'Unbelievable Carnage': Bono Explodes over Trump's Move to Kill Foreign Aid

'Unbelievable carnage': Bono explodes over Trump's move to kill foreign aid

Irish singer-songwriter and U2 frontman Bono tore into President Donald Trump in an interview with Esquire over the administration's decimation of foreign aid programs.Bono, who has been involved in social and political causes around the world for decades and frequently criticized Trump in the past,...

Bono Is ‘Very Angry’ at Donald Trump’s Budget Cuts to Foreign-Aid Relief

“The most unbelievable carnage imaginable is happening to our work,” the U2 frontman says.

Foreign aid looks good now that it's gone

CAMBRIDGE: “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” When Joni Mitchell sang that line in 1970, she was lamenting the destruction of the environment, but the sentiment applies to many issues. Today, we can add official development assistance (ODA) to the list. For some 80 years, the United States spent more on humanitarian assistance, economic development programmes, and other types of foreign aid than a…