King Don’s destruction of the U.S. Agency for International Aid included slashing support for refugee camps in Bangladesh that shelter 600,000 Rohingya children. UNICEF has had to close 2,800 schools, causing an increase in forced marriages, child trafficking, and other suffering:
When the schools shut down, hundreds of underage girls — some as young as 14 — were married off, says Showkutara, executive director of the Rohingya Women Association for Education and Development. Her network of contacts across the camps have also reported an increase in kidnapping and trafficking, as well as a huge surge in the prostitution of girls as young as 12 since the aid cuts.
…The funding cuts’ pain goes beyond the school closures. Skills development programs that kept thousands of children occupied were also halted. Healthcare, nutrition and sanitation services have been reduced. In camps crawling with scabies and other diseases, the results of the reductions are clear on the children’s scrawny bodies. Lesions line their slender limbs. The wet, rattling coughs of babies fill the fetid air. Atop a muddy hill, clusters of kids scratch ferociously at their heads, while a 4-year-old stoically plucks nits from her friend’s scalp.
Bangladesh has barred the Rohingya from leaving the camps to find work, so they are reliant upon humanitarian aid to survive. But the U.N.’s World Food Program, which had counted the U.S. as its largest donor, says it only has enough funds to continue providing food rations through March [Kristen Gelineau, “Trafficked, Exploited, Married Off: Rohingya Children’s Lives Crushed by Foreign Aid Cuts,” AP, 2025.12.17].
The $572.5 million we spent helping Bangladesh in Fiscal Year 2024 was 0.0084% of the $6.8 trillion in total federal spending. Out of every $100,000 we spent, that’s $8.40. Trump and Musk cut support for Bangladesh in FY 2025 by $387.8 million. That’s about half the cost of a new B-21 Raider, or about a quarter of what we’ll spend upgrading Ellsworth Air Force Base to land those bombers. King Don burns up the equivalent of our $387.8 million in “savings” from Bangladesh every 22 days in his war on Venezuela.
And thousands of children whom America was protecting last year are now being exploited, sickened, starved, and killed.
The cruelty is the point according to Trump’s own chief of staff.
Donnie doesn’t care. He’s a white supremacist. He’s embraced the worst of the worst. He won’t save those little girls from their fate as he sees it.
He’s mad too. Last night he displayed his idiocy for the nation. Why even bother with facts. He’s quite simply a lying con man who’s a murderer, a rapist, a felon, need I go on? Prove me wrong!