We should be worried about the needs of our people before the needs of other countries. It’s insane that we have communities without safe drinking water here in the USA while we throw billions of dollars to other countries. We have 45,000 aging bridges, dams all throughout the country far past their expected lifespan, a vulnerable power distribution system and people without potable water. This is a slap in the face to taxpayers.
Our priorities desperately need to change, and infrastructure investment should be at the very top of our list of concerns.
It’s worth noting that draining the Treasury to send money abroad and building drinking water facilities, bridges, and other domestic infrastructure are not powers given to the federal government in Article 1 Section 8 of the US Constitution. Under the 10th Amendment, those powers are reserved to the states and to the people. Charity (foreign or domestic) is simply not a power we ever gave to the federal government.
Ending foreign aid is something I support fully. But continuing to have the federal government meddling in state and local infrastructure is unnecessary and ultimately harmful. Our government was designed to federalize only that which the federal government alone could do, such as conduct war, establish international treaties, and grant patents and copyrights. Local drinking water plants should be the responsibility of the people living there or their state.