“We’re going to be doing foreign aid. We’re going to be doing humanitarian relief, disaster relief,” Rubio told his former Senate Foreign Relations Committee colleagues. “We’re going to be doing all the things we’ve done before. Maybe not some of the same projects, but we’re going to be doing all of it.”
JRS/USA President Kelly Ryan on U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts – Washington Post Op-Ed
28 May 2025|The Washington Post Op-ed - JRS/USA President Kelly Ryan
JRS/USA President Kelly Ryan Featured in The Washington Post on U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts
JRS/USA President Kelly Ryan was featured in a powerful op-ed published by The Washington Post on May 28, 2025. In the piece, Ryan criticizes recent cuts to U.S. humanitarian and foreign aid programs—emphasizing the lives that are on the line as previously lifesaving assistance stalls.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared last week before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, where he spent much of his testimonyresponding to criticisms of the Trump administration’s use of executive orders in January to dismantle congressionally authorized foreign assistance. The cuts and freezes have sent aid groups scrambling to triage help for desperate communities.
There’s just one problem: They’re not doing it. Despite months of assurances by Rubio that the administration planned to maintain “lifesaving” aid, there has been a catastrophic halt to programs that — by any reasonable definition — prevent people from dying or being brutally harmed.
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