Q&A: What will US foreign aid look like in the age of Trump?
by Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
Dec 10, 2017
3 minutes
MUMBAI, India - As the Trump administration slashes the State Department's payroll and turns U.S. foreign policy inward, worries have spread through the U.S. Agency for International Development, which directs most of the government's development assistance worldwide.
Foreign aid accounts for about 1 percent of the federal budget, which President Donald Trump regards as too much. He has proposed cutting USDAID funding by more than one-third. While congressional budget negotiators have pledged to restore some of the funding, it has reignited a debate over whether foreign assistance advances U.S. interests in developing nations or promotes dependency
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