Trump has a winning argument about foreign aid, but now is not the time for that debate

Published December 27, 2020 3:15pm ET



You know when would have been a good time for President Trump to rail against the obscene amounts of money we spend every year on “foreign aid?” How about any time other than five days before desperately needed unemployment benefits were set to expire for 14 million Americans?

Trump has the moral high ground when he says that the pandemic relief package passed by Congress last week is inadequate when you consider that the government funding bill that it was paired with sends billions of dollars to countries that don’t even like us.

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