TRUMP SUSPENDS AID. Trump has paused foreign aid programs to scrutinize if they actually do what they’re meant to do. So I did a search of Christian Post articles to find objections to that policy. Because Christian Post was consistently anti-Trump during the 2024 campaigns. But in some cases, pro-Harris. Also, CP would give as much neutral exposure to obscure presidential candidates as to Trump. Now its editors must have second thoughts.
But I have found only one CP article which questions Trump’s suspension of aid. And it only concerns one Christian mission. Namely, World Relief, the humanitarian arm of the highly reputable National Association of Evangelicals.
World Relief helps resettled refugees. Last year the number of resettled refugees rose to a total of 100,000, the highest since the mid-90’s. World Relief resettled about 30,000 of them, most of whom World Relief says are Christians.
However, the article doesn’t make clear what kind of refugees that World Relief helps. Only political refugees, or also economic refugees? Yet one quote from World Relief’s president makes it sound mostly economic. The suspension “will harm many who rely upon U.S.-funded humanitarian assistance for people facing conflict, hunger, health crises and lack of access to water and sanitation.”
Did Biden’s open door turn into a broad way to destruction?
Trump’s cuts in 2017 resulted in World Relief laying off 140 staff members. Now World Relief says it has an “$8 million critical funding gap that must be filled in the next month as a result of the federal funding suspension.” State Department data show that in 2024 it spent an estimated $2.8 million on refugee resettlement. Then this year it had planned to almost double that amount to 5.1 billion.
But the conservative Center for Immigration Studies has criticized Biden’s change of policy to refugees.
“It opened the door to non-refugees to be picked for resettlement by non-citizens based in the US.” Also, it opened a path to legalize the status of people of any nationality who come to Latin America. Moreover, it expanded access for “LGBTQI” persons.
No wonder that Trump moved to put such programs on pause in order to analyze them. Unfortunately, worthy refugees will have to wait until they sort out what programs really help them. And what programs are opening doors to unworthy people like terrorists and sex traffickers.
The suspension will stick until further entry of refugees proves to align with US interests. That only makes common sense—which Christian organizations should cooperate and comply with.
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