A U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) official wrote in a series of memos that the Trump administration's upheaval of U.S. foreign aid will trigger devastating human costs. The big picture: With lifesaving services blocked,

A senior official with the U.S. Agency for International Development in an email on Sunday warned that the Trump administration's dismantling of the agency will result in unnecessary deaths -- only to email his staff less than 30 minutes later to say that he had been placed on leave.

An executive at USAID, the foreign aid agency in the process of being dismantled, was placed on administrative leave after sending memos criticizing the Trump administration’s cuts, Sam Stein writes Monday at the Bulwark.