Trump has recently paused all American foreign development aid for 90 days. Tens of billions of dollars in funds are now frozen until Secretary of State Marco Rubio's review, leaving NGOs scrambling to quickly diversify donors in the meantime. 

Sources told Euractiv that EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas asked for a briefing to assess the risks organisations face, but Brussels has so far been clear it will not step up its own international development funding.

If anything, several member states already budgeted to cut it down this year. So, what does this sudden freeze mean for aid workers around the world?  

In this episode, host Giada Santana talks with Search for Common Ground's executive director, Hilde Deman and politics reporter Magnus Lund Nielsen to discuss how NGOs grasp Trump's executive order and the EU's diminishing role in international development aid.