How Christian Groups Are Responding to Trump's Foreign-Aid Freeze TIME spoke to humanitarian workers—many of whom asked not to be named for fear of reprisals to their employers—about the implications of the suspension.

Food distribution is being stopped. Health services are being shut down. Lifesaving aid is being tied up, with no way to disburse it. These aren’t warnings of what’s to come, but examples of what aid workers say is the fallout of the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid and the gutting of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The Trump administration's decision at the end of January to freeze billions of dollars in US foreign aid was a shock to humanitarian agencies worldwide, including Ukraine, where USAID and State Department funding has played a vital role since the start of Russia's invasion three years ago.