Policy issues

What might have begun as a well-intentioned initiative to help poor communities has morphed into something antithetical to the values, principles, and history of America.

As this report shows, many NGOs facilitating migration across the southern border, contributing to the abuse of our asylum system, and even incentivizing human trafficking and smuggling by the cartels receive a majority of their funding from the government, with some obtaining well over 90 percent of their annual revenue from U.S. taxpayers.

In spite of the complaints of naysayers and so-called free-trade advocates, it should be remembered that President Trump is not being radical. He is merely treating the world as the world has treated the United States.

The Functional Government Initiative and the Center for Renewing America identify at least a trillion dollars’ worth of divisive, identity-based programs and policies among the federal thicket and make suggestions that could ensure they don’t come back.