Taiwan’s civil society has not been immune to the U.S. government’s executive orders to freeze and review all foreign assistance, which has resulted in the termination of thousands of awards, including Congressionally-appropriated funding to independent organizations, such as National Endowment for Democracy and the U.S. Institute of Peace. While Taiwanese NGOs have largely been domestically resourced either through government grants or public donations, over the last few years, a growing number of Taiwanese NGOs received funding from abroad. More international NGOs have also been setting up offices in Taiwan with support from foreign funding. A number of these NGOs, such as Freedom House, were supported by U.S. government funding and have scaled back their staff and operations or even closed their offices