U.S. Foreign Assistance By Country | Searchable government website by country, year, implementing agency (plus my comments)

ForeignAssistance.gov ^ | 12/19/2024 | ForeignAssistance.gov

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Note that the State Department's Database was last updated September 19, 2024, and Biden committed additional funds or disbursements after that date.

According to the Council on Foreign Relations, total American support for Ukraine was $175 billion as of April 2024. This was prior to a discovery of a clerical error which brought support to $189 billion by July. Since then Biden committed more funding which is separately reported by the White House, State Department, Defense department.

Foreign Aid is only one type of assistance given to Ukraine. The portion of the aid given the Ukraine in the form of Foreign Aid for years 2022 through 2024 is more than the 42 Billion dollars ($41,841,824,867) shown at the linked webpage.

Foreign Aid to Ukraine currently shown on website:

2022    $18,296,351,811
2023    $17,193,710,403
2024    $  6,351,762,653

So a significant amount of data for 2024 is missing. Given the level of activity (fighting, collapse of infrastructure) in Ukraine and the increasingly desparate circumstances facing the Ukrainian government, I would expect 2024 US Foreign Aid to be higher or at least approximately at the same levels as 2022 and 2023.

It looks like the breakdown showing the percentage of Foreign Aid contributing to military aid (versus Economic aid) is likely wrong (incomplete data entry) too, because it indicates 2022 military spending was 40% and in 2024 it's 0%. There's a message box indicating the total Foreign Assistance for Ukraine was only partially entered for 2024. However, there are other sources for military aid to Ukraine (Defense Department, White House drawdowns etc.)

Assertions by Zelensky and the MSM that the Ukraine is winning or can win are meaningless given that the United States pays the Ukraine's government salaries, pensions and emergency services, much of the electrical grid is gone, and due to Putin's 'electrical switching' attack any of the electronics plugged into the grid while under those attacks (cell phones to factory equipment) were destroyed too.

President Trump recently said that (paraphrasing), "You hear 'Save the Ukraine!' but then you see entire cities without a single building still standing. That's a 110 year reconstruction effort."

Manpower to support industries has certainly been impacted by the loss of fighting men and refugees leaving the country. Recently Ukrainian pilots tried to call attention to the fact that Zelensky had ordered an entire MIG fighter jet mechanics group and their pilots to fight on the front lines, which likely indicates the low level of staffing for soldiers, and perhaps the absence of remaining MIG war planes.

For these reasons I paid particular attention to the MACRO ECONOMIC support portion of the Foreign Aid awarded the Ukraine. Note this is listed separately from 'HUMANITARIAN AID' and 'BUDGET SUPPORT.'

2022 $  5.8B     - Macroeconomic Support
2023 $14.4B     - Macroeconomic Support
2024 $  3.9B     - Macroeconomic Support [data missing]

I will put a portion of the data for Ukraine below for  the year 2023 as it is more complete than year 2024 data, but you can use the page to search other countries/years of interest.

https://foreignassistance.gov/cd/ukraine/2024/obligations/0

FOREIGN AID 2023

 

I'll put some comparative data (funding for Ukraine versus Israel etc.) in post #2 below.

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Sadly I don't see any DOMESTIC RELIEF pages for those in Ohio, North Carolina, Hawaii, California....

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How Much U.S. Aid Is Going to Ukraine?
Council on Foreign Relations

Article by Jonathan Masters and Will Merrow

Last updated September 27, 2024 5:00 pm (EST)

EXCERPTS:

Since the war began, the U.S. Congress has voted through five bills that have provided Ukraine with ongoing aid, doing so most recently in April 2024. The total budget authority under these bills—the “headline” figure often cited by news media—is $175 billion. The historic sums are helping a broad set of Ukrainian people and institutions, including refugees, law enforcement, and independent radio broadcasters, though most of the aid has been military-related. Dozens of other countries, including most members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU), are also providing large aid packages to Ukraine.

 

[Jumper]

In 2014 VP Biden bragged about getting the Ukrainian prosecutor fired after holding 1B in funds hostage. It was that moment I turned against Ukraine. That was the moment Corruption captured the USG openly and Obama Admin flaunted it in the world’s face.

Trump has repaid a bit of the humiliation Ukraine helped to visit upon him. Ukraine is literally finished. Even their chief intel guru said yesterday Ukraine will not survive to summer. Without the US oaying pensions, public workers and military salaries, Ukraine Govt cannot pay their citizens.

Ukrainian is a NATO Proxy masquerading as a democracy, complete with a Nazi dictatorship.

[Liz]

Whore-monger and crackhead, Hunter Biden, got paid $50
grand a month by Ukrainian oil company, Burisma.........

Hunter never set foot in Ukraine the entire time.

The VP’s son was the crime syndicate’s “front man”
to give corrupt Burisma a semblance of credibility.

In June 2020, a confidential informant, Alexander Smirnov, told the FBI that Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky had said he had been coerced into paying Hunter Biden a $5 million bribe, as well as a $5 million bribe to “another Biden,” to ensure Shokin would be fired.

[Liz]

Hunter Biden’s $million per year employee on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma
Hunter Biden never visited Ukraine for company business during his five year tenure

By Polina Ivanova, Maria Tsvetkova, Ilya Zhegulev and Luke Baker
October 18, 2019, reuters,com

KIEV (Reuters) - During his time on the board of one of Ukraine’s largest natural gas companies, Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden, was regarded as a helpful non-executive director with a powerful name, according to people familiar with Biden’s role at the company.

Biden’s role at Burisma Holdings Ltd has come under intense scrutiny following unsupported accusations by U.S. President Donald Trump that Joe Biden improperly tried to help his son’s business interests in Ukraine.

