The US Congress is seeking to significantly scale back Donald Trump’s brutal cuts to foreign aid, including providing funding for areas he sought to scrap completely.
When Trump took office in January, he froze all overseas assistance overnight before cancelling swathes of programmes. While money is trickling back into the system, this has already upended health services in lower-income countries across the last year, as clinics closed, drugs ran out and tens of thousands of health workers were forced to leave their posts.
