Nicholas Kristof’s lays bare a brutal truth: slashing humanitarian aid is not an abstract budget choice; it is a decision measured in children’s graves. Vaccines not delivered, food not provided, malaria nets not distributed, clean water not restored—these are the quiet, preventable deaths that follow.
Foreign aid is a tiny fraction of the U.S. budget, yet it saves millions of lives and stabilizes fragile regions. Cutting it by more than two-thirds does not make America stronger or safer. It makes us smaller, meaner, and complicit in suffering we have the power to prevent.
History will not judge this as fiscal discipline. It will judge it as indifference to the world’s poorest children.
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