USAID funds programs that work in repressive countries. DOGE required each recipient to provide lots of information including employees in order to review their grants. Although many in risky areas objected, without compliance the review would determine that your grant would be cancelled, so they complied, and then were exposed. Again and again, this admin shows that have no respect for the health and safety of others. ‘Lives Are In Danger' After a Trump Admin Spreadsheet Leak, Sources Say After a flurry of phone calls and messages, State Department officials reported back to their partners with a note of reassurance: Though other information would likely be posted online in the near future, the closely held, highly "sensitive" information on certain grants and nonprofit organizations would be left off the table. The officials promised these groups that that information would stay under lock and key, and the grant recipients would still get their money. A few short days after these assurances were made, two different documents - one was a spreadsheet about State Department grants, the other concerned USAID - were shared with Congress, and they were leaked to several mainstream media outlets and elsewhere. Today, it's easy for just about anyone to find much of this information online. The leaked documents, the sources say, include some of the very same information that multiple nonprofits and international partners had been promised would not be made public. Senior executives and other staff working at these groups were particularly alarmed, for instance, by the inclusion of certain details pertaining to programs and non-governmental organizations operating in China, Russia, Iran, Uganda, Cuba, and elsewhere From Wednesday and well into Thursday, this led to a mad dash among these different groups to work up damage assessments on what had just happened; frantically reach out to an array of staffers and local activists to warn them and to confirm that they were safe and OK; and to game out what they were all prepared to do in worst case scenarios, according to the sources familiar with the situation and the written communications and internal memos reviewed by Rolling Stone. "Please do not share the spreadsheet that was circulating yesterday with terminated awards listed and if possible remove it or ask it to be removed from anywhere you've seen it," reads one message shared in a private USAID chat late this week. "It contains information about partners who are working in unsafe environments with restricted civil society space or terrible LGBTQ laws etc. A few of our friends already had to pull staff on an emergency basis yesterday due to threats and unwanted attention from their governments. Please pass along to anyone you think needs to see this."
what do you think the regimes in authoritarian countries will do when they get the names of the people that have been working to support causes in opposition to the regime?
