On Thursday night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed its National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act 2026. The bill provides the foreign aid industry $50 billion in taxpayer funding, $20 billion over the president’s budget request. The foreign aid industry praised it “as a long-awaited break for a beleaguered development community.”

Heritage Action criticized the aid bill for “falling short of responding to American outrage over systemic waste, fraud, and abuse,” and “throws a lifeline to a corrupt, leftwing foreign aid establishment … that keeps open the door for the return of the progressive multi-billion-dollar aid industry” after President Donald Trump leaves office.

On day one in office, Trump froze all foreign aid funding, denouncing the aid industry as “run by radical lunatics.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused the U.S. Agency for International Development of “rank insubordination.”

Congressional hearings exposed the ideological rot in our aid programs from “funding transgenderism in Muslim Bangladesh, atheism in Hindu........

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