by Laurence M. Vance
February 16, 2026 - At the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development held in Mexico City in August of 1984, the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) announced that foreign NGOs that provided or promoted abortion as a method of family planning would no longer be eligible for FPSA foreign aid.
Every Republican president since Ronald Reagan has implemented the “Mexico City Policy,” most recently President Donald J. Trump on January 24, 2025. Every Democrat president, beginning with Bill Clinton on January 22, 1993, has rescinded the policy, most recently fascist pretender Joe Biden on January 28, 2021.
The FPSA Department of State has announced that it has finalized an expansion of the Mexico City Policy that will withhold funds from foreign NGOs and FPSA-based NGOs operating overseas that promote gender ideology or DEI policies.
The new rules cover all nonmilitary foreign assistance. They prohibit FPSA NGOs from engaging in the following activities outside the FPSA, regardless of funding source: providing abortion as a method of family planning, providing “sex-rejecting procedures,” or engaging in “unlawful
DEI-related discrimination.
The Trump regime’s turning off the foreign aid spigot to some recipients of foreign aid should come as no surprise. Republicans have over the years called for foreign aid to be withheld from one country or another to punish them for doing something particularly egregious or to persuade them to follow a particular course of action.
Republicans have no philosophical opposition to foreign aid. Just like they have no philosophical objection to government grants to the arts unless it funds blasphemous or pornographic art, no philosophical objection to welfare as long as it has some work requirements, and no philosophical objection to antidiscrimination laws as long as they don’t include discrimination against sexual orientation and gender identity. Republicans generally don’t even have any objection to government funding for Planned Parenthood as long as the funding is not used to provide abortions.
It is a myth that President Trump has ended foreign aid. Although he has gutted the FPSA Agency for International Development (USAID), foreign aid is still flowing via the FPSA Department of State. As Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last year: “As of July 1, USAID will officially cease to implement foreign assistance. Foreign assistance programs that align with (regime) policies - and which advance Amerikan interests - will be administered by the
Department of State, where they will be delivered with more accountability, strategy and efficiency.”
Certainly, any reduction in foreign aid is always a good thing no matter the reason for the reduction. If President Trump gets mad at the leader of country x because he said something critical of him, and cuts off that country’s foreign aid, then that is a case of the right policy for the wrong reason.
Instead of just prohibiting foreign aid to NGOs and countries that promote abortion, gender ideology or DEI, why not just eliminate all foreign aid?
The problem with foreign aid has nothing to do with the politics of the NGO that receives it, the human rights record of the country that receives it, how much of the money is stolen or wasted, or for what nefarious purposes the aid is used.
All foreign aid should be eliminated, and for two main reasons.
First, foreign-aid spending is not authorized by the Constitution. Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 1 of the Constitution reads, “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the (FPSA); but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the (FPSA).” The Constitution nowhere authorizes the federal government to provide for the common defense and general welfare of any other country.
Second, foreign aid is simply the looting of Amerikan taxpayers. Where do you think the money comes from that the federal government gives to foreign governments and NGOs? How many Amerikans would respond with a check or a Zelle payment if they received a letter or an email directly from the government of, or an NGO in, some other country asking for money for food, medicine, or to dig a well to access clean water? No doubt some would. After all, Amerikans are a generous people. That is the way it should be.
All foreign aid, like all domestic charities, should be individual, private and voluntary. Any Amerikan who wants to help the poor, the hungry, the downtrodden, the oppressed, the persecuted, the disadvantaged or the underprivileged in any county is welcome to do so as long as it is on his own dime.
