The United Nations humanitarian arm has responded to the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze by halting all hiring and nonessential procurement and scaling back its work to try and focus “on the most urgent crises.”
The global aid system has been thrown into chaos by U.S. President Donald Trump’s 90-day aid freeze and stop-work order for USAID programming, with reports of food and medical supplies stuck in limbo and uncertainty over how to apply the waiver for “life-saving humanitarian assistance.”
The United States gave 42% of global humanitarian funding last year.
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Vince Chadwick is a contributing reporter at Devex. A law graduate from Melbourne, Australia, he was social affairs reporter for The Age newspaper, before covering breaking news, the arts, and public policy across Europe, including as a reporter and editor at POLITICO Europe. He was long-listed for International Journalist of the Year at the 2023 One World Media Awards.
