Critics say a Trump administration order calls into question the United States’ global standing and reliability.

J ames Akot has three goats. He shares them with his wife, his mother, three younger siblings, and two of his cousin's children, in a household in Northern Bahr el Ghazal in South Sudan. The crops Akot's family planted were washed away in the floods last year, the fourth and worst flood in the region in four consecutive years.

Children around the globe rely on UNICEF programs to survive, grow and thrive — programs that lift societies and make the world safer.

The spiraling consequences underline the real-world harms from Donald Trump's upending of decades-old U.S. initiatives.