Trump’s Decision to Block US Aid Heightens Humanitarian Crises

In famine-stricken Sudan, soup kitchens that feed hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in a war zone have shut down.

In Thailand, war refugees with life-threatening diseases have been turned away by hospitals and carted off on makeshift stretchers.

In Ukraine, residents on the front line of the war with Russia may be going without firewood in the middle of winter.

Some of the world’s most vulnerable populations are already feeling President Donald Trump’s sudden cutoff of billions of dollars in U.S. aid that helps fend off starvation, treats diseases and provides shelter for the displaced.

In a matter of days, Trump’s order to freeze nearly all U.S. foreign aid has intensified humanitarian crises and raised profound questions about the United States’ reliability and global standing.