“‘The Trump administration has talked about US foreign aid as a transactional tool, that we will give it to countries who do what we want and not to countries who don’t. That removes a huge strategic comparative advantage that we have vis-a-vis China. When it is so baldly extractive, it almost feels like extortion.’”

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/the-us-foreign-aid-pause-has-already-done-irreparable-harm/