Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur)
nitter.snopyta.org
Surveys show Americans believe foreign aid is 25% of the federal budget. It’s less than 1%. The public is misinformed about what the US spends money on, which creates an abstract desire to “cut spending” that’s extremely difficult to translate into policy. https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/what-every-american-should-know-about-us-foreign-aid/
  • Owl [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I'm pretty sure that, if you conducted similar polls on a variety of major budget items, then totaled all the percents, you'd get a number well over 100%.