YouTube Screenshot It sounds as if it is hot off the pages of the Babylon Bee yet, amazingly, it is a dead serious Associated Press story. The reason one might think it a Bee satire is the subject matter the AP decided to stress which you can read in the title of their Thursday story by Kristen Gelineau, "Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive."The premise of the  AP story is that because USAID funds were drastically cut last year, the result is that transgender people in Nepal that were paid to conduct HIV outreach to the "marginalized communities" of that country are now being forced to work as street sex workers. Gelineau, in her story supplemented by video, gives the full dramatic overtones to the situation lacking only in background sad organ music:HETAUDA, Nepal (AP) — She paces the side of the darkened highway in central Nepal, just enough light from the trucks roaring past to illuminate her painted face to the men rolling in on rickshaws and motorbikes. She knows that every stranger who pays for her body could end her life. But she also knows their money is the only thing preventing her death.This spot, littered in condom wrappers and fringed by jungle, is familiar to her. Rubi Lama once came here not as a sex worker, but as an aid worker who helped sex workers.For nine years, Lama — who is transgender — had devoted her life to conducting HIV outreach in Nepal’s marginalized communities, including the LGBTQ+ sex workers who wait by this highway each night. But after the United States slashed its foreign aid funding last year, Lama and more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide found themselves out of a job.Somehow Gelineau believes there is only one possible work option remaining for those of the transgender persuasion who were once funded by USAID:In impoverished Nepal, where a conservative culture leaves openly transgender people with few legal job options, the impact on aid workers’ lives was particularly crushing. Starving and scared, Lama and around 100 other LGBTQ+ aid workers left jobless by the funding cuts have turned to sex work to survive, walking the streets alongside the very people they once fought so hard to help.And guess who is the villain of the AP piece who supposedly caused poor Rubi to hustle on the high altitude streets?This is the headquarters for the formerly USAID-funded non-governmental organization called Friends Hetauda, which offered HIV testing, counseling and prevention services to central Nepal’s LGBTQ+ community. All of that ended in January 2025, when U.S.n President Donald Trump froze funding for USAID, once the world’s leading donor of humanitarian assistance. Trump later dissolved the agency after calling it a waste of money, even though the U.S. spent just 1% of its budget on foreign aid.As if to emphasize their villainous portrayal of Orange Man Bad, AP provides this quote from a director of the umbrella organization of the NGOs receiving USAID money: "The Trump administration’s executive order will cause people to die," she says.This is how the Left always reacts to anyone cutting spending. It's going to kill someone. And the AP is here to spread the Left's message.