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The Trump administration cut funds for natural hazards monitoring in Nepal. A year later, disaster struck

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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — In January 2025, the Trump administration cut off funding for a long-running natural hazards program that aimed to identify and monitor landslide hotspots in Nepal. Just over a year later, more than 1,100 people perished when a huge glacier and rock landslide high in …

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  1. ABC 17 Mid-Missouri

    The Trump administration cut funds for natural hazards monitoring in Nepal. A year later, disaster struck (opens ABC 17 Mid-Missouri)

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    By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — In January 2025, the Trump administration cut off funding for a long-running natural hazards program that aimed to identify and monitor landslide hotspots in Nepal. Just over a year later, more than 1,100 people perished when a huge glacier and rock landslide high in …

  2. Conservative Review

    CNN: Trump Cut Funding That Would Not Have Stopped Nepal Flood. Here’s Why It’s Still His Fault (opens Conservative Review)

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    There is zero link between the deadly flood and Trump. But Freedman nonetheless tries to find a way to link the stories.

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