Poll: Majority of Americans believe foreign aid money is “wasted on corruption,” never reaches people in need

Remember that time liberals cried for like two weeks that DOGE was cutting wasteful spending at USAID?

Well, we've got a new poll out showing that the majority of Americans - in a representative democracy, nonetheless - think foreign aid money is "wasted on corruption" and probably never makes it to those in need.

Here's the deets on that polling:

A majority of American voters believe most US foreign aid never reaches people in need, a survey has found, underlining the difficulties of defending an agency targeted by Elon Musk's cost-cutting task force.
A poll by Public First for the Financial Times found that almost 60 per cent of respondents agreed that funds set aside for humanitarian causes were ‘wasted on corruption or administration fees'. Only 12 per cent disagreed with the proposition.

Wow, I would've never guessed that 60% of Americans were outright fascists, but here we are!

We're getting some better context on how much money Americans think we spend on foreign aid as well:

More than 20 per cent thought the US spent a fifth of its annual budget on USAID, when in fact the figure is approximately 1 per cent.
A further 20 per cent thought between 10 and 20 per cent was spent on humanitarian aid, while a similar number of people thought the US spent between 5 and 10 per cent on such programmes.

This could make it seem like this USAID stuff isn't all that important. Until, of course, we consider the fact that they've found tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars in waste within this agency that makes up only 1 percent of our budget.