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Whenever nations go through unprecedented instability, there is usually an insurmountable moral and spiritual test that lies ahead. This is particularly true in the story of Irena Sendler.

Irena Sendler worked as part of Warsaw鈥檚 Department of Health and Social Services around the time of the signing of the non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany, allowing for a Nazi/Soviet-invaded Poland in 1939. Hitler was concerned about the recent bout of disease that was taking place in the Warsaw ghetto that had been established for Warsaw鈥檚 Jewish population. The disease was typhus. Poor sanitation, human corpses in the streets, a shortage of food and clothing, and the lack of means to heat living spaces propagated various diseases like dysentery, spotted fever, and typhoid fever in the ghetto.

With the Epidemic Control Department being Sendler鈥檚 gateway in and out of the ghetto, she was able to smuggle food, money, and doses of typhus vaccine to the Jews. Because Sendler was Catholic, she often utilized the services of the Catholic Church, which helped her to do the unthinkable for the most ordinary of humans. Over the course of two years, she smuggled over 2,000 Jewish children out of the ghetto.

In recent news, American citizens were astonished by a memo sent out on Jan. 27, 2025, from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget to order a spending freeze on federal assistance. This freeze has impacted small businesses, state and local governments, federal assistance programs, education, and especially nonprofits. But most important, the spending freeze has affected the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

USAID is an independent agency of the United States government that is primarily responsible for providing civil foreign aid and development assistance, which supports disaster relief, global health, environmental protection, democratic governance, and education initiatives internationally. USAID accomplishes this through partnering with other entities such as Lutheran Services in America, Philanthropies (formerly LDS Philanthropies) and Catholic Relief Services. Other lesser-known allies to USAID鈥檚 mission are American farmers who receive about $2 billion annually in U.S. commodity purchases for humanitarian food aid.

USAID is the United States鈥� modern-day equivalent of Irena Sendler. Unlike Irena, it is afforded the luxury of performing its moral and ethical mission through less covert means. Moreover, USAID is America鈥檚 means of sending goodwill to those living in other countries despite ongoing political and religious unrest.

To completely dismantle USAID and other federal government agencies with a freeze in funds not only halts many of these agencies and their missions, but it also displaces more American workers into unemployment. It gravely weakens a longstanding Republican Party belief that religious charities can take the place of social services and play a role in shaping a more moral American public policy. It weakens our national security. It suspends lifesaving efforts. It threatens the world with the spread of civil unrest and disease鈥攅ven the leader of a radical nationalist movement more than 80 years ago understood how the spread of disease in Warsaw, Poland, could have a devastating effect on Nazi Germany as he sent people like Irena Sendler to investigate.

鈥淚f you see someone drowning, you must jump in to save them, whether you can swim or not鈥� was a saying in the Sendler household and was the pivotal reason Irena constructed an underground railroad for Warsaw鈥檚 targeted Jews. Yes, the United States government is drowning in overwhelming debt. However, finding ways to reduce the debt and increase government efficiency can be done without a complete dismantling of our government, our Constitution, our economy, our national security, and our moral compass. We, the people, elected a government in November of 2024 that we hoped would be on the right side of history when it comes to helping innocent people in other countries as well as our own U.S. citizens. I issue a non-partisan plea to our lawmakers to embody the same heroic and empathetic actions as Irena Sendler by reinstating USAID and the work of other agencies that help countries and people in need.