Americans Aren't as Skeptical of Foreign Aid as Washington Thinks
Today's political debate rests on a faulty assumption.


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Today's political debate rests on a faulty assumption.

Lawsuits to reinstate frozen foreign aid have been hampered by questions of standing, jurisdiction, and legal technicalities.

We can't turn back the clock on USAID. But we can decide what comes next.

The spending bill is a mix of rebuttal and acceptance of Trump's efforts to overhaul the foreign affairs bureaucracy.

The change to funding governments instead of NGOs is long overdue but could easily go wrong.

Post-USAID assistance may depend on a country's strategic value to Washington.

Efforts to back fill some of the cuts to U.S. foreign aid by the Trump administration raised over $125 million in eight months

America's international assistance has not been destroyed - it has been transformed
'Grave and urgent threat'

The emergency request could set up a major test of the president's assertion that he has the unilateral authority to block spending budgeted by Congress.
'Trump had attempted to reclaim $4.9 billion...'

A USAID inspector general's report released Thursday lists Mathieu Zahiu as one of the agency's current top employees, even though the IG told a D.C. judge las…

The ruling is a significant - if possibly temporary - victory in Trump's push for greater authority over spending mandated by Congress.
The move aims to meet U.S. demand for greater burden-sharing in NATO.

The State Department notice appears to affect everything from development assistance to military aid.
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