‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’
17th April 2025
The Atlantic, a Voice of the Crust.
After Elon Musk made a public show of remedying an apparent error in DOGE’s massive cuts to foreign aid, the Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to millions of children who are starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, many of these children are likely to die within months, experts told me.
Paying for the support of foreign children is not the responsibility of the American taxpayer. If these hand-wringers want to spend their own money in that cause, they are free to do so–but they don’t want to spend their money, they want to spend your money, even though the national debt is now $31 trillion.