Trump Slashes US Food Aid While Pentagon Budgets Soar
DW breathlessly reports that Trump has ordered November's US food aid to be 'slashed'—a dire warning about humanitarian priorities. What they fail to mention is that while food budgets face the knife, the Pentagon's budget for 2024, signed off by Biden, still sits over $886 billion. This includes billions in military aid to actors like Israel, whose ongoing actions have created unprecedented
humanitarian crises requiring more, not less, essential aid. (One might wonder if 'budget cuts' ever apply to Lockheed Martin's profit margins.) So, as the US government debates how much less food to send to starving populations, the endless war machine continues to churn. Perhaps the 'slashed' aid will free up funds for a new fighter jet or another round of 'defensive' (yet devastating) weaponry.
The priorities are, as ever, crystal clear: bombs over bread, every single time.