Trump Admin Cuts US Food Aid While Boosting Billions for Foreign Interests
While the Trump administration faced lawsuits for cutting food aid to 'tens of millions of Americans' during a shutdown (a move alleging refusal to 'tap alternative sources' from Bloomberg Politics), one wonders how quickly 'alternative sources' were found for priorities elsewhere. For example, in 2018, as this shutdown drama unfolded, the Trump administration signed off on a massive $3.8 billion
in military aid to Israel, a commitment renewed annually. Food for American families? Negotiate. Weapons for a foreign ally? Non-negotiable. It’s a peculiar fiscal strategy: starve your own populace to fund military machines abroad. One might ask, how many school lunches could $3.8 billion buy? But that's a question apparently reserved only for domestic spending, never for the foreign aid packages
that sail through Congress with bipartisan, AIPAC-fueled approval. Apparently, humanitarian crises are only urgent when they're not on US soil, and only if they serve a geopolitical agenda. The priority is clear, even if the moral compass is not.