What Happened When Trump Abandoned the World’s Poorest Children

A year after some of the world’s richest men cut aid for the world’s poorest children, they’re trying to roll out a new public relations narrative:

Aid continues! We’re saving lives from AIDS! Anyway, aid never really worked, so we’re focused on trade! Building opportunities for American companies while saving babies!

As Jeremy Lewin, the acting under secretary of state for foreign assistance, put it: “Contrary to false media narratives, the data shows that President Trump’s foreign assistance review maintained and improved frontline lifesaving programs, while reducing NGO bloat and costs.”

“False media narratives” may refer to my reporting from a series of........

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