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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Tory Shepherd

Australian projects tackling climate change and poverty in Indo-Pacific ‘in limbo’ after Trump halts USAid

A Rohingya woman feeds nutrition supplements   provided by USAid, to a child at a refugee camp in  Bangladesh.
A Rohingya woman feeds nutrition supplements provided by USAid, to a child at a refugee camp in Bangladesh. The Trump administration has gutted the agency and stopped funding flows. Photograph: Ro Yassin Abdumonab/Reuters

Donald Trump’s “chaotic” freeze of foreign aid has left Australian government-funded projects in limbo, putting climate change, health and education initiatives across Asia and the Pacific at risk, experts say.

The Trump administration, with the help of billionaire and unelected “special government employee” Elon Musk and his “department of government efficiency” (Doge), gutted the agency and stopped funding flows.

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