A US conservative's plan to beat the 'aid industrial complex'

Last year the conservative Heritage Foundation published a nearly 900-page document outlining detailed proposals for how a future Republican administration should deploy the power of the White House across every aspect of the federal government.

One chapter deals with USAID and offers a sweeping set of recommendations that would reshape the United States’ foreign aid policies and programs.

The proposal outlined in that chapter is a combination of partisan attacks on President Joe Biden’s aid policies — which it deems “a divisive political and cultural agenda” — and a technocratic blueprint for reforming U.S. aid procurement.

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