内容摘要：Equality California, an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, said the Trump administration was “bullying a child” and called on CIF to uphold its “inclusive, evidence-based policies.”

Equality California, an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, said the Trump administration was “bullying a child” and called on CIF to uphold its “inclusive, evidence-based policies.”

Aid cuts mean that 11% more children are expected to be severely malnourished than in the previous year, Save the Children said.Somalia has long faced food insecurity because of climate shocks like drought. But aid groups and Somalis alike now fear a catastrophe.

Former Somali Foreign Minister Ahmed Moalin told state-run TV last month that USAID had provided $1 billion in funding for Somalia in fiscal year 2023, with a similar amount expected for 2024.Much of that funding is now gone.A U.S. State Department spokesperson in a statement to the AP said “several lifesaving USAID humanitarian assistance programs are active in Somalia, including programs that provide food and nutrition assistance to children,” and they were working to make sure the programs continue when such aid transitions to the State Department on July 1.

The problem, aid workers say, is the U.S. hasn’t made clear what programs are lifesaving, or whether whatever funding is left will continue after July 1.The aid group CARE has warned that 4.6 million people in Somalia are projected to face severe hunger by June, an uptick of hundreds of thousands of people from forecasts before the aid cuts.

The effects are felt in rural areas and in Mogadishu, where over 800,000 displaced people shelter. Camps for them are ubiquitous in the city’s suburbs, but many of their centers for feeding the hungry are now closing.

Some people still go to the closed centers and hope that help will come.Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington, speaks to reporters after Ash Wednesday Mass at Saint Matthew the Apostle Cathedral in Washington, March, 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington, speaks to reporters after Ash Wednesday Mass at Saint Matthew the Apostle Cathedral in Washington, March, 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)to lead the Archdiocese of Washington in 2019 and made him the first Black cardinal from the U.S. in 2020. Gregory, 77, retired this year from leading the prominent archdiocese, which he shepherded through significant turmoil. Its two previous leaders,

, were implicated in a new wave of the clergy sex abuse scandal. Gregory has supported social justice and solidarity with immigrants. He drew notice for his relatively inclusive approach for LGBTQ+ Catholics. He toldin January: “I apologize for my own lack of courage to bring healing and hope, and I ask forgiveness.” Gregory was born in Chicago and ordained there in 1973, serving as auxiliary bishop beginning in 1983. After 11 years as bishop in Belleville, Illinois, he was appointed in 2004 by John Paul II to be archbishop of Atlanta.