#foreign-aid

#foreign-aid

If there's one belief that unites Americans across the political spectrum, it's that other countries are the reason we can't have nice things. "We sent $250 billion to Ukraine," the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk wrote on X in January. "And yet we can't get water to fight fires in California." In 2023, Assemblyman (and now New York City Mayor-Elect) Zohran Mamdani told an audience at a Democratic Socialists of America conference that

Earlier this year, Donald Trump appointed a 28-year-old Doge alumnus, Jeremy Lewin, to oversee his administration's approach to global aid. Lewin's primary task has been to gut the US's aid funding. In an interview with the New York Times, Lewin argued that the traditional approach, which he termed the global humanitarian complex, didn't help poor countries progress beyond aid, instead keeping them dependent. The system, he continued, has demonstrably failed.

I'm a Christian man, and I'm just confused why there's this notion that we might owe Israel something or that they are our greatest ally or that we have to support this multi-hundred-billion dollar foreign aid package to Israel to cover this to quote Charlie Kirk ethnic cleansing in Gaza,

Somebody's got to do something about it. Someone has to take a stand. And there needs to be a conservative wing of the Republican party, and sometimes I'm it. Right now I am it, said Paul. I'm opposed to deficit spending. I proposed an alternative, the penny plan, which would balance over five years. And I will vote for that.

The court ruled that the administration can continue to freeze or terminate billions of dollars that Congress had earmarked for foreign aid spending. In a 2-to-1 vote, a panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the plaintiffs in the case...did not have the legal standing to bring a lawsuit.

Ireland's foreign ministry has called on Haitian authorities to ensure the release of a group kidnapped by gunmen, including an Irish missionary and a child.

The nearly 800,000 doses of mpox vaccine pledged to African countries are heading for the waste bin due to untimely shipment, with only 91,000 sent.

The House passed the bill by a vote of 216-213, marking the first time in decades a president has successfully submitted such a rescissions request.

Senate Republicans are considering changes to Trump's request to cancel $9.4 billion in spending, primarily affecting public broadcasting and foreign aid fighting famine.

Massie mentioned that both Trump and AIPAC have to think about the political risks they face; if they challenge him and fail, they lose credibility.

Now, the cuts usher in a new era in which African governments will be forced to redefine their priorities, according to Congolese doctor Jean Kaseya.

The inspectors general's report emphasized that cuts to foreign aid had a detrimental impact on repatriation efforts, heightening security risks and disrupting humanitarian assistance.

"We've come a long way, and it's profoundly changed the nature of our relations from former enemies to now partners," says Tim Rieser, reflecting on U.S.-Vietnam relations.