Trump Revives Foreign Aid, Helping Needy Billionaires - NYT

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Reporting on the world can be heartbreaking. We journalists cover wars, earthquakes and massacres, and for all the emotional armor of our professionalism we are haunted by memories of children’s corpses.

So this year has been a painful one, for I’ve made three trips to Africa to report on children dying as a result of President Trump slashing humanitarian aid programs — his most lethal policy. In village after village I’ve found children perishing for want of $2 anti-malaria mosquito nets or 12-cent-a-day AIDS medicines.

Yet while the Trump policy seemed to me to be cruel, it at least appeared consistent and rooted in a clear ideology: He didn’t believe in foreign aid. Likewise, when Trump halted the entry of most refugees early this year, his motivation appeared obvious: He doesn’t want refugees.

Yet the plot now thickens. It turns out Trump likes some aid, and he’s good with white refugees.

Trump is backing a $20 billion rescue package for Argentina, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent talking about raising the total to $40 billion — more than the entire worldwide U.S.A.I.D. budget last year.

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— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 2025-10-22T21:36:36.761Z

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1. Taking away aid to millions across the world............

and USA citizens thought he cared.