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And now for a more middle ground pov:
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It’s clear that USAID has gone off the rails. But throwing out the baby with the bathwater doesn’t serve the Trump administration’s ‘common sense’ operating principles.
When it comes to the Trump administration’s determination to rein in out-of-control foreign aid expenditures, particularly those funneled through the embattled U.S. Agency for International Development, better known as USAID, the proper tool to apply is prudent discernment.
Based on the growing evidence that has come to light, it is obvious that USAID is long overdue for a major shakeup.
U.S. taxpayers are rightly outraged by many of USAID’s initiatives in recent years. Some of the more egregious examples cited in a Feb. 3 White House fact sheet include $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia, $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru; and a $2 million expenditure for transgender medical procedures and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala.
This is rank ideological colonialization, plain and simple — something that’s rampant in Western foreign aid policies toward the developing world and which Pope Francis has repeatedly condemned. And it needs to stop immediately.
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It’s clear that USAID has gone off the rails. But throwing out the baby with the bathwater doesn’t serve the Trump administration’s ‘common sense’ operating principles.
When it comes to the Trump administration’s determination to rein in out-of-control foreign aid expenditures, particularly those funneled through the embattled U.S. Agency for International Development, better known as USAID, the proper tool to apply is prudent discernment.
Based on the growing evidence that has come to light, it is obvious that USAID is long overdue for a major shakeup.
U.S. taxpayers are rightly outraged by many of USAID’s initiatives in recent years. Some of the more egregious examples cited in a Feb. 3 White House fact sheet include $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia, $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru; and a $2 million expenditure for transgender medical procedures and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala.
This is rank ideological colonialization, plain and simple — something that’s rampant in Western foreign aid policies toward the developing world and which Pope Francis has repeatedly condemned. And it needs to stop immediately.
Continued below.
Separate the Wheat From the Chaff in US Foreign Aid
EDITORIAL: It’s clear that USAID has gone off the rails. But throwing out the baby with the bathwater doesn’t serve the Trump administration’s ‘common sense’ operating principles.
