Unlike MAGA, Ronald Reagan understood that foreign aid is vital to America’s national security and economic interests:
“You know the excuses: We can't afford foreign aid anymore, or we're wasting money pouring it into these poor countries, or we can't buy friends…all these excuses are just that—excuses—and they're dead wrong…Is there anyone who believes that we in America would live in as good a world and be as secure if we could turn back the clock and undo the Marshall plan?”