No country in the Caribbean region is as heavily dependent on outside assistance as Haiti, where a patchwork of United Nations humanitarian aid agencies provides everything from food for malnourished children to shelters for displaced families, while an armed international force is trying to help put down brutal gangs. But as the U.N. Security Council finally starts to mull over how to strengthen assistance to the Caribbean nation, those very operations could soon be in jeopardy.
The Trump administration, which already slashed its contributions to the U.N. earlier this year as part of global foreign-aid cuts, is seeking to cancel $9.4 billion in spending previously approved by Congress. The package of cuts, voted on last month by the House but not yet the Senate, includes $2 billion in foreign aid that would jeopardize U.N. programs worldwide, including in Haiti, where the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development has aid workers struggling to deal with a complex humanitarian crisis.
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