The Heritage Foundation has expressed approval of recent efforts by the Trump administration to reform foreign aid practices. Max Primorac, a senior research fellow at the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom and former chief operating officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), praised these efforts. He said, "Kudos to the State Department for finally ending the self-serving foreign aid industry’s gravy train coalition of international NGOs, U.N. agencies, for-profit contractors, and greedy charities that inflated the program’s costs."
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has introduced a new strategy called America First Global Health Strategy aimed at combating HIV/AIDS and other epidemics. This plan is designed to protect Americans while curbing what is seen as misuse by global health elites. The strategy mandates that recipient countries co-finance program costs, which is expected to benefit American companies and prevent foreign aid from being used to promote certain ideologies.
The strategy highlights findings from congressional reports indicating that 60% of foreign aid costs are allocated to overhead expenses, which some view as a financial resource for progressive politics in Washington, D.C. Additionally, it calls for increased collaboration with pro-life and pro-family local churches and aims to create jobs both in the United States and Africa.
Since 2001, the United States has been a leader in global health support, contributing $204 billion worldwide. The Heritage Foundation plans to continue advocating against programs they believe misuse taxpayer funds while supporting initiatives that provide tangible benefits to Americans and international partners.
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