Pauses on US foreign aid and local grants send funders and nonprofits scrambling

We’re likely to see much of the foreign assistance in the region understood through a migration lens,

said Selee

This isn’t just a funding cut—it’s part of a rollback on LGBTQI+ rights,

said Younes

The crisis is only going to worsen,

the shelter said in a statement

Liliana Ayaldeamerican diplomat

Trust isn’t something you can turn on and off in a conflict zone,

said Ayalde, who started her diplomatic career at the U.S. Agency for International Development and now serves on the board of two non-profit organizations who also saw their funding cut

Champagne bottles are uncorking right now in Beijing,

said Adam Isacson, who has studied foreign aid trends for years and directs the defense oversight program at the Washington Office on Latin America

We don't want to see people die and the like,

Rubio said

Marco Rubiosecretary of State

The U.S. government is not a charity."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the pause on billions of U.S. dollars of foreign aid Thursday, stating

Because otherwise you don't get your money,

he added

We must proceed very carefully over the next few weeks to mitigate the impact of this funding uncertainty on refugees and displaced people, on our operations and on our teams,

he said in an internal email accessed by The Guardian news outlet

Tammy Brucestate Department spokesperson

President Trump stated clearly that the United States is no longer going to blindly dole out money with no return for the American people,

according to a statement from State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce

We acknowledge the uncertainty you are experiencing and apologise deeply for the inconvenience. Aurum is committed to seeking solutions together with other partners to address the challenges as soon as possible,

the organisation said

By suspending foreign development assistance, the Trump administration is threatening the lives and futures of communities in crisis, and abandoning the United States’ long-held bipartisan approach to foreign assistance which supports people based on need, regardless of politics,

Maxman said in a statement

It’s not hyperbolic to say that if a child gets malaria [and] shows up to the clinic that used to be run by the USAID programme, that clinic doesn’t exist any more. It’s closed and they don’t get medicine for malaria, that child could die,

she explained

I think these pauses may end up changing the relationship other countries have with US assistance,

Bonnifield explained

If you don’t see it as reliable … it could be cut off one day to the next. You might still want it, but how you think about it and how you interact with it might look quite different. How it makes you think about America might also change to some extent,

she added

It could be anything from basically 99 percent of programmes get restored at the end of a review period … or it could be a much more sweeping realignment of the portfolio. I think at this point, we really have no idea where this is headed,

she said

It’s no exaggeration to say that we have democracy in Moldova, in part thanks to American financial support,

Valeriu Pasa, the chairman of the Chisinau-based think-tank WatchDog, said in a statement on Wednesday

We currently have a USAID project about public financing. Training for local NGOs regarding following of public finances,

Nemanja Nenadic from Transparency International organization in Serbia, told the AP

As a result, we have placed a number of USAID employees on administrative leave with full pay and benefits until further notice while we complete our analysis of these actions,

Gray wrote

All USAID-funded activities have been put on hold. Without immediate alternative support, these crucial activities may not continue at the same scale or effectiveness,

said Ion Manole, the association’s executive director