The US no longer wants to grant wishes to the nations that require it after intervening and playing an active role for many, many, many years.

Under the Trump administration, millions of grants aimed at battling child labour at a global level have been cancelled. The Bureau of International Labour Affairs handled these grants, which contributed to the reduction of child labour worldwide by 78 million in the last two decades. However, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has put an end to the ILAB grants, which has been stated by the DOGE website. These grants ensured that organisations not affiliated with the government in other countries made sure of the betterment of the conditions of labour and kept companies in check with international labour standards.

These grants pledged adherence to certain rules and guidelines for the security of labour workers from different parts of the world. It ranged from helping children and farmers in Uzbekistan to continue the practice of forcibly collecting cotton to ending child labour in the tobacco sector by training agriculture workers in Mexico on their labour rights.

Reid Maki, the coordinator of the Child Labour Coalition, said, “We were on a path to eliminating the scourge (of child labour), and now, if ILAB is defunded, if the programs are closed, we're looking at the reverse."

“We're looking at an explosion of child labour."

The US Agency for International Development is now threatened and under decay under Trump’s administration, which hopes to dismantle it.

Supporting this decision to put a “pause” on grants, as the Department of Labour’s Spokesperson likes to call it, she further states, “Americans don't want their hard-earned tax dollars bankrolling foreign handouts that put America last."

Trump’s administration has put an end to sixty-nine international programs, which has impeded the efforts and progress of these programs that have worked to alleviate and protect workers of the world through forced labour, child labour, and human trafficking.

This cut of funds, which amounts to more than 500 million dollars, has curtailed efforts in labour standard enforcement covering 40 countries. The ILAB (Bureau of International Labour Affairs), which was established after World War II, has collaborated with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) of the United Nations for the enforcement of International Labour Standards throughout nations. The employees under the ILAB are now awaiting staff reductions. However, the Department of Labour spokesperson had no comments regarding this. This order is just a part of a series under Trump’s administration that has been seemingly isolating the US unto itself. Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, had declared large cuts in funding to the programs of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Trump’s administration is now putting an almost immediate end to humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and Yemen, which the UN World Food Programme referred to as a possible “death sentence” for millions of people. This stands as the latest attempt to tear down USAID while the US has been a consistent “benefactor” to Afghanistan under the Taliban’s rule, as well as Yemen. The adversities that are about to peak are a direct consequence of the termination of assistance and aid. It will ultimately just lead to destruction under the humanitarian crises that are already taking over at major points, as nations succumb to global relations and cater to their national self-interest.

The aid cut to completion was over 1.3 billion dollars, according to the data given by Stand Up For Aid.

Drastic cuts were made to the World Food Programme (WFP): 169.8 million dollars for the WFP in Somalia, and 111 million dollars was terminated from the WFP in Syria.

Under the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the 24 million dollar grant for two years in Aghanistan was terminated, and the 17 million dollar grant for two years in Syria was terminated as well, as told to the UNFPA at the end of February. These two terminations were rescinded by Washington as a quick response, but the grants have once again been terminated. Lives have been treated as pawns under Trump’s administration, and it has carefully crafted an isolated perspective of self-sustenance.

Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire conveyed her concerns, “Despite continued assurances that lifesaving programs would be protected during the Trump Administration’s 'review' of foreign assistance, DOGE spent the weekend canceling aid that the administration previously told Congress would be retained."

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