Brief: After Trump Administration's 90-Day U.S. Foreign Aid Review, the Human Toll is Immeasurable and Will Grow Exponentially
On January 20, President Trump signed an Executive Order that began the assault on U.S. foreign aid and led to the illegal dismantling of USAID. After a 90-day review, the human toll is immeasurable and will grow exponentially.
Led by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, the sudden funding freeze and chaotic processes that followed left millions of people in the world’s poorest communities in limbo, with immediate life-threatening gaps in programs and widespread uncertainty if they could still access food, vaccines, education and more. Not only did this impact and take lives, it has made the world a more unstable, unsafe, unequal place for us all.
While Oxfam America does not receive U.S. government funding, as part of the already overstretched and underfunded global aid and advocacy community our programs and those of partner organizations around the globe have been immediately, severely impacted.
The fight is not over - Oxfam America is continuing our legal efforts to protect U.S. foreign aid and the people supported by it. We are pushing for it to be an effective and equitable system that puts people in the most urgent need ahead of politics and calling for Congress to take strong, unified action to hold the line against these cuts to save an untold number of lives, and to support the next generation of children who have been forced to live through crisis, and rely on this support to grow, learn, and survive.