Hank: USAID funding may stay interrupted for a long time (2025)
prediction · status: came true · last event: came true (2025-10-28) · owner: Hank
In February 2025 Hank said USAID's interrupted funding may stay that way for a long time.
Told alongside: John's family's 'biggest bet' against tuberculosis, announced on Thursday (2024)
About: United States Agency for International Development
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-14 | predicted | Hank says USAID's funding may stay interrupted for a long time. (hedged) | Let's Do a Good 00:00:16 |
| 2025-10-28 | came true | John says USAID abandoned its commitment to fund part of the project, but PIH, Sarah and John stayed committed because the Philippine government did. | Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway 00:01:27 |
What is said about it
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — Hank says Save the Children and Partners In Health both now have more work to do and less money to do it with. — 00:00:29
- 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — Hank says that for those able to give there are many good reasons to give now, since everything these organizations do is vitally important. — 00:00:29
- 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — Hank lists the organizations' work: treating children for malnutrition, HIV treatment, supporting kids in war zones, reducing maternal and infant mortality, responding to disease outbreaks. — 00:00:44
- 2025-02-14 · Let's Do a Good — Hank says he is proud that the community supports these people and their work. — 00:00:44
- 2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John says an ultra-portable x-ray gives free screening with immediate AI-assisted results; a positive x-ray leads to a GeneXpert test with a TB answer within a day. — 00:01:56
- 2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John says he ate a truly extraordinary mango there, by far the greatest of his life. (playful) — 00:01:56
- 2025-10-28 · Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway — John met many health care workers who read his books and did a small signing for some TB champions, regretting he had no time for a proper signing. — 00:01:56