U.S. foreign aid changed in 2025 – and it was felt around the world

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  Consider this.

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  They looked at how changes to U.S.

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  foreign aid policies have affected people both domestically and internationally.

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  Here's one of Summers.

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  On the night of his inauguration,

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  President Trump signed an executive order that froze almost all international assistance for 90 days.

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  Shortly after that,

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  the State Department has issued an expansion on President Trump's executive action Monday to freeze foreign assistance for 90 days.

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  In a memo,

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  Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered a pause on foreign aid spending and a stop work order for any existing humanitarian and development projects.

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  What followed was the termination of billions of dollars in aid,

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  which funded everything from infrastructure building to vaccination programs to getting supplies into sensitive conflict zones.

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  Experts like Abby Maxman, president of Oxfam America,

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  warned at the time that this move could have a destabilizing effect in countries where that aid's critical.

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