The Painful, Seismic Shift in Humanitarian Aid - and What’s Next
Once the largest funder of international humanitarian aid, the United States under the second Trump administration is pulling back. As part of the
America First agenda, President Trump slashed aid across the board, with the effects hitting some of the world’s most vulnerable peoples the hardest. This dramatic pullback revealed a critical flaw in the international humanitarian aid system: an overreliance on generosity by the United States. In their article for
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Allison Lombardo and Stewart Patrick explore the extent of these foreign aid cuts and outline a key opportunity for a reimagining of the currently flawed global aid system.
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