{"id":33298,"date":"2025-02-14T05:18:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T05:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/australian-projects-tackling-climate-change-and-poverty-in-indo-pacific-in-limbo-after-trump-halts-usaid\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T05:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T05:18:48","slug":"australian-projects-tackling-climate-change-and-poverty-in-indo-pacific-in-limbo-after-trump-halts-usaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/australian-projects-tackling-climate-change-and-poverty-in-indo-pacific-in-limbo-after-trump-halts-usaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian projects tackling climate change and poverty in Indo-Pacific \u2018in limbo\u2019 after Trump halts USAid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China could \u2018pick up the slack\u2019 and increase its influence in the region after Doge funding freeze<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/usaid\">\u201cchaotic\u201d freeze<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration, with the help of billionaire and unelected \u201cspecial government employee\u201d Elon Musk and his \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge), gutted the agency and stopped funding flows.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/14\/australian-projects-tackling-climate-change-and-poverty-in-indo-pacific-in-limbo-after-trump-halts-usaid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China could \u2018pick up the slack\u2019 and increase its influence in the region after Doge funding freeze Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cchaotic\u201d 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 &#8230; <a title=\"Australian projects tackling climate change and poverty in Indo-Pacific \u2018in limbo\u2019 after Trump halts USAid\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/australian-projects-tackling-climate-change-and-poverty-in-indo-pacific-in-limbo-after-trump-halts-usaid\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Australian projects tackling climate change and poverty in Indo-Pacific \u2018in limbo\u2019 after Trump halts USAid\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}