The case for persisting with foreign aid

The case for persisting with foreign aid

It is disgusting to read the boast of the world’s richest man that “we spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper”. That this raises constitutional and legal issues for the US republic is quite clear. Indeed, it is evident that those now in charge would be quite happy to dispose of such tiresome constraints altogether. But there are also moral issues. Should the US effort to succour the world’s poorest have been fed into a “woodchipper” at all? The answer is “no”.

Martin Wolf in the FT