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Two months ago, Mang Hre Lian was on a stage in Washington being lauded by then-U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken for his courageous and inspiring work promoting human rights and religious freedom in Burma.

Since Friday, the 2024 recipient of the State Department's Human Rights Defender Award has been roaming the same corridors of American power. Only now he's trying to convince U.S. policy makers his work matters.

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He's struggled to get what he called the "right meetings" to discuss the "crisis moment" for countries like his after President Donald Trump's executive order to freeze spending, pending a review, at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Trump wants to close USAID as part of a larger effort to crack down on federal bureaucracy. The effort is helmed by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

USAID delivers billions of dollars in humanitarian aid and foreign assistance to dozens of countries. Some programs it funds have won emergency waivers. Others have launched legal challenges. But the order has caused widespread disruption and sparked concerns about the real-world consequences if USAID is largely defunded or disbanded altogether.

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"I'm trying not to give my colleagues back home false hope," Mang Hre Lian, who works for a human rights organization in Burma − also known as Myanmar − in southeast Asia that relies on USAID money, said in a phone interview Wednesday shortly before he was due to attend meetings at the State Department.

"My aim is to meet with people who are close to Trump. So far, I haven't had any response from them."

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The Trump administration is attempting to shutter USAID without constitutionally mandated approval from Congress. It has made clear it sees no room for complexities or ambiguities.

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"Every dollar we spend, every program we fund, every policy we pursue must be justified by the answer to one of three questions," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said during his confirmation hearing on Jan. 15. "Does it make America safer? Does it make America stronger? Does it make America more prosperous?"

Here's a look at how some USAID activity worldwide has been impacted by the funding freeze.