The aid programs provided by the United States around the world have begun to prepare for the dismissal, closing or suspension of staff.
Allies, including Ukraine, are struggling to save a portion of security funds from 90 days of freezing ordered last week by President Donald Trump. Trump also paused federal subsidies and loans in the United States.
The Trump administration has ordered thousands of humanitarian, development and security programs to suspend foreign aid to determine whether to make money from the United States.
Meanwhile, US officials ordered the program to stop spending immediately. Only emergency food programs and military assistance to Israel and Egyptian allies have been exempted.
Freeze means that Liberia’s school will be prepared this week to dismiss children’s lunch to children. U.S. efforts to support overseas US companies and to oppose China’s influence may be closed. Ukrainian veterans calling for the crisis hotline may receive a immediately recorded message, but there is no promise of callback.
See how foreign financing freeze and the United States aid programs around the world are attacked.
Work on a global scale of support shutdown
The United States is the world’s largest source of foreign aid, but other countries give a large percentage of budgets. We provide four for every 10 donated donated to support humanitarian support.
Hidden workers, local officials and analysts emphasize that it is difficult to grasp the size of freezing.
“We are working on how existing the suspension of this assistance is,” said the Oxfam American President Abbey Maxman, who would have never talked about the effects of freezing following the warning of the Trump administration. He stated that he was one of the assistants.
The Trump administration has placed more than 50 officials in US international development agencies on Monday, as many people have supported organizations for freezing. The USAID actor said he was investigating whether the officials were resisting Trump’s order.
For decades, US policies are that by stabilizing the region and the economy and improving their relationships with their partners, the aid given overseas paid through strengthening national security.
However, many Trump officials and Republican members believe that many foreigners should be used at home or should be saved.
According to Representative Brian Must, the Republican President of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee:
Most US funds for the Ukrainian army are not affected
President Ukraine, Valdimy Zerensky, says that the US freezing will fight the Russian army’s invasion, which does not affect his indispensable support for the U.S. Army. It is almost true.
The only military assistance that the Ministry of State is responsible for, and thus pause is foreign military funds and international military education and training. There are other baskets for UN Peace Maintenance activities and differential programs.
However, most of Ukraine’s military assistance comes from a pentagon. This includes a program from an existing weapon stock and another program called Ukraine Service Support Initiative, which is used to pay for weapon contracts for more than a year.
Neither of the Defense General programs is affected by freezing, but US officials say that there is nothing on the pipeline.
However, a private program that is indispensable for Ukrainian war efforts is from the State Department. There are no exemptions for them. This includes salary support provided by the United States to run the Ukrainian government, despite the damages of the economy.
Democratic Foundation Bradley Bowman said that its support was important. “But if our European allies are reading the US political moment, we think it’s better to move.
I was inevitable for Ukrainian veterans and other programs
The United States sent a stopwork order to the wartime private private program supported in Ukraine.
This includes a veteran hub, a non -profit organization that operates a crisis hotline that calls 1,300 calls a month from a Ukrainian veteran who requires social and psychological support.
This weekend, after ordering a stop work, Ivona Costina, the leader of a non -profit organization, noticed that 31 staff had immediately trained.
“For example, even a two -week warning, it would have been much easier for us if one month was one month,” she said. “We would have managed to secure ourselves this time, but there was no warning.”
A few days before the frozen in the United States, Costina said that a veteran hub received a call from someone trying to hurt himself. The hotline staff sent a text message to the person all night.
“And what we have now is a line that is not functioning, basically there is no answer. It is terrible for us,” she said.
For some people, “death sentence”
In the Zimbabwe country in southern Africa, Gumisai Bonzo, the director of a non -profit organization, is worried about her organization and her.
Zimbabwe is one of the few African countries that have achieved milestones in the diagnosis, treatment, and the amount of virus amount. It is believed that it has saved more than 20 million lives, mainly for the groundbreaking HIV program created by Republican President George W. Bush.
This program -President’s emergency plan for rescue, or Pep fur is targeted for Republican hardliners. Bonzo had not yet heard the words of the cr by Trans Smart Trust’s funding. TransmartTrust promotes the bisexual and medical services of the country that discriminate and the stigma thinks that many people want treatment.
“Everyone is confused now,” said Bonzo.
He has been treated HIV for 23 years thanks to Pepfar support, which has a reasonable price of drugs.
“I’ve been taking religious drugs for more than 20 years. I’m living a normal life again. I have to stop suddenly.” “It’s a death sentence for many people.”
Some people call it “cruel” cut -off
Liberia’s former minister Gyude Moore said that the US -based global development center fellows, which would hurt the life around Africa.
U.S. support helped West Africa to recover from long -standing malicious wars. The money from the USAID was paid for school lunches, support girls’ education, strengthened medical systems, and supported small farmers.
Moore called a sudden cut -off “cruel”, as many colleagues did.
“There is no small room,” he said.
After abandoning this support, he added, “I will hurt the United States, so I will not distinguish between allies, partners, and enemies.”
And rival China in the United States will move to African regions and move happily to build influence and business contracts in a country with abundant resources, says Moore and other analysts.
“We feed an empty hungry child in Liberia or feed Kenya’s nutritional children and provides antiretrovirus drugs that save lives in Uganda. These are not the interests of the United States.” Moore said.
Concerns about losing the ground in China
The United States also tried to raise a South Pacific profile to compete with China’s influence, including strengthening USAID spending on countries that depend on development finance.
During the visit to the Pacific Ocean in 2024, the authorities in order to increase the recovery of natural disasters, to support the catastrophic impact of climate change, to increase the recovery of natural disasters. We have announced a new expenditure of $ 15 million.
Mussaka reported from the Graham McRay from Werrington, New Zealand from Zimbabwe’s Harare. Washington’s AP reporter Tara Cup and Matthew have contributed.
