USAID Cuts Affect Agent Orange Cleanup

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Agent Orange cleanup

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Agent Orange cleanup, efforts critical to ties with Vietnam jeopardized by USAID cuts

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Efforts to clean up tons of soil contaminated with deadly dioxin from Agent Orange defoliant halted.

Funding for the Agent Orange cleanup at Bien Hoa Air Base was unfrozen about a week after it was stopped.

It's unclear whether funds are fully flowing or how they'll be disbursed, with no USAID employees left to administer operations.

The cuts risk jeopardizing hard-won diplomatic gains with Vietnam .

Work began in 2020 on a 10-year project funded by USAID and the Department of Defense , with an estimated cost of $430 million overall.

The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi and USAID referred all questions on the war legacy projects to the State Department in Washington .

Vietnam ’s Defense Ministry referred questions to the Foreign Ministry , which did not respond to requests for comment.

“We want that to be part of the story for the hundreds of thousands of visitors to that museum, to show that the United States didn’t just walk away.” ___ Rising reported from Bangkok ..

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