#us-foreign-aid

#us-foreign-aid

Multiple groups launched fundraisers in February and eventually, these emergency funds mobilized more than $125 million within eight months, a sum that while not nearly enough, was more than the organizers had ever imagined possible. In those early days, even with needs piling up, wealthy donors and private foundations grappled with how to respond. Of the thousands of programs the U.S. funded abroad, which ones could be saved and which would have the biggest impact if they continued?

Let's be clear: President Trump has the power to end the starvation of the Palestinian people, Vermont's politically independent senator Bernie Sanders posted on X. Instead he is doing nothing while watching this famine unfold. Enough is enough. No more American taxpayer dollars to Nethanyahu's [sic] war machine. Sanders, who also pushed resolutions to ban selling US weapons to Israel, has long been consistent about his concern regarding the humanitarian crisis in Gaza amid the war.

"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.