On American aid cuts/disruptions

When the music stops, those who’ve outsourced their ambitions get exposed

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I: Why is Trump curtailing the generosity of the American people?

It’s still unclear what the end state will look like after the Trump administration’s ongoing shakeup of American foreign relations. What’s clear is that foreign aid will not be spared. Billions in foreign assistance remain frozen. The administration appears especially willing to take the wrecking ball to much of the U.S. official aid sector. This includes USAID, the organization that is the main conduit for delivering foreign assistance on behalf of the American government. It looks very likely that the agency will be folded into the State Department (America’s foreign ministry), perhaps along the same lines as the United Kingdom’s largely failed experiment with the collapse of DFID. Canada and Australia did the same thing back in 2013. Ane…