Trump’s Cuts Have Eviscerated Once-Bipartisan Foreign Aid Programs

A U.S. government initiative to help island nations in the Pacific counter China lost $92 million, more than half of its budget. Funding aimed at preventing and responding to atrocities committed by Burma’s military junta was cut entirely. When President Trump moved to claw back vast sums of foreign aid funding last year — first by winning party-line approval from the G.O.P.-controlled Congress to cancel the spending, then by unilaterally doing so without giving lawmakers time to object — his administration did not say which programs it planned to defund. New data reviewed by The New York Times presents the…