Inside the Chaos and Heartbreak of Trump's Foreign-Aid Freeze

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Read More: Federal Webpages Go Dark as Trump Administration Removes Public Data SetsTIME spoke to several current and former senior officials at USAID and others who head up organizations it supports about the impact of the move on their activity.
58% : Programs are duplicated.
53% : Initiatives that advance diversity, equity, and inclusion are obviously disfavored, and collaboration with the World Health Organization is a no-go area.
52% : "But the ways in which they're going about it, in my mind, would undermine the likelihood of them actually having an aid sector to work with as they go forward.
52% : New administrations customarily have a period of review of government-funded programs.
51% : Or do we keep them open at the risk of being in violation of our suspension notice or stop-work order?"Later that day, after the NGO opted to keep the clinic open by repurposing some non-USAID funding, Secretary Rubio released a clarification that "life-saving humanitarian assistance" could proceed.
50% : By the evening of Friday, Jan. 24, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had issued a directive that went even further, effectively freezing operations at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. government's lead provider of nonmilitary foreign aid.

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