"2 million dead by the end of the year": Ex-USAID chief says aid cuts will kill starving children

USAID was shuttering by billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump .

Experts are fighting for the restoration of key programs, like those that relieve the starvation of children, while bracing for the impact of the cuts around the world.

Some of the countries following the United States in cutting foreign aid include the United Kingdom , the Netherlands , France and Belgium .

USAID has played a critical role in monitoring and containing outbreaks of Ebola and the Marburg Virus in countries like Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo .

Natsios said he expects the pullback in aid to worsen the ongoing forced migration crisis, which he says is the worst since World War II .