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Pendulum of GOP Foreign Policy Is Swinging Away From the Neoconservatives of the Reagan Era

After Republicans vote in the Senate against a foreign aid bill they previously supported, Trump’s ‘America first’ foreign policy seems to be gaining steam.

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President Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, on June 12, 1987. Via Wikimedia Commons
M.J. KOCH
M.J. KOCH

The pendulum of the Republican Party appears, as a chaotic Congress argues over foreign military aid, to be swinging toward “strategic self-discipline” in foreign policy and away from internationalism. 

The Senate appears to be moving forward with a new aid package of $95 billion to Ukraine, Israel, and other American allies after voting to block a measure that would have paired foreign security assistance with new border restrictions.

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M.J. KOCH
M.J. KOCH

Ms. Koch graduated in 2023 from Harvard College, where she was the editor-in-chief of the student weekly, the Harvard Independent. She reports on issues of higher education and foreign policy at The New York Sun.

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