It's hard for me to speak to the specific impact those cuts will have.
That said, right now we're at a really challenging point across the entire aid sector. We're seeing contractions across the board as the world prepares more broadly for conflict than it does for peace and sustainability. It is crucial to keep in mind that efforts like ours and efforts like those at Save Ukraine are fundamentally stabilization efforts.
If you work with a team like that at Yale humanitarian research lab, you're not just working on accountability for the sake of an eventual court case; you're working on, and investing in, a very real change in the tone and the tenor of the present. That can create a more stable future, as well as, frankly, a more stable next five minutes.
That's something that I think policy-makers would do well to keep in mind when they're looking to figure out not only how to avoid conflict but also how to potentially change the weather in the 10-day forecast.