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Richard Martin is the founder and president of Alcera Consulting Inc., a strategic advisory firm specializing in expl

Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze: A Step in the Right Direction

On January 24, 2025, President Donald Trump ordered an immediate freeze on virtually all US foreign aid and issued a “stop-work” order on current grants and contracts, effective immediately. It was the start of what promises to be one of the major policy changes on US foreign aid during his administration. This is a step in the right direction as it shows an understanding of the negative consequences of an interventionist government and places emphasis on personal responsibility.

Washington: An Empire of Grift

In 1992, Murray Rothbard outlined a strategy for confronting the American regime that relied on transforming critiques of state intervention into a full front culture war. In his words, the intellectual battle “must necessarily be a strategy of boldness and confrontation, of dynamism and excitement, a strategy, in short, of rousing the masses from their slumber and exposing the arrogant elites that are ruling them, controlling them, taxing them, and ripping them off.”