Transport containers containing lifesaving antibiotics and antibacterial drugs were held in the Sudan port, where they sat. Essential medicines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are expiring after a cash-strapped government contractor was forced to turn off air conditioners. Millions of soybeans grown in the United States were bound to refugee camps overseas and instead transferred to warehouses.

President Donald Trump’s mission is to subvert the U.S. International Development Agency, a government organization responsible for alleviating global poverty and providing humanitarian relief, which allows distribution of essential food, medicine and other life-saving supplies around the world The effort was paralyzed. Groups and federal lawmakers.

The government's 90-day freeze on foreign aid, a cessation order to review the operations of the agency and a sudden closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development headquarters, despite the government's claim to "allow life-saving humanitarian aid" to continue the aid distribution system.

The agency announced on its website later Tuesday that it will be hiring directly in almost all parts of the world later this week.

The USAID (USAID) provides billions of dollars of overseas humanitarian assistance. Advists said that only a small part of the Federal Budget provided a key lifeline for more than 100 countries. It is unclear how much money was tied up for the aid, or how long the pause might last.

The future of the institution is now uncertain. Trump seized on this as part of his mission to fundamentally reshape the federal government, saying it was “run by a bunch of radical lunatics” that the agency’s spending and staff must be reviewed. The State Department controlled the U.S. Agency for International Development this week.

There are many problems. The process of applying for humanitarian exemptions is new and falls into chaos and delays. According to nonprofits, it is unclear how the government defines “life-saving” assistance despite the frozen “life-saving” assistance, or the intentional release of funds.

“In more than a week, basic life-saving plans and commodities (such as food and medicine) were stopped,” Interactive President and CEO Tom Hart’s work. “It’s a waste of taxpayers. Money and goodwill, and the devastating humanitarian impact on those in need.”

He said that even aid organizations that have been exempted to distribute lifesaving HIV drugs cannot reduce funds from the federal government's payment system, hindering their ability to distribute drugs.

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According to agricultural industry groups, some shipping containers filled with aid materials have been transferred to warehouses on their way to their destination and have been held in trouble at ports in the United States and overseas.

According to Industry Trade Group, the Human Health Program, which includes approximately 33,000 tons of soy and soy products, is used to treat severe malnutrition and other regions in East Africa and elsewhere.

“There is a courage to feed urgently, so it should flow through, right?” said Joe Cramer, director of the Michigan Bean Commission, representing household bean growers. But he said that hasn't happened yet. “Shipping anything is frozen,” he said.

Confusion surrounding the provision of basic food and medicine has caused rare criticism from Republican lawmakers and Democrats.

“I urge @secrubio to distribute $340 million of US adult food at present stagnant in U.S. ports to attract people in need,” R-Kan. Senator Jerry Moran wrote on X. Save aid and perish. "

Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.

"This is a Republican initiative, a biological, a native, and the most popular American program in Africa. In the African clinic. This must be reversed immediately!!"

The State Council did not respond to the request of the comment. A spokesman for Moran and Cassidy said there were no updates.

The efforts of the United States Agency for International Development have prompted many humanitarian groups to suspend their work altogether. As the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) stopped payments, which included services already provided, while others worked to maintain financial solvency.

A senior leader of a humanitarian organization said their group owed nearly $50 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to complete in December and January.

"We can't operate the air conditioner because we can't operate the air conditioner because we rot in the warehouse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo," the staff member said. "We can't continue to make money."

The group also said that $500,000 worth of antibiotics, antimalarial drugs and other essential drugs are currently available due to the Trump administration’s shutdown order.

Interactive CEO Hart confirmed the group's account.

Kaleb Brownlow, a former senior consultant at the U.S. Agency for International Development, said abrupt stopping drugs such as HIV antiretrovirals, including higher viral loads and drug resistance development, could have serious health effects.

"There are more viral particles circulating your body, which will have an impact on your own self, but also means you can spread the disease and increase the likelihood of spreading it," Brownlow said last week.

Brownlow described his last few days as “complete scramble” as colleagues tried to redirect HIV, malaria and tuberculosis drugs to warehouses around the world.

"No attempt to actually divide this - it's just a total abandonment," Brownlow said.

correct (February 4, 2025, 7:14 pm ET): A previous version of this article misunderstood the name of a former senior USAID consultant. He is Kaleb Brownlow, not Karl Brownlow.