by Anna Maria Barry-Jester | Dec 23, 2025 | Kenya, low birth weight, malnutrition, News, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), State Department, Trump Administration, USAID, World Food Program
In August, I traveled to Kakuma, Kenya, to try to understand what happened when the U.S. cut off food to the world’s third-largest refugee camp. Soon after President Donald Trump froze foreign aid on his first day in office, my colleague Brett Murphy and I began hearing from government experts. We learned that despite explicit promises from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that food and other…
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by Brett Murphy | Dec 17, 2025 | food aid, Hunger, Kenya, malnutrition, News, refugee camps, Trump Administration, USAID, World Food Program
On July 18, a mild, overcast night in Nairobi, Kenya, a team of President Donald Trump’s top foreign aid advisers ducked into a meeting room at the Tribe Hotel, their luxury accommodations in the city’s diplomatic quarter, for a private dinner. The visitors from Washington included Marcus Thornton, a former Border Patrol agent known for a series of public lawsuits against the Biden…
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