WASHINGTON — On Wednesday Tim Burchett, a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, suggested to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the administration might consider using foreign aid as a stick, instead of a carrot.
“Will the U.S. be leveraging American foreign aid to encourage countries to stand with us at the U.N. as has been suggested?” Burchett asked Pompeo, who was on Capitol Hill to defend the administration’s third straight proposal to enact deep cuts in international affairs spending.
“We talk about the carrot or the stick. It seems like we're always giving them the carrot, and the stick might be in order at some point," Burchett observed.