The New World Order

The past few weeks have seen a major shift in the global superpowers’ ambitions and morals. The ‘America First Movement’ has seen a sharp rise through Biden’s tenure in office coupled with a not-so-smooth election campaign from Kamala Harris, and the divide in America’s political views has grown greater.

Donald Trump, who enters his second presidency, has promised major reform and has signed a flurry of executive orders to keep that promise. Some of these promises have been to cut government spending, and he has given this responsibility to his new favourite asset, Elon Musk.

Elon Musk has proposed cutting more than $2 trillion from US government spending. He has also been very vocal about the national debt in the United States, which currently stands at over $36 trillion. I agree with this problem, and it is certainly a problem in Western nations.

Currently, over $6.5 trillion is spent annually on federal spending in the United States while only taking in around $4.5 trillion. Cuts the new ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ has proposed might affect USAID, an organisation that helps people all around the world with food and humanitarian assistance.

For a nation that is considered by some of its citizens to be the greatest country in the world, it is now reducing its global impact in humanitarian aid to the poorest people in the world. To me, this does not look like a country that wants to remain impactful on the world stage through means other than bullying economically and militarily. With this major change to the America we have all become accustom to it will be important to see which countries step up to fill this gap.