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/
Foreign aid is when the tax money of poor people in rich countries are given to the rich people of poor countries to protect themselves from their own poor people
Foreign aid is when the tax money of poor people in rich countries are given to the rich people of poor countries to protect themselves from their own poor people
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