Two hugely consequential events. One hugely Trumpian through line runs between them.
I’m talking about Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance’s pledging conference and the upcoming Financing for Development conference, both of which are critical to the global south — and both of which the Trump administration is skipping.
To be fair, the administration did make an appearance at Gavi’s replenishment, co-hosted by the European Union and the Gates Foundation in Brussels, in the form of a brief prerecorded video by the country’s health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who promptly squashed any hopes that Gavi would get a dime from the White House.