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Food distribution is being stopped. Health services are being shut down. Lifesaving aid is being tied up, with no way to disburse it. These aren’t warnings of what’s to come, but examples of what aid workers say is the fallout of the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid and the gutting of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). “It’s heartbreaking for our beneficiaries, for whom this is life and death,” a USAID worker said. “We have programs in Ukraine, we have programs in Burma, in Sudan, in some of the most complicated, dangerous places in the world, where there are just massive humanitarian needs,” the USAID employee said. “All of that is stopped. All of that is paused.” “We do work that we think is really important for America’s power and stability abroad. We don’t do this work because it’s nice. We do it because it buys us…