doing a lot of things.
- 2:32Speaker 2: It has a operating budget of about forty billion dollars,
- 2:35Speaker 2: which is a lot, but I mean, like I said,
- 2:37Speaker 2: pretty small fraction of what the government spends on many
- 2:40Speaker 2: other things. In particular, I mean just you know, look
- 2:44Speaker 2: at our military for example. That number is laughably small
- 2:48Speaker 2: relative to that. But anyway, this budget supports vital initiatives
- 2:52Speaker 2: around the world, such as food aid, disaster relief, and
- 2:54Speaker 2: health programs, and over one hundred different countries, making those
- 2:58Speaker 2: countries our allies and many cases and supporting programs where
- 3:02Speaker 2: we are the only people who have come to them
- 3:04Speaker 2: for support and therefore they support us right back.
- 3:07Speaker 3: So ultimately, what this has done, freezing this aid has
- 3:11Speaker 3: has stopped a lot of basically just a lot of
- 3:13Speaker 3: market processes, a lot of shipments, a lot of medical aid,
- 3:17Speaker 3: a lot of different things. And actually one of the
- 3:19Speaker 3: biggest impacts of this decision has put the US, like
- 3:23Speaker 3: specifically US businesses and American farms under substantial strain. If
- 3:28Speaker 3: not in such a precarious position that they are going
- 3:30Speaker 3: to start having to cut jobs, they're going to maybe
- 3:33Speaker 3: have to shut down.
- 3:34Speaker 4: There's going to.
- 3:35Speaker 3: Be food waste as a result of the fact that
- 3:37Speaker 3: some of the shipments that they have are not going out.
- 3:40Speaker 3: There are a lot of things that are happening. As
- 3:42Speaker 3: a matter of fact, American farmers are some of the
- 3:45Speaker 3: most affected, and right now, as it stands, about three
- 3:47Speaker 3: hundred and forty million dollars worth of food aid, specifically
- 3:51Speaker 3: in shipments including are crops like weed and soybeans. It's
- 3:54Speaker 3: all halted. So it's just sitting somewhere in a container,
- 3:58Speaker 3: on a ship, on a train side, somewhere like that,
- 4:00Speaker 3: in trucks and warehouses. And it doesn't just impact the
- 4:04Speaker 3: livelihood of those American farmers that are already struggling economically.
- 4:08Speaker 3: I don't know if y'all know this, but American farmers
- 4:10Speaker 3: have a real it's really hard, it's really really hard,
- 4:13Speaker 3: a tough job. They've got a tough job, and so
- 4:18Speaker 3: this has already kind of resulted in some strains on
- 4:20Speaker 3: those farms, but it also threatens food security and food
- 4:24Speaker 3: security not just on a US level, but on a
- 4:27Speaker 3: global level. There are a lot of countries that rely
- 4:31Speaker 3: on American food sources, just like we import food sources
- 4:34Speaker 3: from other places. We rely on this kind of give
- 4:37Speaker 3: and take back and forth, this mutual and this mutual
- 4:40Speaker 3: engagement and agriculture for us to work. And basically, what
- 4:44Speaker 3: the White House is saying is that these cuts, cutting
- 4:47Speaker 3: these programs that send food to foreign aid and stuff
- 4:51Speaker 3: like that will actually align with the idea of putting
- 4:54Speaker 3: America first by focusing on these programs that directly benefit
- 4:57Speaker 3: the United States.
- 4:58Speaker 4: Now, there's a.
- 4:59Speaker 3: Lot to unpack inside of that, but what I'm saying
- 5:02Speaker 3: is like, this is hugely detrimental.
- 5:05Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 5:05Speaker 2: Yeah, They're like, we're gonna gut the farmer's contracts. We're
- 5:09Speaker 2: gonna we're gonna piss away three hundred and forty million
- 5:12Speaker 2: dollars worth of contracts for them and then tell them
- 5:15Speaker 2: it's for their own good.
- 5:16Speaker 1: That's that's sort of what that is saying.
