On July 1st, USAID officially shuts down and transfers operations to the U.S. State Department. Amid growing uncertainty about the future of U.S. foreign assistance structures and funding, U.S. supply chains that deliver life-saving treatment to malnourished children worldwide have already broken down, triggering a global nutrition crisis.

90% of USAID's foreign aid contracts have been terminated, impacting tens of billions of dollars in global humanitarian efforts, including $1.4 billion cuts in emergency nutrition funding. Ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF) - specialized medical treatments that have revolutionized the fight against child deaths from malnutrition - are running critically low, putting millions of children's lives at immediate risk. Massive stock-outs are projected to begin in the coming weeks and months, with nutrition experts warning of likely mass loss of children's lives.

USAID funding cuts are also impacting American agricultural communities. Peanut farmers in rural Georgia and dairy farmers across the country who supply key ingredients for the life-saving RUTF products are facing canceled contracts and uncertain futures.