Trump’s reform of the US International Development Agency is stopping global aid, some food and medicine stuck in the ports
Shipping containers are full of life -saving antibiotics and anti -malaria drugs are kept in the port of Sudan, where they sit in forgetting. The basic drugs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo end after a government contractor is forced an amount to close air conditioning. Millions of pounds from American cultivated soybeans who were obligated to refugee camps abroad are converted to warehouses instead.
President Donald Trump’s mission to raise the level of the United States for International Development, a government organization in charge of mitigating global poverty and providing humanitarian relief, has paralyzed efforts to distribute basic food, medicine and others, federal groups and legislators.
The freezing of the administration for a period of 90 days on foreign aid, and an order to stop working to review the agency’s operations, and the sudden closure of the USA’s headquarters for International Development, has stopped the assistant distribution system.
The American Agency for International Development provides billions of dollars in humanitarian aid abroad, which preachers say that providing a decisive life artery to more than 100 countries in just a small part of the total federal budget. It is not clear how much money is linked to help, or the time when temporary suspension may continue.
The future of the agency is now very uncertain; Trump seized this as part of his mission to radically reshape the federal government, saying it was run by a “group of radical madmen”, and the agency’s spending and employees should be examined. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs took control of the United States Agency for International Development this week.
There are layers of problems. The process of applying for a new humanitarian concession and a boiler in confusion and delay. According to non -profit groups, it is not clear how the administration determines “life -saving” aid that can continue despite freezing, or whether the adjectives in issuing funds are intended.
Tom Hart, President and CEO of Interaction, an alliance of US -based NGOs, which depends on many of them on federal assistance to finance their work. “This is a huge waste of taxpayer money and goodwill, as well as the human effects that destroy people in need.”
He said that the relief groups that received concessions to distribute the HIV rescue drugs were unable to decrease funding from the federal government payment system, which hindered their ability to distribute the drug.
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Some shipping containers full of aid materials that are already traveling to their destinations are converted to warehouses and kept in the ports in the United States and Foreign Affairs, and caught in confusion, according to farm industry groups.
This includes about 33,000 metric tons of soybeans and soybeans used to treat severe malnutrition in East Africa and other regions, according to Jenna Perry, which leads the human health program for the American Soy Society, a commercial group in the industry.
“There is a carving for emergency nutrition, so it is supposed to flow, yes?” Joe Kramer, director of the Michigan Committee, said, representing local beans farmers, said. But he said this did not happen. “There is a freezing on charging anything,” he said.
Confusion on providing food and basic medicine has caused rare criticism from Republican lawmakers, as well as Democrats.
“I am urging Secrubio To distribute $ 340 million in American foods currently cultivated in American ports to reach the needy, “Senator Jerry Moran, R. Kan,,,,, Books on x. “The time is running out before these life -saving aids perish.”
Senator Bill Casidi urged, R. La.
“It is a republican initiative, it is a pro -life and supporter of America and the most popular American program in Africa,” Casidi Books on x. “Even there is a concession that admits this, yet I was told that drugs are still being held in clinics in Africa. This must be reversed immediately !!”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to the requests for suspension. Cassidy spokesman said there are no updates.
Breakneck efforts to Stymie Usaid have made many humanitarian groups to Comment full of their work. Others expanded the scope of services while struggling to stay a financial broadcaster as the United States Agency for International Development stopped – including those of the services already provided.
A senior humanitarian leader said that their group was due for approximately $ 50 million from the United States Agency for International Development in December and January.
“We have basic drugs that rot in warehouses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo because we cannot run air conditioning,” said the employee, who spoke on the condition that his identity is not disclosed on fears of revenge. “We cannot continue the front money.”
The group also said it has $ 500,000 of antibiotics, anti -malaria and other basic drugs that are currently holding in the port of Sudan due to the Trump administration ranking.
Hart, CEO of the interaction, confirmed the group’s account.
Carl Braonlo, chief adviser to the International Agency for International Development, said there may be serious health effects of sudden stopping the drug such as HIV, including high viral loads and the development of drug resistance.
“There are more viral particles that spin your body, which cause yourself, but it also means that you can spread the disease and increase the possibility of transmission It was demobilized last week.
Braonlo described his last working days as a “full stampede” as colleagues tried to redirect HIV, malaria and tuberculosis to warehouses around the world.
“There was no attempt to get out of this matter – this was just a complete abandonment,” said Brownlo.