- 5:18Speaker 2: Yeah, is like, we're putting you first by canceling your
- 5:22Speaker 2: very very lucrative international shipment contracts that you have and
- 5:26Speaker 2: you can just sit on that waste and you Right,
- 5:29Speaker 2: that's basically what the Trump administration is saying. I think
- 5:32Speaker 2: to be fair, as we've talked about, like many of
- 5:34Speaker 2: these people did vote for this, so they're kind of
- 5:36Speaker 2: getting what they asked for, I guess, but it's not
- 5:40Speaker 2: all of them did, and it's not And it sucks
- 5:42Speaker 2: because it's not just it's again, it's not even just
- 5:46Speaker 2: the farmers. Like this threatens United States food security and
- 5:50Speaker 2: international food security, and it's extremely wasteful, and it completely.
- 5:55Speaker 1: Guts a major sector of our economy.
- 5:57Speaker 2: We're gonna be losing out millions and millions of that
- 6:00Speaker 2: would otherwise be coming into our economy through these programs
- 6:04Speaker 2: and these some of these farms may shut down completely.
- 6:07Speaker 2: Like you can't just lose three hundred and forty million
- 6:09Speaker 2: dollars as a business. And granted it's not all going
- 6:11Speaker 2: to one farm, but I mean, you can't just lose
- 6:13Speaker 2: millions of dollars worth of business at the snap of
- 6:16Speaker 2: someone's fingers and then walk away being like, yeah, we're fine,
- 6:19Speaker 2: that's yeah, right, that was well within our operating budget
- 6:23Speaker 2: of like what we could lose is like four million
- 6:25Speaker 2: dollars or something like that. No, that will completely end
- 6:28Speaker 2: some farms in the United States. So that's obviously pretty serious.
- 6:33Speaker 2: Even if they hadn't canceled these contracts, though, they have
- 6:39Speaker 2: shut down so much of the staffing of the USAID
- 6:43Speaker 2: program that like, and the repatriating the overseas staff, that
- 6:47Speaker 2: it's going to have detrimental effects on both our economy
- 6:51Speaker 2: and entire global aid networks, even the ones where like
- 6:55Speaker 2: we were only a participating member where other people were helping, Like,
- 6:59Speaker 2: that's going to have an impact there. This is pretty
- 7:02Speaker 2: far reaching, and this has been a bipartisan project for
- 7:06Speaker 2: decades now like that that they've been supporting this, So
- 7:10Speaker 2: it's a surprising move that nobody asked for that's going
- 7:13Speaker 2: to do no good.
- 7:14Speaker 3: I think one thing that's like to contextualize us a
- 7:16Speaker 3: little bit further too. It's really important because people You'll
- 7:20Speaker 3: hear people argue, and I could hear kind of the
- 7:22Speaker 3: counter argument to like, Okay, well we should shut it down.
- 7:24Speaker 3: We shouldn't be sending aid to other countries because we
- 7:27Speaker 3: should be able to produce our own stuf. Blah blah
- 7:29Speaker 3: blah blahlah. I've heard I've heard that more than once.
- 7:31Speaker 3: As far as like manufacturing goods and stuff like this,
- 7:33Speaker 3: What people don't understand is that so many of the
- 7:37Speaker 3: the materials that we need do not naturally exist in
- 7:41Speaker 3: the United States. Yeah, so sometimes we have to outsource materials.
- 7:46Speaker 3: We have to reach out to countries that have these
- 7:49Speaker 3: resources that are required to build things that we need,
- 7:52Speaker 3: and vice versa. So this effectively shuts down a lot
- 7:56Speaker 3: of that, if not all of that. It cuts down
- 7:58Speaker 3: those contracts that allows to cooperate with different countries to
- 8:02Speaker 3: access materials to help build things like computers, to help.
- 8:05Speaker 4: Build things like cars, to help build things like.
- 8:07Speaker 3: Or to help like actually source materials that are beyond
- 8:11Speaker 3: just wheat and corn, you know, like we have other
- 8:14Speaker 3: things that we get from other.
- 8:15Speaker 4: Countries in these situations.
- 8:17Speaker 3: And now we're basically just effectively saying no, I think
- 8:20Speaker 3: we're good for you, and then we're gonna deal with
- 8:22Speaker 3: the repercussions of that. So if everybody starts getting scurvy,
- 8:26Speaker 3: you know, it's because we didn't get enough citrus from
- 8:28Speaker 3: the places that we get it from.
