*For Myanmar’s war victims and Rohingya refugees, US aid cuts are disastrous* When President Donald Trump’s administration announced a 90-day pause on all US foreign aid, there was at least one place that aid workers felt relieved to hear could be exempt: Myanmar. On 6 February, the White House released a document entitled, “Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Situation in and in Relation to Burma.” That document referred back to a February 2021 Executive Order that said the military coup that had just taken place in Myanmar constituted an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States”. Aid workers hoped the document, signed by Trump himself – combined with a Department of State waiver for life-saving assistance – would allow them to continue their work in Myanmar and, by extension, in the refugee camps in Bangladesh that are now home to more than one million Rohingya Muslims. That sense of relief has been short-lived, according to aid officials and Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and Myanmar – most of whom only agreed to be interviewed on condition of anonymity, citing security reasons or the sensitivity of the topic. Read full story: https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2025/02/27/myanmar-war-victims-rohingya-refugees-us-aid-cuts