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Workers distribute groceries at La Colaborativa’s food pantry, as food aid benefits, including SNAP payments, suspended from 1 November amid the ongoing US government shutdown, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, US on 29 October 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Brian Snyder

'I can't eat': Millions risk losing food aid during US shutdown

Since the federal government shuttered on 1 October due to ongoing budget disagreements between Republicans and Democrats in Congress, President Donald Trump's administration has announced it...

From providing humanitarian assistance to Rohingya refugees to building refurbished multi-purpose shelters for residents of disaster-prone areas, USAID played a significant role for improving the lives of people in Bangladesh. Collage: TBS

The ripple effect of USAID shutdown in Bangladesh

File photo of the NGO Affairs Bureau in Dhaka. Photo: Wasiul Bahar/CC BY-SA 4.0

NGO funds boom in FY25 despite USAID cuts

A child sleeps on plastic jerrycans as people queue at the standpipe, where incomplete water connections caused by USAID funding cuts to the NGO Mercy Corps have led to ongoing water shortages, in Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 16, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo

Trump's funding cut stalls water projects, increasing risks for millions

An American flag and USAID flag fly outside the USAID building in Washington, DC, US, 1 February 2025. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon

US aid workers lobbied for weeks to save food stocks from destruction after Trump cuts

Nazar Mostovyi, 13-year-old, who was injured when an explosive device blew up under his feet, sits on a sofa inside of his house, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the village of Nikopol, Kharkiv region, Ukraine May 13, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Sofiia Gatilova

As US and European aid cuts deepen, Ukraine's humanitarian lifelines fray

USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030: study

State Department refugee office to assume USAID's disaster aid role: cable

An American flag and USAID flag fly outside the USAID building in Washington, D.C., US, February 1, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon/File Photo

Trump calls his own foreign aid cuts at USAID 'devastating'

Food aid is stored at Edesia Nutrition warehouse in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, US, May 15, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Lauren Owens Lambert

US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage

A recently fired US Agency for International Development (USAID) staff member reacts while leaving work, during a sendoff by former USAID staffers and supporters outside USAID offices in Washington, DC, US, February 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

Trump administration moves to restore some terminated foreign aid programs: sources

An Afghan woman receives food items for her children at a World Food Program (WFP) distribution centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 21, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Sayed Hassib/File Photo

Trump administration food aid cuts put millions at risk: aid sources

Aid cuts could leave more women dying in pregnancy and birth: UN