The State Department says it has reviewed over 6,000 of USAID’s foreign assistance grants, and only 500 of them will continue, NPR’s Fatma Tanis tells Up First. The programs being kept include food and lifesaving assistance for HIV, TB and malaria. A humanitarian official told Tanis that “this is a global health massacre.” Aid groups and advocates have raised alarms that cuts to USAID’s programs would lead to loss of life — like in Sudan, where over 1,000 kitchens supported by the agency have closed. MORE