Afghanistan, Nov. 25 -- Cuts to humanitarian aid funding caused shockwaves in 2025, and the fallout will last for years to come.

Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) teams have decades of experience responding to all kinds of emergencies, from wars to disease outbreaks to natural disasters. But 2025 brought an unprecedented catastrophe caused by policy changes and massive cuts to international humanitarian aid by the United States government and other donors.

The US government has rescinded $12 billion in foreign aid from the 2025 budget, in addition to canceling United States Agency for International Development (USAID) contracts estimated to represent tens of billions of dollars over several years. These cuts are exa...