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Mass’s removal of thousands of employees abroad and in Washington would died billions of dollars in projects for approx. 120 countries, including security assistance for partners such as Ukraine as well as development work for pure water, job education and education, including for schoolgirls under the Taliban rule in Afghanistan.

The United States is the world’s largest humanitarian donor. It spends less than 1% of its budget on foreign aid, a smaller proportion of its budget than some countries.

Health programs such as those who are credited to help end polio and cups -epidemics and a recognized HIV/AIDS program that saved more than 20 million lives in Africa has already stopped. Then have monitoring and implementations of fast response teams to infectious diseases such as an ebola outbreak in Uganda.

Hundreds of millions of dollars food and medicines already provided by US companies sit in ports due to the administration’s sudden shutdown of the agency.

Democratic lawmakers and others say USID is laid down in legislation as an independent agency and cannot be closed without congressional approval. Supporters of USAID from both political parties say its work abroad is important to counteract the influence of Russia, China and other opponents and rivals abroad and to cement alliances and partnerships.

The decision to draw direct-rental staff and their families earlier than their planned departures are likely to cost the government tens of thousands of millions of dollars in travel and moving costs.