The human costs of cuts to Foreign Aid are expected to be staggering, generating enormous human suffering:

-- 18 million additional cases of malaria per year, and as many as 166,000 additional deaths;

-- 200,000 children paralyzed with polio annually, and hundreds of millions of infections;

-- a 28 to 32 percent increase in tuberculosis globally;

-- one million children not treated for severe acute malnutrition, which is often fatal, each year;

-- more than 28,000 new cases of such infectious diseases as Ebola and Marburg every year;

-- more than 11 million newborns will not get critical postnatal care.

Many of the drug-resistant tuberculosis victims will end up in the United States for treatment at a cost of more than $154,000 per person.

Of course, what Musk and Trump are doing is also illegal: the Constitution gives Congress the power to create or remove agencies and authorize spending, not the president or his co-president.

The GOP: the party of death, on steroids.

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