Cutting U.S. foreign aid funding will hurt world’s poorest, London researchers say [Video]

Cutting off money for programs that help get medicine, food, and other necessities to the world’s most vulnerable people could lead to thousands of deaths and allow destabilizing forces to gain control in volatile parts of the world, London-based researchers say. 

Over the last three weeks, The Trump administration has frozen billions of dollars of contracts funded through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which deliver humanitarian aid to people across the world, including in the global south.

“American international politics is not kind to a lot of people, so providing medical assistance and different kinds of aid relieves some of the pain,” said Kris Eale, who is originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo and studied public health in South Africa and working in the Americas and Haiti on USAID-funded projects. 

“They don’t understand the impact that their projects have on a bigger scale. The drama they …