Kathryn Mathers critiques the U.S. Agency for International Development in her analysis of the humanitarian-industrial complex, emphasizing its contribution to global inequality. The funding primarily supports U.S. interests while obscuring the root causes of inequality linked to U.S. policies and trade agreements. Mathers disapproves of Trump's significant budget cuts to USAID, arguing that such actions are harmful and only exacerbate the contradictions in humanitarian aid approaches. She argues for a dismantling of the current system, but warns against a solution from an administration lacking coherent plans.
USAID is very much a part of a system and industry that not only depends on global inequality but in many ways produces it.
Funding for foreign assistance... ultimately does its job of supporting U.S. interests and renders the causes of global inequality invisible.
Trump's abrupt cuts to the agency... are doing only harm, rather than resolving the 'paradox' of humanitarian aid.
The humanitarian industrial complex should be dismantled - but not by a billionaire-backed administration with no plan beyond abandonment.
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