A nation that borrows trillions while sending taxpayer dollars to a high-gloss indulgence ritual for elite globalists in Davos, while sinking deeper into debt, is not practicing leadership; it is practicing financial and moral negligence. That reality has been ignored for far too long in Washington, even as Americans were told to accept higher costs, fewer opportunities and perpetual austerity at home. The disconnect between how the federal government spends money abroad and the financial pressures facing families at home has become impossible to defend. 

The effort to defund the World Economic Forum is not merely symbolic, nor is it driven by isolationism. It represents a long-overdue reckoning with how America has spent its money, exercised its influence and surrendered leverage over the past several decades. For years, U.S. taxpayers were compelled to subsidize global institutions populated by wealthy, unelected elites who neither answer to American voters nor prioritize American interests. Even more troubling, Washington did so while running historic deficits, quietly normalizing debt as a governing strategy rather than treating it as the warning sign it is.

 This contradiction should have forced a national debate years ago. Instead, it was treated as the cost of doing business in a globalized world. Recent efforts to defund international organizations and rein in foreign aid spending signal that this administration is finally willing to challenge the assumption that “global engagement” must always mean........

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