Musk-led cuts to the US foreign aid agency have impacted rights groups, independent media, and election monitoring campaigns in Russia, Belarus and Moldova.
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00:00Donald Trump's decision to freeze funds to USAID will not only have a big impact on NGOs,
00:07but also on the role the United States play in the rest of the world, according to David
00:12Salvo from the Alliance of Securing Democracy.
00:15We're alienating people.
00:16We're opening the doors to America's adversaries to fill in these leadership vacuums all over
00:22the world, in Latin America, in the Middle East, in Southeast Asia, in Africa.
00:28China and Russia are the ultimate benefactors of this policy, not the American people.
00:33However, this expert believes that the programs might have bigger support from US citizens
00:38than some think.
00:40I think if you told most American citizens that, you know, we have a tiny fraction of
00:46the US federal budget that is going to supporting HIV and AIDS health programs in Africa, or
00:54providing food and clean water in real conflict zones, I don't think you would get much opposition
01:00to that.
01:03Watch the full interview next week in The Europe Conversation.