TODAY’S QURAN VERSE

So verily, with every difficulty, there is relief. Quran 94:5

MAGA? Help the world

Are we at our limit with the amount of foreign aid we can provide to people who live in economically disadvantaged countries? Of course we are not, considering that the U.S. only spends roughly 1 percent of its federal budget on foreign aid. So, why the proposed federal aid cut this year by the White House?

The reality that some Americans may miss is that this nation doesn’t spend nearly as much as it can to address and aid dramatic cases of poverty facing millions overseas, and I stand against more money being cut from the federal budget, because when other countries are at a loss, we as Americans are also at a loss.

There is so much financial gain the United States could earn in turn if the government would take more time to

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I believe that the United States should aim more at “Making America Great Again” by putting the plights of other nations further up on its agenda, in order to see its own ambitions come to past.

Lois Charm, Memphis