Foreign Aid

Senators had asked Trump to call out Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his authoritarian policies and human rights violations.

National Security

Trump ignored senators’ wishes in talk with Turkish president

Anna Giaritelli · May 17, 2017 12:45 am

"We should be strengthening America's international affairs budget — slashing it is counterproductive and makes the world more dangerous," Durbin said in a statement. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

43 senators rally against Trump’s foreign aid cuts

Travis J. Tritten · April 27, 2017 7:18 pm

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., called on President Trump to invest more in diplomacy and work with traditional American allies as a part of his Syrian strategy. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Chris Coons calls on Trump to increase diplomatic funding to deal with Syria

Kyle Feldscher · April 10, 2017 2:45 pm

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on Wednesday predicted "unprecedented success" for the Trump administration in its first term. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Egyptian president predicts ‘unprecedented success’ for Trump

Anna Giaritelli · April 5, 2017 11:14 pm

A United Nations armored vehicle passes displaced people walking towards the U.N. camp in Malakal, South Sudan. President Trump's proposed deep cuts in foreign aid could mark the retreat of U.S. support for South Sudan. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump’s ‘soft power’ budget cuts draw hard opposition

Sarah Bedford · March 27, 2017 4:01 am

President Trump will meet with Bill Gates next week. Gates' last meeting with Trump came in December at Trump Tower, after which the founder of Microsoft expressed optimism about the prospect of working with the incoming Trump administration. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Trump, Microsoft founder Bill Gates to meet on Monday

Sarah Bedford · March 16, 2017 7:44 pm

Geopolitical influence doesn't boil down to just "guns," but also requires some "butter," or non-military diplomacy. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s plan to cut foreign aid will hurt America’s global might

Brian Brinker · March 16, 2017 6:25 pm

Christian leaders ask Congress to reject Trump’s foreign aid cuts

Susan Crabtree · March 16, 2017 1:26 pm

Ask conservatives who gripe about government spending which appropriations they'd slash, and many will name foreign aid, believing that it is a large portion of the federal budget. In fact, it's less than 1 percent.

Foreign aid — funding failure

Washington Examiner · March 6, 2017 5:02 am

Do we really need to cut security at embassies worldwide and leave them open to terrorist attacks? (AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri, File)

Beltway Confidential

Cutting foreign aid leaves the US with only one option: military action

Luis Rueda · March 2, 2017 7:55 pm

The United Nations Population Fund, received taxpayer funds for decades even as it collaborated with China's authoritarian communist government. (Wikipedia Commons)

Beltway Confidential

Donor conference proves that NGOs involved in abortion don’t need the American taxpayer

David Freddoso · March 2, 2017 4:02 pm

It’s high time to end the notion that USAID is an independent agency. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Beltway Confidential

Cutting foreign aid will make the world safer

James Jay Carafano · March 2, 2017 1:35 pm