Traditional foreign aid generally falls under two subfunctions, international  development and humanitarian assistance (151) and international security  assistance (152). While polls show that the Americans tend to overestimate the  share of US spending devoted to foreign aid, the reality is that less than 1 percent  of the ...
Feb 10, 2015 ... What's more, our ignorance colors the way we think about foreign spending. Fifty- six percent of the poll respondents thought the U.S. spends too much on foreign  aid. Once they were told that the U.S. spends less than 1 percent of the federal  budget on foreign aid, only 28 percent still thought the nation was ...
Oct 18, 2016 ... less that $10M in assistance. $25.6B. $16.8B ... At the top of this page, you'll see  what a tiny fraction of the entire federal budget is devoted to foreign assistance —  just about 1 percent. As we ... Unsurprisingly, more than half the respondents  thought the United States was spending too much on foreign aid.
Nov 9, 2016 ... "Do you know that amazing surveys show that many of our citizens think we  devote a full quarter or even a third of our federal budget to foreign aid?" Kerry  said on Oct. 26, ... In January 2016, Kaiser found that only 3 percent of Americans  correctly estimated spending at 1 percent or less of total spending.
Apr 14, 2017 ... Cutting foreign aid will not solve our nation's budget problems, but it will impact  the efforts of local leaders around the world making positive changes in their ...  When told that the US spends less than 1 percent of the federal budget on foreign  aid, 60 percent of Americans think that we should preserve that ...
Foreign aid "is less than 1 percent of our federal budget."