Tariffs, war and broken trust: Southeast Asia’s Trump problem
The goodbye emails started arriving on a Monday. By Friday, Sheila’s inbox told the story of an organisation coming apart at the seams, one farewell at a time. Sheila* had spent nearly a decade helping run US-funded development projects in the Philippines. She had watched them grow, hire staff and take root in local communities. When Washington ordered a freeze on foreign aid in January 2025, she told herself it was just a pause – a bureaucratic blip pending a review by the n
US-funded development projects in the Philippines are facing significant disruption following a freeze on foreign aid ordered in January 2025. Staff who had dedicated years to these initiatives, helping them grow and integrate into local communities, are now receiving goodbye emails as the programs unravel. The aid freeze, initiated under a new administration, has led to widespread uncertainty and the dismantling of long-standing projects.
This aid freeze jeopardizes years of development work and impacts local communities reliant on these US-funded programs.
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