How USAID cuts threaten the Agent Orange cleanup and other efforts in Vietnam

Get the Full StoryThe Trump administration s broad cuts to USAID also halted efforts to clear unexploded American munitions and landmines, a rehabilitation program for war victims, and work on a museum exhibit of U.S. efforts to remediate the damage of the Vietnam War.

At a former American air base in southern Vietnam, work abruptly stopped last month on efforts to clean up tons of soil contaminated with deadly dioxin from the military s Agent Orange defoliant.

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