Paris, France—The freeze in aid funding by Donald Trump's new US administration has left humanitarian workers seeing a large proportion of their
Calamity-stricken Filipinos receive relief items from the US Agency for International Development . Paris, France—The freeze in aid funding by Donald Trump’s new US administration has left humanitarian workers seeing a large proportion of their budget cut off and fearing millions will be affected as programs are suspended.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now its acting director, vowing to put an end to its “insubordination.” He said the unclear instructions from the US administration could prevent some charities from risking going ahead with programs in case they then had to foot their costs themselves.Daryl Grisgraber, humanitarian policy lead for Oxfam America, said that change was likely to be drastic.“At the end of those 90 days, it’s very likely there are going to be huge cuts on what aid can continue to move.“We have been looking at it as really basically a cynical power play.
“There’s a lot of chaos that’s going to play out, or starting to play out already, at the country level,” she said.
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