Obama’s Radical Climate Change Agenda Driving U.S. Foreign Aid Policy | The Heritage Foundation

Obama’s Radical Climate Change Agenda Driving U.S. Foreign Aid Policy | The Heritage Foundation

President Obama and his congressional allies’ domestic climate change agenda—“cap and trade”—failed in the last Congress due to extensive opposition to its costly regulations and barriers to growth. Having failed to enact draconian climate change legislation domestically, however, President Obama has quietly shifted some of these efforts overseas by funneling millions of U.S. foreign aid dollars to left-wing causes in poor countries, whose populations largely live on less than $1 a day.