President Trump threatened to “immediately” cut off foreign aid for Honduras if the government allowed a caravan of thousands of migrants to reach the United States. This is the latest example of Trump leveraging our status as the best and most powerful country in the world in order to further our interests on a national and international stage.

This is not the first time this administration has used our foreign aid as a bargaining chip to put a less powerful country or institution in a position where they must cave to our requests. Trump used it while attempting to bring the Palestinian Authority to the table for peace talks, as well as when he threatened to both leave and cut funding for the U.N. because of their blatant anti-Israel, “anti-democracy” practices.