- 8:31Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
- 8:34Speaker 2: And you know, I think we'll talk more about this
- 8:36Speaker 2: in a moment, but thinking about like as you said,
- 8:39Speaker 2: if we take away the incentive to buy from other
- 8:44Speaker 2: countries and then they manufacture it here instead, and we
- 8:46Speaker 2: do need to get those raw materials from elsewhere, but
- 8:48Speaker 2: also like then those countries won't want to do business
- 8:51Speaker 2: with us, so shipping it like we have to pay
- 8:54Speaker 2: more to manufacture those internally. That means that the customers
- 8:58Speaker 2: for those people who pay for that product, like, yes,
- 9:01Speaker 2: the people who are manufacturing that product have more work,
- 9:04Speaker 2: but fewer customers. They can't afford them here in the
- 9:06Speaker 2: United States. Countries outside of the United States don't want
- 9:09Speaker 2: to work for it and can't necessarily afford to tariffs
- 9:12Speaker 2: that their country is retro with the retribution the sort
- 9:16Speaker 2: of reactive tariffs that our country is putting on their
- 9:19Speaker 2: imported goods. And so it becomes this issue where it's like,
- 9:23Speaker 2: sure that moves all the manufacturing here and then it
- 9:26Speaker 2: has nowhere to go, and so like it's a temporary
- 9:29Speaker 2: boost that will.
- 9:30Speaker 1: Result in a collapse again.
- 9:32Speaker 2: So it's just a total misunderstanding of how these systems align. Nevertheless,
- 9:37Speaker 2: we at least get people to pay us for ads temporarily.
- 9:48Speaker 2: There's another note on the USAID and there's a lot
- 9:50Speaker 2: more to talk about on here, but this is one
- 9:51Speaker 2: more I just wanted.
- 9:52Speaker 1: To bring in.
- 9:53Speaker 2: There is this thing called the President's Emergency Plan for
- 9:56Speaker 2: AIDS Relief or pep FAR, and this is it's a
- 10:00Speaker 2: imports anti retroviral treatment for over twenty million people who
- 10:03Speaker 2: have HIV, largely in Africa, but in elsewhere as well.
- 10:07Speaker 2: It pays for funding here. And the issue with cutting
- 10:11Speaker 2: funding because this is part of the USAID project here
- 10:14Speaker 2: is inside of the overall sort of global us AID thing.
- 10:19Speaker 2: What is happening here is that when you discontinue these treatments,
- 10:24Speaker 2: a couple of things happen.
- 10:26Speaker 1: One is that HIV AIDS is.
- 10:28Speaker 2: Going to kill a lot of people who would have
- 10:30Speaker 2: otherwise had treatment for it. The treatment that they were
- 10:32Speaker 2: receiving made made their viral load so low that they
- 10:36Speaker 2: effectively could not spread it, which means that taking away
- 10:39Speaker 2: that treatment means that they can now spread it, which
- 10:42Speaker 2: means it is much more likely to come back to
- 10:44Speaker 2: the United States.
- 10:45Speaker 1: Diseases do not care about borders. It will make its
- 10:48Speaker 1: way here.
- 10:48Speaker 2: It doesn't matter where it even if we're to block
- 10:51Speaker 2: every flight ever coming back from Africa, it will make
- 10:53Speaker 2: its way here. These things are affect the entire globe,
- 10:58Speaker 2: and so helping to deal with them before what are
- 11:00Speaker 2: they spread as important. And another thing that happens here
- 11:03Speaker 2: is if you fail to provide adequate treatment, what you
- 11:06Speaker 2: actually do is you create more treatment resistant strains of
- 11:10Speaker 2: the virus. So not only does it become more likely
- 11:13Speaker 2: to spread, it becomes harder to treat. This is a colossal,
- 11:17Speaker 2: colossal policy failure that is going to kill a lot
- 11:20Speaker 2: of people and result in a much more difficult problem
- 11:23Speaker 2: to solve.
- 11:24Speaker 3: Right, And so what has happened here is like it's
- 11:27Speaker 3: not just that it's leaving people without treatment, it's also
- 11:30Speaker 3: leaving people without ongoing research. So yeah, at this point
- 11:33Speaker 3: in time, the research around this has effectively halted. Same
- 11:36Speaker 3: thing with cancer treatment, same thing with a lot of
- 11:39Speaker 3: other diseases that we are actively trying to fight that
- 11:42Speaker 3: are killing millions of people around the world. Now, all
- 11:44Speaker 3: of a sudden, we have decided to pull out all
- 11:46Speaker 3: of that funding. And what are we left with Now
- 11:49Speaker 3: We're left with clinics that don't have enough resources to
- 11:51Speaker 3: support the people that need it. We are now stopping
- 11:55Speaker 3: the effective advancement of science and knowledge around better ways
- 11:59Speaker 3: to treat situations like HIV AIDS treat cancer and all
- 12:04Speaker 3: these these these things that are really important for people.
