on On the afternoon of Friday, January 31, World Relief, an evangelical charity that helps relocate refugees around the world, but especially in the U.S. State Department received an order to block contracts with the Bureau all contracts. Population, refugees and immigrants. It was confusing that since that night, a group of Afghans who served with Americans in a protracted conflict arrived at Sacramento Airport, while nonprofits were signed by the state to care for them.

“It says, stop all work,” said Matthew Soerens, vice president of world relief advocacy and policy. “But we won’t go no Appeared at the airport. We won't go no Make sure they had a sleeping place and a warm meal that night. Over the next 90 days, it is usually time covered by federal funds distributed through various partners so that refugees have time to stand up and find a job that.

Since the inaugural ceremony, the incoming government has imposed freeze and stop orders on a large number of U.S. foreign aid businesses. The U.S. International Development Agency (USAID) funding (about $40 billion) is less than 1% of the federal budget, but all but apart from a very narrow series of plans, all suspended for 90 days, mainly involving life-threatening plans or Medical emergency. Many U.S. International Development contractors and staff were fired or released on administrative leave, U.S. International Development websites were closed, and similar cuts were made to the State Department's development and humanitarian programs.

On February 4, a few days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he would temporarily operate the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the remaining staff (except for "responsible for vital mission functions, core leadership and special The designated plan also requests leave afterwards and tells the person who is tasked overseas that will be scheduled to return to the United States within 30 days.

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Evangelicals and other Christian charities have not yet survived these cuts. Among the organizations that lost funds, including the Christian behemoths such as World Vision, International Judicial Mission, Samaritan wallets and Catholic relief services, which are $476 billion, are the largest U.S. Agency for International Development recipients in 2024. Due to the ambiguity of the language that the program will still fund, some groups have backed their spending just in case. "For the next 90 days, World Vision responded to an executive order to suspend U.S. foreign aid funds (except emergency food aid), while reviewing plans that are aligned with the current government's foreign policy," International Relief said. Organize in a statement of time.

But others decided to move on. “Although we have received the moratorium order, we have not stopped working in Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia,” a spokesperson for the International Medical Team said in an email. “We chose this course because as a Christian organization we will decide to focus on the value and dignity of all people (the people we serve and our employees).” So far in Uganda, Only a portion of the programs received waivers to continue operating, and the organization recognized that it might not reimburse for other programs.

"Our understanding is that the basic emergency supply that sustains life is exempt from the cessation order," said Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan's wallet. In the statement of time. “However, the details of the exemption process are not clear.” He added that his organization, which received less than 5% of its international aid budget from the United States International Development, will continue to serve Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ethiopia. Project funding.

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Some organizations have supporters within the Trump administration or the State Department and are trying to use backslide channels to understand the future of U.S. Agency for International Development and its funding programs. There are others calling on the president to turn the path. "If President Trump understands the boundaries that evangelical Christians want safety, he is absolutely right." "If he knows that evangelical Christians want refugees to be kept out, who is thoroughly scrutinized," Sorens said. In many cases, they were persecuted Christians, then he got it wrong.”

Although 80% of white evangelicals voted for Trump, Soerens pointed to a new survey conducted by Lifeway Research, while Southern Baptist voting companies found that 70% of evangelicals in the United States said they believed the U.S. Having a moral responsibility is to accept refugees. That may be why the world relief raised $3 million in the two weeks after government funding was suspended, most of which came from small donors. However, paying the three-month rent promised by the government is not enough. "The government invited about 4,000 people to the United States and arranged a plane trip," he said. "This is very different from some other immigration debates." The group estimates that if the U.S. government decides not to pay rent for legal refugees, the budget will have $8 million in funding loophole.

For Christians working with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the suspension of orders, the suspension of funds and the steady stream of work degrading from Elon Musk, who tweeted this It's "evil," Trump adviser Stephen Miller is a profound betrayal of what they consider to be a sacred profession. "I'm here to do it in Washington, D.C.," said Anne Linn, "like, what should I do to relieve my neighbor's pain?" "She was fired on Friday's contract with the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative, such as World Relief.

Linn acknowledges that many Americans want malaria-in-wounded countries to pay for their health care, rather than relying so heavily on the United States “those countries want that too.” "But most of their GDP is spent on debt repayment. We have to give them a runway. This can't just happen overnight." Meanwhile, in some countries where she works, the rainy season is about to begin. Mosquitoes will arrive, and the bed net will not, because they are trapped in the warehouse, and the person who signs up also has a parking order. She is worried that pregnant mothers and children under 5 years of age can kill malaria. "Who can read the words of Jesus Christ and think it's OK?" she asked. "It confuses me. If we say we are biological, we are not satisfied."