Re:Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record...
by brewdad on Sunday August 16, 2026 @06:38PM
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Does that program still exist in the way we expect it to or has it been DOGE’d like the USAID program?
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Re:Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record...
by culi on Sunday August 16, 2026 @10:49PM
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It was cut for Yemen, the Congo, Niger, Chad, Mali, Nigeria, and Madagascar. Ultimately, USAID is massive vehicle for subsidizing US agriculture so a lot of cuts related to that got restored. It's also a massive benefit to the competitiveness of US agriculture because a huge influx of "free" (sorta) foreign food is a great way to bankrupt domestic markets. See Haiti for example: https://publicintegrity.org/accountability/haitian-farmers-u...