Somalia continues to have one of the world’s weakest health care systems, according to the World Health Organization and other partners. And now longtime donors like the United States and Britain have been pulling back, especially with the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development this year.

Trump launched his latest attack on Tuesday, accusing Somali immigrants of being “people that do nothing but complain.”

People have their photos, finger prints, and details taken in a voting registration drive run by the National Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission in Mogadishu, Somalia, on April 23, 2025. People have their photos, finger prints, and details taken ...

President Donald Trump and his top officials have recently criticized Minnesota's Somali community, drawing attention to immigrants from the war-torn East African country.

The president also continued his verbal attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., saying the first Somali American elected to Congress "shouldn’t be allowed to be a congresswoman."