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Thu Apr 2, 2026, 04:54 PM Apr 2

Trump Slashed Once-Bipartisan Foreign Aid Programs [View all]

Trump Slashed Once-Bipartisan Foreign Aid Programs

April 2, 2026 at 3:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/04/02/trump-slashed-once-bipartisan-foreign-aid-programs/


New York Times: “When President Trump moved to claw back vast sums of foreign aid funding last year — first by winning party-line approval from the G.O.P.-controlled Congress to cancel the spending, then by unilaterally doing so without giving lawmakers time to object — his administration did not say which programs it planned to defund.”

“New data reviewed by The New York Times presents the clearest picture yet of where the administration chose to make the spending cuts. It was mostly by taking a meat ax to programs that once enjoyed bipartisan backing on Capitol Hill, as well as slashing almost 90 percent of U.S. economic aid to Africa, by far the hardest hit by Mr. Trump of any region across the globe.”
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