I think you mentioned the humanitarian impact as well. What are people telling you about that?

Devastating. And to understand just how devastating, we spoke to Yanti Saripto, the president and CEO, Save the Children U.S., and I started by asking her, what has been the impact on children around the world?

The impact has been devastating on millions of children around the world. And now,

and we're talking about impact today, not in some theoretical tomorrow. We're talking about

literacy programs, education programs for young children being shuttered. I was in the DRC last year.

I saw this amazing program funded by USAID that helped children who could not

identify single liter in the alphabet and within eight weeks they were able to read each other

a story, explain the story to each other.

These were eight to ten year olds.

That program is terminated.

More than 20,000 kids do not have access to that level of education anymore.

And that is just a small example of the more than 100 programs that have been terminated

for Save the Children alone. And for those in the United States government today who argue

that it just shouldn't be in the U.S. interest to go into the DRC or any random country

and educate children? What would be your response? It is a phenomenal return on investment.

It is less than 1% of the federal budget. We firmly believe that development and humanitarian assistance

across the world ultimately helps countries be

safer and more stable and more prosperous, and that in turn also is better for the United States

and for all other countries that are a development partner.

What has been the impact of how the United States government has gone about these changes?

We've been expecting, and we were well up for a proper strategic review of how aid gets distributed globally.

It happens not just in the United States, it happens with other countries.

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