Earlier this 12 months, the Trump administration dismantled USAID, the company chargeable for worldwide aid. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio insists that “no one has died” due to the cuts. Even although the US withdrew from Afghanistan 4 years in the past, it had nonetheless contributed almost half their complete aid. Then it cancelled $1.7 billion in contracts, of which round $500 million had but to be disbursed. The US State Department didn’t reply to NCS’s request for remark. NCS’s Isobel Yeung traveled to Afghanistan to examine.