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Usaid.gov
- basementcat 2y agoFor context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_Inter...
- iJohnDoe 2y agoThank you.
- osrec 2y agoIs the fact that it's down implying something?
- jmclnx 2y agoIt seems so, see: https://web.archive.org/web/20241218234652/https://www.usaid.gov/ https://web.archive.org/web/20241218234652/https://www.usaid... Looks like a site for Aid for international development. One of the items Trump wants to eliminate.
- perlpimp 2y ago2SLGBTQIA+ advancement in various countries to detriment of all else and sponsoring of any elected government that do not confer their electorate with USAID and State department.
- jmclnx 2y agoBad cert the you get "You see this page because there is no Web site at this address."
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- Arubis 2y agoContext: NYT, "End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say" https://archive.is/qzRxa https://archive.is/qzRxa
- nico 2y agoThis was 4th on the front page and all of a sudden it just disappeared What happened?
- basementcat 2y agoA subset of HN users appear to not want this issue to be discussed on this platform.
- pvg 2y agoThere are two big ongoing discussions about the new administration's changes to government websites right now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42905937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42905937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881367
- Arubis 2y agoManual moderation? It's not flagged.
- Arubis 2y agoWell. Now it's flagged.
- postepowanieadm 2y agoLink is dead, automoderation maybe?
- amalcon 2y agoFor those curious: This was most likely posted because it is gone. I don't think USAID's disappearance is a particularly good HN topic, but it's liable to just confuse people like this. If this is a discussion we want to have, maybe a news article about it would be better? E.g. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/usaid-website-offline-freeze/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/usaid-website-offlin... -- which I haven't really read either, but it is probably less confusing.
- Arubis 2y agoAlmost certainly posted for its sudden absence, yes. USAID is not a small deal; they're an omnipresent entity in much of the developing world.
- basementcat 2y agoThe "omniprescence" may not be the case going forward. Hopefully colleagues in Russia, China, EU, Japan and other countries can step up.
- Arubis 2y agoI have mixed feelings on this one. I hope folks in need of aid get it; I am concerned about a world in which soft power is ceded to Russia and China.
- basementcat 2y agoWhat are your concerns? My understanding is an electoral majority of Americans believe that this soft power is in better hands if it is ceded to other nations such as Russia and China and/or others.
- Arubis 2y agoThat sort of blanket statement is hard to work with; it seems unlikely to me personally that this was top-of-mind for most voters. That said: my own objection is primarily moral—I believe humans should help other humans without exception, _especially_ those most in need, and would strongly prefer that be embedded into the society in which we live. If you're going to argue that many folks that voted for the current administration would differ in their preferences around that, you're probably right. The more cross-cutting argument is that Trump campaigned on getting the US out of expensive wars and preventing getting into forever wars, primarily talking about the monetary cost. Cutting off the US's soft power increases the chances of ending up in a hot war for very little actual savings—the total amount of foreign aid the US spends is below 1% of the budget.
- craniumslows 2y agoThrough this I learned CISAs website runs on Drupal and that was much cooler to me than I thought it would be. thought process (hmmm what other gov do I know? oh I'll curl up cisa. oh it uses drupal thats neat.)
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- hindsightbias 2y agoWell there goes a front for covert ops. Bush & Obama used it to fund anti-Castro media.
- throw0101a 2y agoSee also perhaps "USAID security leaders on leave after trying to keep Musk’s DOGE from classified info, officials say": > WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s government-inspection teams, a current and a former U.S. official told The Associated Press on Sunday. > Members of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, eventually did gain access Saturday to the aid agency’s classified information, which includes intelligence reports, the former official said. > Musk’s DOGE crew lacked high-enough security clearance to access that information, so the two USAID security officials — John Vorhees and deputy Brian McGill — were legally obligated to deny access. * https://apnews.com/article/doge-musk-trump-classified-information-usaid-security-35101dee28a766e0d9705e0d47958611 https://apnews.com/article/doge-musk-trump-classified-inform... * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910635 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910635 I seem to remember some hullabaloo about Clinton not treating (potentially) classified e-mails appropriately.
- rich_sasha 2y agoIt gives me absolutely no joy to say it, but I am concerned the top people in Trumpocracy, notably Trump and Musk, might end up shot. They are pissing off so many people, so quickly, so heavy-handedly, and in a country literally stuffed with guns. One guy whose business exports are killed by retaliatory tariffs, or another whose medical care gets shut down, or someone with family in a developing country whose life ends up ruined by the US defaulting on its aid commitments. And it's barely two weeks in. And yes, I know it's mostly the MAGA crowd who has guns, but they are half the country, and Trump doesn't seem to mind shooting with his eyes shut. Well, you're going to hit quite a few of your own people if you do that. Populist sentiment seems to run out when you hit people where it hurts - their wallet. To be clear, the thought gives me no joy. Already being a US president is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, and this would only set an awful precedent for whoever follows.
- skissane 2y agoI doubt anything will happen to Trump while in office: the Secret Service will move heaven and earth to prevent another presidential assassination. They've already got enough egg on their face from the near-misses during Trump's campaign, but the resources they dedicate to protecting candidates and former Presidents is a mere fraction of what they devote to the President while in office. A presidential assassination would utterly destroy what remains of the Secret Service's already tarnished credibility, and even seriously risk triggering a second Civil War. I don't believe Musk has Secret Service protection, but as the richest man in the world, his private security budget is effectively unlimited.
- rich_sasha 2y agoYeah, maybe not Trump or Musk, but there's a lot of them.al Also, you only need one bullet to go through, and Trump doesn't strike me like the guy who does everything Secret Service tells him to do.