USAID could lose funding of up to $72 billion and the organization could be absorbed under the US State Department, our correspondent Caroline Malone reports.
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00:00It's also something like 42%, according to the United Nations, of all humanitarian aid
00:07given to other countries every year. So a hugely significant proportion of the types
00:12of aid that goes to people and the programs it's been helping include women, for instance,
00:18in conflict zones, health crises, such as helping people in areas to stop the spread
00:23of HIV AIDS, helping orphans who've become orphans as a result of health crises, helping
00:29people to get access to clean water. So, you know, critically important health, water and
00:35conflict type aid scenarios that potentially now are losing all their funding to the tune
00:40of up to $72 billion. So a huge amount of aid could be lost because of the shutting
00:46down of this program. We are, though, hearing in the last couple of hours that USAID might
00:52actually be absorbed, what's left of it anyway, might be absorbed by the US State Department
00:58and that Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, is currently acting as the admin for what's
01:04left of USAID. So potentially some programs might live, but huge concern for the majority
01:10of the aid that is usually given by the program.