We continue to track the on-the-ground effects of budget cuts in U.S. international aid.

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.

Supporters of the U.S. Agency for International Development are heading to Capitol Hill today to lobby lawmakers and staffers.

The cutting of budgets and jobs at USAID has derailed aid programs around the world.

The State Department says it's terminating about 80 percent of USAID's grants and contracts.

Aid groups say even life-saving humanitarian programs that the department had promised to protect

are faltering and children especially could suffer.

Marketplaces Nancy Marshall-Genser explains.

Mark Moore is racing to make up for lost time.

He's CEO of Manna Nutrition, a nonprofit that makes a nutritional paste from peanuts for starving children.

He's talking to me from a manna office in Charlotte, North Carolina. Over

Zoom, he points to a palate of food. And you can see that USAID logo there? I see it.

Most of Moore's packets of nutritional paste are sent to Africa. Earlier this year, Moore got a series

of emails from his main client, USAID. It's been a got of a yo-yo effect. First, it was an email in January.

The emails said Moore's contracts were paused. He should stop work. But a week later,

he was told to resume operations. But then a few weeks after that, never mind, Moore's

contracts were abruptly canceled.

USAID said Manas' life-sustaining packets weren't in the national interest.

Then the yo-yo bounced up a final time when a week later, Moore was told to restart.

He did, even though the federal government still owes him a lot of money.

Somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 to $25 million.

All this time, Moore was thinking about the children in places like Sudan and Chad,

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