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The impact of the ostentatious slashing of foreign aid by President Donald Trump can be measured in human lives. It’s been about a year since the dismantling of USAID, the United States’ key humanitarian agency. The move rocked the international humanitarian system and the supply chains of critical aid to some of the world’s most benighted communities. Food kitchens closed in war-ravaged Sudan; lifesaving medicines failed to reach desperate patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of people probably died as a result. As the United States cut its humanitarian outlays, other major donor countries scaled back their contributions too.