{"id":71925,"date":"2026-04-16T13:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/trump-officials-urge-other-countries-to-join-new-trade-over-aid-push\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:54:45","slug":"trump-officials-urge-other-countries-to-join-new-trade-over-aid-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/trump-officials-urge-other-countries-to-join-new-trade-over-aid-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump officials urge other countries to join new \u2018trade over aid\u2019 push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US calls free-market capitalism \u2018surest path to prosperity\u2019 and seeks to forgo direct aid to developing countries<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/16\/middle-east-crisis-live-iran-war-news-us-trump-ceasefire-deal-lebanon-israel-oil-sanctions-latest-updates\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Trump administration has moved to formally enlist foreign governments in a sweeping reorientation of global development policy, directing American diplomats worldwide to seek official support for a \u201ctrade over aid\u201d declaration before its introduction at the United Nations later this month. This would mean a move away from direct aid to poor nations in favor of increased trade, led by private companies.<\/p>\n<p>Principal deputy spokesperson at the state department Tommy Pigott confirmed the initiative on Wednesday, framing it as a rejection of what he called a failed aid model. \u201cThe idea that trade and free market capitalism is the surest path to prosperity has been proven by the facts and by history,\u201d Pigott said, adding that those calling for \u201caid not trade\u201d were \u201creally arguing for lining the pockets of a corrupt NGO industrial complex\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/16\/trump-officials-foreign-aid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US calls free-market capitalism \u2018surest path to prosperity\u2019 and seeks to forgo direct aid to developing countries Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates The Trump administration has moved to formally enlist foreign governments in a sweeping reorientation of global development policy, directing American diplomats worldwide to seek official support for a \u201ctrade over aid\u201d declaration &#8230; <a title=\"Trump officials urge other countries to join new \u2018trade over aid\u2019 push\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/trump-officials-urge-other-countries-to-join-new-trade-over-aid-push\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump officials urge other countries to join new \u2018trade over aid\u2019 push\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}