Jonathan Cohn, Senior National Correspondent at HuffPost, writes about politics and policy with a focus on social welfare. He is also the author of SICK (2007, HarperCollins) and THE TEN YEAR WAR (2021, St. Martin's).
A Trump administration freeze on foreign aid is causing U.S.-supported organizations around the world to suspend or shut down some of their operations, including medically essential care for people fighting life-threatening diseases, according to several sources who spoke to HuffPost.
“None of us can perfectly quantify what that means, and it’s going to be different for different health conditions and disease entities,” the physician went on to say. “But those of us who have worked in the field, who’ve worked on these programs for decades, we know that in this next week, there are children who will die who would not have otherwise died. In the next two weeks, there will be more. In the next month, there will be more.
But Rubio’s directive included a “stop work” order, meaning organizations had to cease any operations they finance with money from the U.S. government.That came as a shock to private and former public-sector leaders who assumed that any changes would take place more gradually, with plenty of time for local agencies and organizations to make adjustments or alternative plans.
“When you have infrastructure in place, people and programs that are delivering services, and then you stop their ability to keep functioning, you can lose that capacity,” Kates said.
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