After Rubio’s announcement, a senior State Department official told The Daily Signal that “today the State Department, at the direction of Secretary Rubio, has launched a new chapter of America First foreign assistance that will be focused on prioritizing the core interests of the United States above all else.” Nevertheless, Rubio assures skeptics that effective, results-oriented foreign aid programs will continue under the supervision of the State Department, but those results will focus on furthering America’s interests, rather than the interests of the contracting class of NGO middlemen: “We will not apologize for recognizing America’s longstanding commitment to life-saving humanitarian aid and promotion of economic development abroad must be in furtherance of an America First foreign policy.” While so-called liberals claim that reforming how the U.S. distributed foreign aid is a massive forfeiture of soft power, Rubio goes to the data to prove that “the countries that benefit the most from our generosity usually fail to reciprocate.” He uses countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and North Africa as examples.
Author: Bradley Devlin
Published at: 2025-07-01 21:00:00
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