The day after the launch of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network’s New Day, New Way proposal, U.S. House Representatives Betty McCollum, Christopher Shays, John Tierney, and Frank Wolf introduced a bipartisan resolution that calls foreign assistance a critical instrument of U.S. national security and urges the U.S. to make modernizing foreign assistance a national priority. CGD senior policy analyst Sheila Herrling discusses the resolution in a new blog and says there is growing momentum to elevate global development and to revamp the U.S. foreign assistance apparatus. She concludes that a surge in attention and resources for global development and diplomacy--the non-military aspects of U.S. global engagement--could be the best investments in America’s future and hopes more congressional champions start lining up.
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