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USAID shutdown is upending livelihoods of nonprofit workers, farmers and other Americans

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Some U.S. businesses, farms and nonprofits are struggling to pay workers and cover bills.

President Trump stopped payment nearly overnight in a Jan. 20 executive order freezing foreign assistance.

Hias, a Maryland -based philanthropy, is having to shut down “almost all” of its more than 120-year-old mission.

It takes expertise, cash flow and hundreds of staff to get USAID-funded food and goods to remote and often ill-regulated places around the globe.

For U.S. companies doing that, the administration's only follow-up to the stop-work orders sent out after the money freeze have been termination notices.

Almost all of those companies have kept silent for fear of drawing the wrath of the Trump administration.

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