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Trump cuts all direct assistance to Northern Triangle countries Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala
Trump cuts all direct assistance to Northern Triangle countries Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala originally appeared on abcnews.go.com
In a stunning about-face, State Department officials said that President Donald Trump is cutting off all direct assistance to the so-called Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
“At the Secretary’s instruction, we are carrying out the President’s direction and ending FY [fiscal year] 2017 and FY 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle,” a State Department spokesperson told ABC News, referring to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “We will be engaging Congress as part of this process.”
These three countries are the primary source of migrants to the U.S., but for years the U.S. has worked with them to stabilize their political environments and economies and end violence and corruption so that migrants wouldn’t leave in the first place.
Trump hinted at the cuts earlier on Friday, telling reporters,”I’ve ended payments to Guatemala, to Honduras, and to El Salvador. No money goes there anymore.”
While the president has threatened these cuts before, this time the administration is actually following through.
While we have in the past sent millions to these countries little of that money trickles down (another example of the failure of trickle down economics) to those that need it, the poor. Stopping this aid isn’t going to affect immigration from those countries because the economic and social standards aren’t going to change for the people who are leaving.
So logically you say why waste this money; we should cease this aid. WRONG! Aid should continue and even be increased but with insurance that it reaches the right people. Helping those in need in those countries would reduce migration and thus be an investment. It would be much less costly to provide a reason for the people to stay in country than to pay for their arrest, incarceration and subsequent deportation.
And where would we get these funds? Well to begin with we could stop sending billions to Israel until they can show us they will stop killing children.
And what do we save if we stop this aid? Nothing. This corrupt regime will find a way to funnel the money to the elite in the U.S. It would be like DeVos cutting off millions to Special Olympics while increasing by 3 or 4 times funding for charter schools. That’s how this administration works. Well, maybe ‘works’ isn’t the right word considering the chaos Trump generates.
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