1. United States
2. N.C.
3. Letter

I’m writing to ask you to oppose the dismantling of USAID and the cutting of its staff. Cutting funding will cause many to die and accelerate the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis, all to save less than 1% of our county’s budget. Stopping TB treatment before it’s completed is known to cause drug-resistant TB, making treatment more difficult and expensive. When this happens on a large scale, and these cuts are estimated to result in a 28-32% increase in tb cases globally, the resistance can spread around the world, threatening people from the US to Nigeria. These cuts could also cause a “superbug” to develop that is resistant to all our current medications.