Turning off the tap

• With the U.S. budget in crisis, foreign aid is on the chopping block

By Steven Lee Myers / The Bulletin
October 9, 2011

WASHINGTON — America’s budget crisis at home is forcing the first significant cuts in overseas aid in nearly two decades, a retrenchment that officials and advocates say reflects the country’s diminishing ability to influence the world.

As lawmakers scramble to trim the swelling national debt,....

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