The State Department has frozen new funding for almost all U.S. aid programs worldwide, making exceptions to allow humanitarian food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt to continue.
  • fuzzy_ad@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This is about priorities.

    I don’t give a fuck about our soft power inasmuch as giving other countries money is a requirement to maintain it.

    I’d rather we have focus on internal issues at all, and resolve many of those, before we dedicate resources to fixing other people’s problems.