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President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) depart a Friends of Ireland luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on March 17, 2026. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump is defying Congress on foreign aid

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - ProPublica

USAID flag seen February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

How USAID cuts are affecting the world

Donald Trump. Pro-choice protesters. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s new foreign aid ban

Signage for the US government's humanitarian agency USAID is seen on a cargo container beside a tricycle in Manila on February 4, 2025. (JAM STA ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump aims to burn global birth control

A pair of UXOLao technicians walk down a new road built atop the old Ho Chi Minh Trail.

After spending the day finding buried explosives, A pair of UXOLao technicians walk down a new road built atop the old Ho Chi Minh Trail in Phu Vong, Attapeu, Laos. (Jerry Redfern/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The war beneath our feet

Danae Hendrickson

US President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts (Getty Images/Salon)

SCOTUS allows Trump aid freeze for now

US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on February 3, 2025, in Washington, DC. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

SCOTUS rejects Trump aid freeze

52 Vietnamese orphans arrive in a World Airways plane at Oakland Airport as part of Operation Babylift, on April 2, 1975. (Jerry Telfer/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Here's what US foreign aid can do

Mike Johnson and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The terrible equations of war

Lucian K. Truscott IV

White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, left, and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, both wearing face masks listen as President Donald J. Trump participates in a vaccine development event in the Rose Garden at the White House ( Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images))

Trump's futile ventilator donations

Yeganeh Torbati - ProPublica

USAID humanitarian aid is stored at a warehouse next to the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

The plundering of the global South

Barbara G. Ellis - Truthout

Central American migrants surrender to United States Border Patrol officers after crossing to El Paso, Texas from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico on April 21, 2019. (Getty/Herika Martinez)

Registered nurse Keene Roadman, dressed in personal protective equipment, and registered nurse Fred Serafin, demonstrates the proper disposal of the personal protective equipment, after the simulated treatment of a Ebola patient, to doctors and nurses who are part of the core care team that would treat Ebola patients, during a training class at the Rush University Medical Center, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, in Chicago. () (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

global health? American suffer

Gerald W. Parker, Andrew Natsios, Christine Crudo Blackburn - The Conversation

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Cutting foreign aid

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

A dog with a Santa hat waits with its owner to start the annual charity Santa run in Loughborough, Britain (Reuters)

Ashley Whillans - The Conversation

Jaqueline Mutere (YouTube/Center for Health and Gender Equity)

Kill the Helms Amendment!

Rand Paul (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Rand Paul's tiresome shtick

Rand Paul (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Paul's chronic inconsistency

Chase Madar - TomDispatch.com

Miriam Berger - Salon

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