The fatal cost of aid cuts

Iya Wala cooks in her village in Renk, South Sudan, on March 5, 2025. A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is already sickness, starvation and death. (Malin Fezehai/The New York Times)

AS the world’s richest men slash American aid for the world’s poorest children, they insist that all is well.

“No one has died as a result of a brief pause to do a sanity check on foreign aid funding,” Elon Musk said. “No one.”