How much money does the US give in foreign aid? A new bill in Congress might change how USAID works.

Today’s Congress is not exactly a well-oiled machine. Even picking a speaker has proven to be incredibly difficult for the House, which took as many floor votes on the matter in 2023 alone as in the previous 36 years combined.
But there’s one issue in which Congress has shown a surprising facility for bipartisan, bicameral cooperation: foreign aid.
Last year saw a historic deal to…