Nicholas Enrich

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Nicholas Enrich, formerly the acting assistant administrator for Global Health at USAID and a civil servant with over two decades of service, stood up against the Trump Administration and DOGE to expose the truth: that Trump’s freeze on foreign humanitarian aid will cost the lives of thousands worldwide. Despite DOGE’s assurances that cuts won’t touch lifesaving assistance, the USAID team responsible for monitoring and responding to global disease threats – including Ebola, Tuberculosis, and Malaria – were dismantled. Critical safeguards to stop the spread of these diseases, like airport disease screenings in Uganda, were cut and disappeared overnight, baring the rest of the world to preventable outbreaks of deadly diseases. 

Soon after Enrich sent his concerns via internal memo to political leadership at USAID the memo was released publicly, and he was placed on administrative leave only 30 minutes later. The devastating details of his memo soon appeared in nearly every major news outlet. 

With the support of Whistleblower Aid, Enrich submitted a disclosure to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel and testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs.