Most Americans Say US Foreign Aid Is ‘Wasted On Corruption,’ Survey Reveals

A majority of Americans think that U.S. foreign aid is being wasted, according to a new survey from the Financial Times.

Of those surveyed, more than 60% believe that funding set aside for humanitarian aid was being “wasted on corruption or administration fees,” according to the survey published Monday. The survey’s findings comes amid growing scrutiny surrounding wasteful spending across several federal agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

USAID has come under fire recently amid growing reports of the agency wasting billions of taxpayer dollars to disburse funds for various costly international programs, some of which had high risk of ending up in the Taliban’s hands. The fate of USAID is currently unclear after the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)’s Elon Muskannounced on Feb. 3 that he and President Donald Trump had agreed to overturn the structure of the government agency.

“It’s a completely unresponsive agency. It’s supposed to respond to policy directives with the State Department, and it refuses to do so,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio