claim: "foreign aid makes up about 1 percent of our entire budget."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: cgd's rethinking us development policy initiative examines the us approach  to international development. while much of cgd's research focuses on  development beyond aid, foreign assistance is an important, highly visible  instrument of us foreign and development policies.
evidence_2: mar 11, 2016 ... "i'm against any sort of wasting of money on foreign aid, but it's less than 1  percent of our federal budget," rubio said. "we can't just continue to tip-toe  around this ... but you still have hundreds of billions of dollars of deficit that you're  going to have to make up." we wanted to fact-check whether foreign aid is ...
evidence_3: 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 ...
evidence_4: oct 8, 2017 ... how much of the united states federal budget goes to foreign aid? ... in reality,  foreign assistance makes up less than 1 percent of the u.s. budget. ... the men  and women of the state department and usaid deserve our full commitment to  their safety and to providing the tools they need to advance our ...
evidence_5: oct 18, 2016 ... 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 ..... read these  comments: subscribe to our weekly newsletter dedicated to the best  conversations and comments on the washington post. sign me up. thanks ...