Dr ATUL GAWANDE:
Well, here are some things.
The number one is that each administration will carry out a top and bottom review of the expenses. But you don’t need a break to do it. And, in fact, it’s extremely disruptive.
The – and you see the dismantling of major functions in the American agency for international development. It is therefore not only a question of politics and whether these programs are set in one way or in a way. It is a – USAID is the corner – a cornerstone of national security.
These are networks of hundreds of thousands of people supported by prices and subsidies working on behalf of the United States in cooperation with other countries in the fields of mutual interest. It’s our soft power. They do work such as agriculture progress, advance markets and development, as well as economic and health development.
Thus, the programs that eliminate HIV, the cessation of tuberculosis in the world, the cessation of malaria, so that this does not affect us and improves the world as a whole, that is to say- A set of work works, not a kind of awakened ideology. The United States was – had an American century of innovation in health and public health that led the world, advanced and doubled human life expectancy.
And this work, putting him aside, closing him, now seeing that there have been layoffs and layoffs, more than 1,000 employees were sent home, many of them were dismissed at Course of the last 48 hours, this process is still underway and is a major concern.