US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has dismissed accusations that Washington was left unable to help in the Myanmar earthquake due to the Donald Trump administration’s shuttering of its humanitarian aid agency.
Asked by the BBC why the US had not meaningfully responded, as it routinely has to past such disasters, Rubio said “we are not the government of the world”.
… Rubio said the US had to balance global humanitarian rescue work with “other needs” and “other priorities” that were in the US national interests.
“There’s a lot of other rich countries in the world, they should all be pitching in.
