Posted on 02/01/2025 11:19:47 AM PST by Olog-hai
“It was a surprise to us,” said Roshan Pokhrel, Nepal’s secretary of the Ministry of Health and Population. “We really did not expect all the programs to stop.”
He told DW that the phone call had come early this week, announcing an end to all US-funded programs in Nepal.
“The programs in nutrition and in maternal health will certainly be affected. It’s definitely a worrying sign to us,” Pokhrel said.
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending US development aid on his very first day in office. Funds have been frozen for 90 days while his administration reviews whether projects are “aligned” with US interests, making the country “safer, stronger and more prosperous.” […]
“This is massive because the US is the world’s largest donor of development aid,” said political scientist Stephan Klingebiel from the German Institute of Development and Sustainability.
According to official US figures, its development aid amounted to around $68 billion in 2023 alone. “If all of this literally comes to a standstill from one day to the next, it will affect people directly,” Klingebiel said. […]
It’s unlikely that governments in the world’s poorer countries will be able to maintain all US-funded projects.
What about other countries, such as Germany, the second-largest donor of development aid after the US? “Even if it had the money, it could not manage the logistics and take charge of the infrastructure in such a short [amount] of time to compensate for the whole thing,” said Klingebiel. He predicted that in the long term China in particular would fill the gap. …
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“Foreign aid” is money taken from poor people in rich countries and given to rich people in poor countries.
That’s exactly the way the left likes it.
Those foreign programs are financed with U.S. Taxpayer dollars. We’ve got an America First president now. You boyz are going to have to wait for your cut.
Sugar Daddy US is 38 Trillion in debt.
The show is over - no more free ride.
Gdamn leeches
Not a word out of Deutsche Welle as to whether US funds were being used for anti-US activity; in the case of the Biden regime, the funds were being used specifically for that purpose.
If the EUSSR were to do this kind of foreign aid, they would certainly be pushing “European values” very hard.
The Bank of Trump is CLOSED!
Aww, Gee Whiz, ain't that just too bad.
We won WWII for several reasons — but one of the important ones was our enormous industrial output. That was our great weapon. And we didn’t need the Manhattan Project for that. We just needed the population to work hard.
It’s the 21st century now, and the Rust Belt is a reality, and we have off-shored a huge amount of our manufacturing. But still — our enormous economy is still our great weapon. Trump knows how to use it. And when he re-shores our industrial base, we will be even stronger.
Here’s a number: $36 trillion. Why do all of these craphole countries still expect money from the United States when we cannot make our own ends meet on a year to year basis?
These countries can make it up by reclaiming all the money siphoned off by the Clinton Global Initiative, and Biden Crime Family ripoffs.
TANSTAAFL!
Now close all embassies in worthless countries!
Start with the entire African continent.
Stop construction of the one in Sudan!
Keep slashing!
Assign Congress salaries and expenses to the state that elects them.
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It will be taken over by China? *shrug* Fine be me. Let China pay for it. Goodness knows we have for long enough.
Spare us. Most of the aid money is stolen by third world bureaucrats and cronies.
Why should taxpayers support other countries? Since when are we the ATM for all of them?
That’s a bogeyman that the EUSSR is raising.
And just to play devil’s advocate and presume their premise to be true: since Red China is using money taken from the USA, then the USA needs a say in that as well.
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