- 12:07Speaker 3: Like these types of things are impacting so many people,
- 12:11Speaker 3: and we've effectively said, you know what, we don't need
- 12:13Speaker 3: to do any of that. And I think it's really
- 12:15Speaker 3: important to to keep that in mind when you know,
- 12:18Speaker 3: when we start talking about cutting this type of thing,
- 12:20Speaker 3: it's like the United States is effectively looking at an
- 12:25Speaker 3: isolationist view of how to go about this. They're they're
- 12:28Speaker 3: trying to go through this isolationist nation first view and
- 12:32Speaker 3: and that's just not how like the world has evolved
- 12:35Speaker 3: well beyond that. Yeah, Like we are a global economy,
- 12:37Speaker 3: we are a global network.
- 12:38Speaker 4: We are a.
- 12:39Speaker 3: Global system that operates with one hand scratching the other's back,
- 12:44Speaker 3: like and vice versa. Like we're like one hand washes
- 12:46Speaker 3: the other. That's what the world is like right now.
- 12:49Speaker 3: And an isolationist community in the United States cannot, at
- 12:52Speaker 3: least in the in the world, I should say, cannot
- 12:54Speaker 3: exist effectively the way that it will that they have
- 12:58Speaker 3: that we have built. This community, like the United States
- 13:00Speaker 3: will not survive an isolationist view because once we cut
- 13:04Speaker 3: out all those resources, once we cut out all those allies.
- 13:07Speaker 3: Once we cut out all those things that we're trying
- 13:08Speaker 3: to cut out, we will be left very alone.
- 13:11Speaker 4: We will be weakened.
- 13:12Speaker 3: We will no longer be the world power that the
- 13:14Speaker 3: United States thinks it is, and effectively, our quality of
- 13:17Speaker 3: life in the United States will diminish, as well as
- 13:19Speaker 3: the quality of life around the globe.
- 13:21Speaker 4: Like there is there.
- 13:22Speaker 3: We have a large impact globally that I think people
- 13:25Speaker 3: don't realize when when we start cutting these programs.
- 13:28Speaker 2: Yes, very much so, and I think there's some un
- 13:32Speaker 2: appreciated outcomes of that. But do you need to fact
- 13:35Speaker 2: check myself really quick? I said that PEPFAR was a
- 13:38Speaker 2: part of USAID. It's not what it is a part
- 13:41Speaker 2: of it is. It's an international US funded program. It's
- 13:45Speaker 2: not actually part of the USAID specific funding stream. So
- 13:48Speaker 2: for people who heard that, I'm sure, I apologize, but
- 13:51Speaker 2: I had to double check that because I was like, actually,
- 13:52Speaker 2: these these have totally different names. I'm like, I do
- 13:55Speaker 2: think that I heard that they were separate, so I
- 13:56Speaker 2: needed to double check my source on that. And it
- 13:58Speaker 2: even says right in my notes here funded program, not
- 14:01Speaker 2: that it's the USAID.
- 14:02Speaker 1: So I just misspoke there.
- 14:04Speaker 2: Anyway, just as you were saying, like, what has happened
- 14:06Speaker 2: is our funding of all those countries has made them
- 14:09Speaker 2: our ally, which means that we have a relationship where
- 14:13Speaker 2: they support us and we support them.
- 14:15Speaker 1: And yeah, the support that we get back from.
- 14:17Speaker 2: Them isn't necessarily going to be the same as the
- 14:19Speaker 2: support that they get from us all the time. But
- 14:22Speaker 2: like they are in fact our allies, and when they
- 14:25Speaker 2: are no longer our allies, they become our enemies allies.
- 14:29Speaker 2: And so the countries who are the most direct competition
- 14:33Speaker 2: for global dominance and economic power in the world now
- 14:38Speaker 2: are scooping up all these countries quite happily as like, oh,
- 14:42Speaker 2: don't worry about the United States will provide your funding.
- 14:45Speaker 1: Now, why don't you go ahead and enact.
