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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I looked it up. US AID's budget is bigger than Malta's GDP, and similar to Bosnia's GDP.[/quote]
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Thank you for playing the statistics game "number versus percentage"

Yes USAIDs budget in terms of a number is big, but in terms of percent of the total US budget, it is small.  US foreign aid is typically 1-2% of the federal budget.

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/breakdown-foreign-aid-obligations

The US is actually among the least generous donors globally as a percentage of GDP, even though that means because we are a wealthy country we give a lot in terms of absolute number.

" The U.S. is both generous and penurious—it provides [b]more official government assistance than any other country, but considerably less as a portion of our national income.[/b] There is a broad international commitment (to which the U.S. has never pledged) that wealthy countries should annually provide 0.7% of GDP to assist developing countries. For 2023, five countries—Norway, Luxembourg, Sweden, Germany, and Denmark—met or exceeded that benchmark. The average for all wealthy nations is around 0.3%, with the U.S. ranking at the bottom."

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-is-us-foreign-assistance/#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20is%20both%20generous,that%20year%20was%20$47%20billion.[/quote]

These statistics are exceedingly misleading because they don’t consider things like U.S. security assistance.[/quote]

Security assistance and foreign assistance are two separate things. USAID does NOT do security assistance, so for those who don’t like tax dollars going to security assistance, you need to write to your representatives and ask that those agencies funding be cut.[/quote]

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