Australian projects tackling climate change and poverty in Indo-Pacific ‘in limbo’ after Trump halts USAid

China could pick up the slack' and increase its influence in the region after Doge funding freeze

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Donald Trump's chaotic" freeze of foreign aid has left Australian government-funded projects in limbo, putting climate change, health and education initiatives across Asia and the Pacific at risk, experts say.

The Trump administration, with the help of billionaire and unelected special government employee" Elon Musk and his department of government efficiency" (Doge), gutted the agency and stopped funding flows.

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