Cambodian mine-clearing program reels after Trump's USAID funding suspension

Cambodian mine-clearing program reels after Trump's USAID funding suspension

“I am over here because my mother told me as a little kid to clean up after myself,” said Bill Morse, who was a U.S. Army officer during the Vietnam War and co-founded the Landmine Relief Fund.

In the 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War left Southeast Asia riddled with remnants of war, foreign aid from the U.S. has steadily funded the removal of landmines and unexploded ordnance.

That lifesaving work is now in jeopardy.