SAVANNAH, Ga () — The Trump Administration announced that they are eliminating more than 90% of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contracts and $60 billion in U.S. assistance.

first told you about Mana Nutrition’s struggle with government contracts and potential shutdowns back in January, now owners said that it continues to get more complicated and confusing.

A stop work order in January, a cancellation of a contract last week and then a reprieve this week.

“It has certainly been a rollercoaster ride, and we aren’t confident that we’re off that ride,” David Todd Harmon, chief operating officer said.

Twelve million dollars in products already boxed and ready to send out. The bulk of that nutritious food waiting to be shipped from right here in Savannah.

Last week, it looked like it would sit in the warehouse, after they got a termination letter from USAID on Wednesday. 

“Most of it was what we had in stock, already made,” Harmon said.  “And so that was big news. We immediately quite making additional product. We switched over to a product for other customers around the globe, but not for USAID. And made that switch quickly because they couldn’t afford to make additional product that wouldn’t be purchased.”

This week, their contract was reinstated, but it’s not business as usual.

Harmon is surveying the potential damage this could have caused both to employees and the 2 million children they feed every year. The Fitzgerald facility employs around 110 people while the Pooler warehouse employees nearly 80 contractors and will eventually house the same operations as Fitzgerald.

“We’ve not laid off anyone yet and don’t anticipate now these orders being reinstated,” Harmon said. “…the folks that ship this, the folks that distribute this and warehouse this… it’s still intact to get these products to the folks that need it.  That’s broken, that’s going to have down the road some serious implications for us.”

He said the organization was facing nearly $13 million in unpaid USAID funds and will be left to depend on customers like ‘UNICEF’ to prevent their operations from coming to a complete halt.

“If USAID goes away, it does thrust us into the arms of these customers to say, ‘Hey, is there interest there?’  and I think there is some interest enough to keep us around, keep us alive. But it would be a much different path than we thought we were on just three days ago when these orders were not in question.”

Harmon said it took Georgia leaders like Buddy Carter and Senator Raphael Warnock, political leaders from both sides of the aisle, to advocate on their behalf and keep them in business. 

They said they hope the administration, the American people and Congress will just lean in and make this a priority going forward.