In South Africa and Kenya, HIV clinics have shuttered, depriving people of life-saving medication. In Uganda, where treatment has also halted, aid workers estimate that forty newborns contract the virus every day. In Yemen, Norwegian People’s Aid has paused demining activities. In Thailand, the International Rescue Committee has turned refugees from Myanmar away from its closed hospitals. In northern Haiti, Konbit Sante, an American NGO, has stopped administering prenatal and newborn care. In Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, community-organized Emergency Response Rooms have closed over two-thirds of their soup kitchens, which fed almost a million civilians.  It’s difficult to know how many starving people will be affected by the Trump administration’s gutting of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), since the Famine Early Warning System, a US-funded program that monitors global food crises, has been taken offline. But in dozens of interviews with humanitarians and development workers, I heard the same refrain: thousands of people, if not tens of thousands, will die. The assault began on inauguration day, when the president signed an executive order pausing all …