The Christian Realist Case for Humanitarian Aid

Ayear on from the rapid dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the impacts continue to reverberate. A New York Times op-ed by the president of Refugees International summed up the damage: 2,000 closed health clinics, a 40 percent drop in food aid funding globally, and a great number of preventable deaths from starvation, malnutrition, and disease. A study last year estimated that the steep budget cuts, if retained, could result in 14 million additional deaths through 2030.