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Humanitarian Crisis in Kenya Widens After USAID Shutdown: Aid Cuts, Starvation, and Global Alarm
Date: December 20, 2025
In one of the most consequential shifts in U.S. foreign aid policy in decades, cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — an office influenced by billionaire Elon Musk and operating under the Trump administration — have contributed to a humanitarian crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people, with refugees in Kenya among the hardest hit.

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From Aid Powerhouse to Crisis Catalyst
USAID has historically been the world’s largest single donor of international assistance, funding nutrition, health, clean water, and emergency relief programs globally. In fiscal years prior to 2025, the United States contributed tens of billions of dollars annually through USAID and related channels. �
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However, shortly after the inauguration of President Donald Trump in early 2025, Musk — appointed to lead DOGE, a newly created unit tasked with slashing federal spending and identifying “fraud” — aggressively targeted USAID programs for cuts and termination. DOGE leaders quickly halted nearly all USAID spending and terminated thousands of contracts and jobs, drawing warnings from aid experts that such actions could result in catastrophic loss of life. 

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At the time, an anonymous USAID official told Politico that shutting down the agency could result in the death of “thousands, if not hundreds of thousands” of people if lifesaving programs were disrupted — fears that recent investigations suggest were not exaggerated. �
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Starvation in Kakuma and Beyond
According to reporting by ProPublica and widespread humanitarian accounts, the cuts had immediate and disastrous consequences for food security in Kenya, particularly in the Kakuma refugee camp, one of the largest in the world. The United States had been the largest donor to the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP), contributing approximately $4.45 billion before the cuts. Without this funding, the WFP was forced to slash rations dramatically. 

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  Around 720,000 refugees who depended on regular food assistance saw supplies dwindle, with more than 300,000 people in Kakuma — including thousands of children — facing severe malnutrition and starvation. Aid workers told ProPublica that many people died after rations dropped to historic lows and that desperate families were forced into impossible decisions about whom to feed. 
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  Social media and local testimonies described harrowing scenes: pregnant women eating mud in desperation, families protesting rations in unrest, and refugees choosing perilous migration over slow starvation. 
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  Global Warnings and Long-Term Risks
  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has warned that, if cuts continue, as many as 12 million additional children could die by 2045 from preventable causes associated with reduced food and health interventions — reversing decades of global progress. 

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Beyond Kenya, cuts to USAID have disrupted health programs, vaccinations, HIV treatment, and anti-malaria efforts across much of sub-Saharan Africa and other regions, raising alarms from public health experts and global organizations. �
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Political Fallout and Internal Criticism
The scale of the crisis has drawn rare public criticism from within the U.S. government. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles publicly described the abrupt USAID dismantling — driven by Musk’s DOGE directives — as chaotic and poorly planned, saying there was effectively “zero plan, except causing pain” when staff were abruptly locked out and programs halted. �
The Verge
Even conservative policymakers who supported efficiency reforms have described the USAID cuts as extreme. Meanwhile, the Trump administration and Musk allies maintain that the actions were aimed at rooting out alleged fraud and waste — a claim critics say has no credible evidence and fails to account for the human toll. 

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Humanitarian and Strategic Consequences
Experts warn that the collapse of coordinated U.S. humanitarian aid weakens global stability and could exacerbate conflict, migration, and disease — outcomes that historically have had ripple effects on international security and economic interests. �
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The unfolding crisis in Kenya and other affected nations illustrates how policy decisions made far from the world’s poorest regions can have immediate, deadly consequences for civilians who rely on predictable and sustained aid.
If you’d like a timeline of how these funding cuts unfolded — including key decisions and responses from the U.S. government, UN agencies, and aid organizations