Trump Blocks Clean Needles, Funds Billions in Bombs
While communities fight to keep life-saving harm reduction programs alive, Trump’s administration (and now the GOP's ongoing stance) consistently prioritized funding for other, rather more destructive, endeavors. In 2020 alone, his administration finalized a $23 billion arms deal with the UAE, following over $100 billion in similar sales to Saudi Arabia. Funny how 'federal money' for sterile water
is too much, but for cluster bombs and fighter jets, it’s a bottomless pit. One might wonder if the moral calculus shifts when the 'addiction-stricken community' isn't domestic but rather, say, a population under siege requiring new means of 'defense.' The double standards are glaring: medical care for drug users is 'facilitating illegal drug use,' but weapons for foreign conflicts? That's just
'security.'