#us-foreign-aid

#us-foreign-aid

"Nobody really knows what's happening," one project manager running a Syria-based project told DW about the US cuts in aid funding. "They haven't put a complete stop to it yet so we're just spending the money on a monthly basis and hoping for the best."

I think I'm only now realizing how difficult it was five years on, and the responsibility and the pressure.

"The Trump administration has axed more than 80 percent of programs funded through the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the agency has been whittled to a nub."

We're not directly financially affected, but we're indirectly affected. We're on the ground in humanitarian crisis zones, providing independent and impartial medical humanitarian aid.

The post-World War II rules-based system of global governance, which the United States played a key role in fashioning, is crumbling before our eyes, said Eswar Prasad, a former China director of the I.M.F.