- 14:47Speaker 2: Our policies and advance our agenda and support us and
- 14:50Speaker 2: the things that we're trying to do that are very
- 14:52Speaker 2: different from what the United States interests are. So essentially,
- 14:56Speaker 2: we handed all of our allies over to people who
- 15:00Speaker 2: be our adversaries in our competition and gave them all
- 15:03Speaker 2: our resources by cutting them off from a network where
- 15:06Speaker 2: we again had bipartisan support in supporting one another and
- 15:10Speaker 2: having a broad network of people who were all working
- 15:13Speaker 2: together and supporting each other. So we're just we're making
- 15:17Speaker 2: ourselves extremely weak and extremely vulnerable while simultaneously making our
- 15:22Speaker 2: competition extremely.
- 15:24Speaker 1: Powerful and extremely resilient.
- 15:26Speaker 2: So I think the outcome of this is going to
- 15:29Speaker 2: be a weekend US economy substantially and weekend US power
- 15:33Speaker 2: and influence on the global stage.
- 15:35Speaker 4: Right.
- 15:36Speaker 3: Also, I think I want to be really clear, that
- 15:38Speaker 3: is not us saying that like the United States should
- 15:40Speaker 3: be number one, Like we're not going out around going
- 15:42Speaker 3: we're number one, we'd number one. But what we do
- 15:45Speaker 3: know is that everybody benefits from working together. Yeah, what
- 15:48Speaker 3: this is effectively doing is it's making it so that
- 15:50Speaker 3: we're taking our ball and going home and nobody else
- 15:53Speaker 3: can play. And so then what's going to happen is
- 15:55Speaker 3: we are going to like the United States will ultimately
- 15:58Speaker 3: suffer as a result of like what when we say weakening,
- 16:02Speaker 3: it's weakening because we won't have any friends, we won't
- 16:04Speaker 3: have any allies, we won't have any any people that
- 16:07Speaker 3: we can work together with to advance the world and
- 16:10Speaker 3: advance like all the things that we are trying to
- 16:12Speaker 3: do with people. Yeah, and that's not to say that
- 16:15Speaker 3: the United States has been perfect in their track record
- 16:17Speaker 3: on working together. We are obviously not. But we're not
- 16:20Speaker 3: saying that the United States should be remain a global
- 16:23Speaker 3: power and like hold that power or try to hold
- 16:25Speaker 3: any sort of throne. What we're saying is that everybody
- 16:28Speaker 3: benefits from us working together.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Yes, exactly.
- 16:31Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like I think what I would advocate is
- 16:33Speaker 2: that we have as many allies as we can. And
- 16:36Speaker 2: what happens when we get rid of those allies is like,
- 16:38Speaker 2: should we need something, they won't be there. They would
- 16:41Speaker 2: have been, but now they won't. We get attacked, We
- 16:44Speaker 2: have no friends. We run out of food, We have
- 16:47Speaker 2: no friends. We run out of medicine, we have no friends.
- 16:50Speaker 2: You know, we want to import something too bad, Like
- 16:53Speaker 2: they don't want to sell, you know, they impoard to us.
- 16:56Speaker 2: They just cut us off. And as you said, like
- 16:58Speaker 2: the point is not the United States rules world. I
- 17:00Speaker 2: don't think that's the solution. But I think what we
- 17:02Speaker 2: want to do is have a lot of allies and
- 17:04Speaker 2: have a lot of people in our global support network
- 17:07Speaker 2: where we're benefiting from one another's support.
- 17:10Speaker 1: Right.
- 17:10Speaker 2: What has happened is those funds have been frozen. What
- 17:13Speaker 2: has happened is those allies are starting to be scooped
- 17:16Speaker 2: up by other powerful countries. And what is likely to
- 17:19Speaker 2: happen in the future is that this is very problematic
- 17:22Speaker 2: for the US economy. Some farms are going to go,
- 17:25Speaker 2: a lot of people are going to die from preventable diseases,
- 17:28Speaker 2: and we will be worse off for it.
- 17:30Speaker 4: Yep, that's yeah, that's where that's where it's headed.
- 17:33Speaker 1: All right, thank you.
- 17:34Speaker 2: I think that's what we have to say about this.
- 17:35Speaker 2: And this has been a little long for a mini
- 17:37Speaker 2: so I think that we can wrap it up. There
- 17:39Speaker 2: is anything you would like to add or anything I
- 17:41Speaker 2: forgot before we sign off?
- 17:42Speaker 4: No, I think I think that's it today, all right.
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