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What do US aid cuts mean for America's global influence?

Feb 7, 2025
24:03

Its funding pulled, and its staff sent home. The world's largest international humanitarian donor, USAID, is under assault. If the Trump administration doesn't restore the flow of aid who will fill the void? And what does it mean for global US influence?

In this Episode:  

  • Hardin Lang, Vice president for programs and policy at Refugees International.
  • Natasha Lindstaedt, US foreign policy specialist and a professor of government at the University of Essex.
  • Alan Boswell, International Crisis Group's project director for the Horn of Africa.

Host: Elizabeth Puranam 

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