Thanks to The Post’s Adam Taylor for covering our work challenging Trump’s foreign policy and the confidential deals the administration is negotiating in place of the health aid it destroyed. We have helped countries stand up and call for better terms, and the deals are beginning to change. We do a lot of press, but this article focuses on our recent work and I thought I’d share. – Peter
Washinton Post: Trump administration’s secrecy on health deals alarms experts, governments
A dearth of information has been disclosed about the agreements, fueling speculation that the “America First” approach to foreign aid is exploitative.
April 6, 2026 / Adam Taylor
“…Public Citizen, a government watchdog group, has brought a lawsuit demanding access to some of the administration’s global health agreements, arguing that the State Department’s failure to produce the records in response to a Freedom of Information Act request is “unlawful.”
“The agreements’ public disclosure is essential “to understanding the new foreign aid structure” being built by the State Department and what the United States “expects, or extracts, in return,” said Peter Maybarduk, director of Public Citizen’s access to medicines group.
“… Public Citizen’s Maybarduk said that the strategy seems to be “divide and conquer the partners of the United States.” The Trump administration, he said, “is treating its negotiating partners as hostiles, and treating health aid a bit like conflict, as though every bit of U.S. negotiating advantage must be preserved through secrecy.”
Read Adam’s excellent article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/06/trump-global-health-deals/
These weeks, beyond the dramatics of the proposed border wall, Brazil inaugurated a president of even worse impulses, a man publicly nostalgic for the days recent in his country’s memory when one could simply torture the opposition. These are our discontents. 
