The poll of 2,022 voters showed Republicans and President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again base were skeptical of foreign aid before getting more details

Nearly all Americans overestimated by far how much Washington spent on such programmes, with over a third thinking they accounted for 20% of the annual US budget

The poll of 2,022 voters showed Republicans and President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again base were skeptical of foreign aid before getting more details

Walk into any diner in Pennsylvania and ask what percentage of the federal budget goes to foreign aid. The actual number, before the 2025 cuts, was 1%.