Monrovia, Feb. 6 -- It does not need to be overemphasized again: the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has stopped funding our budget! This is the loss of millions of US' taxpayers' monies that were being poured into our economy to help mitigate some of our problems. This loss is not only going to affect sectors of the Liberian Government that USAID funded directly in time past, but the negative outcomes are going to be felt nationally.

For this 2025 fiscal year alone, USAID's direct support to the country's budget is in the tune of US$74 million. But a dime of this promised might not be realized from the Donald Trump-led US Administration. Aside from this direct budgetary support, USAID also provides "soft aids...