Interviews with more than a dozen people, including executives and former prosecutors in Ukraine, paint a picture of a director who provided advice on legal issues, corporate finance and strategy during a five-year term on the board, which ended in April of this year.

Biden never visited Ukraine for company business during that time, according to three of the people. They also said that his presence on the board didn’t protect the company from its most serious challenge: a series of criminal investigations launched by Ukrainian authorities against its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, a multimillionaire former minister of ecology and natural resources.

The allegations concern tax violations, money-laundering and licences given to Burisma during the period where Zlochevsky was a minister.

Hunter Biden, 49 years old, has denied wrongdoing. In a public statement on Oct 13, his lawyer George Mesires said: “Despite extensive scrutiny, at no time has any law enforcement agency, either domestic or foreign, alleged that Hunter engaged in wrongdoing at any point during his five-year term.”

In an interview with ABC News aired Tuesday, Hunter Biden said in retrospect it may have been poor judgment to join Burisma’s board while his father was vice president, but added: “Did I make a mistake based upon some ethical lapse? Absolutely not.”

Biden, in the interview added that he didn’t discuss his business dealings in Ukraine with his father, other than one brief exchange in which his father told him “I hope you know what you’re doing.”

A lawyer for Hunter Biden didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Joe Biden has also denied any wrongdoing, saying he called for the removal of then-chief prosecutor Viktor Shokin in 2016 because of his ineffectiveness in tackling corruption in Ukraine, a widespread problem that both the United States and the European Union had long highlighted.

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[pierrem15]

Most of the recent aid is through DOD, Army, etc. That’s military equipment.

There are a few ‘redacted’ items totaling about $1 billion. I am very curious what that is and who got it. If money is getting kicked back to the Dems or embezzled, that’s where it is.

[Liz]

Biden and the Democrats are OK with arming foreign countries but grabbing guns from Americans is an obsession w/ them. The same “Congress” that gleefully tramples 2A rights, is hell bent on supplying weapons to foreign countries.

Not content w/ the mega billions already in his pocket, Zelensky now says
he wants US tax dollars to Ukraine “according to the Israeli model”......here’s what he means:

Congressional Research Service
US Foreign aid to Israel
60 page detailed report

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL33222/44

The concerned Israeli lobby made sure Congress is required by law to ensure that U.S. military aid in the Middle East region doesn’t damage Israel’s military superiority over its neighbors. That requirement enjoys broad bipartisan support and has served as a benchmark for ensuring Israel receives robust U.S. support.

Biden keeps gaslighting Americans about the “need” for
American foreign aid tax dollars to Ukraine and Israel.
Here’s why they DONT need it:

About $113.1 billion in tax dollars were authorized in 2022 for Ukraine, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Most of it–about $67.1 billion–was defense-related. The other $46 billion included:
<><>$26.9 billion for economic support;
<><>$7.9 billion for international disaster assistance;
<><>$6.6 billion in assistance for refugees;
<><>$1.5 billion for assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia;
<><>plus $3.1 billion for other non-defense spending.

US tax dollars
<><>paid salaries of Ukraine’s 618,000 educators, 517,000 health workers, and 56,500 first responders
<><>sustained critical healthcare services,
<><>met pension responsibilities for 9.8 million Ukranians,
<><>assisted 1.3 million internally displaced persons,
<><>provided housing assistance to 4.1 million people,
<><>provided social assistance to 240,000 low-income families
<><>subsidized 480,000 persons with disabilities,
<><>bought supplies for farmers,
<><>financed finding markets for small business.

Backstory: Since 1973, Israel has received more than $120 billion US tax
dollars in MILITARY assistance alone, including “three special aid” packages.
<><>billions for signing the Israel-Egypt peace treaty
<><>billions for Israel’s withdrawal from the Sinai.
<><>billions for redeployment of Israeli forces
<><>rebuilding Israeli air bases in the Negev cost $5 billion.

Besides weaponry, Israel also receives economic and humanitarian foreign aid, which supports broad economic development and sociopolitical stability and can include non-military support related to the country’s pressing security needs.

Military aid from US taxpayers has blanketed Israel over the years. They have more than enough resources, now, to nail Hamas and Hezbollah. Wealthy Israel has very low debt, and actually had a budget surplus this year, while the US is $33 trillion in debt, a debt which future generations are saddled with.

During the 2024 election year, Biden blanketed Israel w/ $17.9 billion tax dollars in one year alone, saying, “Nobody has done more for Tsrael than T have.”

[thinden]

Hussein & brandon regime’s looting of America makes the Clinton Foundation looting look like small taters??

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On Dec. 30, 2024, the Biden DoD announced additional security US tax dollar assistance to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs as part of the surge of security tax dollars assistance the President directed to put Ukraine in the best possible position.

This includes the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) package of tax-financed US weapons, which has an estimated value of $1.25 billion, to provide Ukraine additional capabilities to meet its most urgent needs, including: missiles for air defense; munitions for rocket systems and artillery; and anti-tank weapons.

In addition, DoD announced an approximately $1.22 billion Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) tax dollar package to provide Ukraine with additional air defense, air-to-ground, Unmanned Aerial Systems, and other tax dollar capabilities to fight “Russian aggression.”

This is the Biden Administration’s twenty-third aid package and seventy-third tranche of military equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.

Immediate Release
Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine
Dec. 30, 2024 |

Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced additional security assistance US tax dollars to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs as part of the surge of security assistance the President directed to put Ukraine in the best possible position.

This includes the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) package, which has an estimated value of $1.25 billion, to provide Ukraine additional capabilities to meet its most urgent needs, including: missiles for air defense; munitions for rocket systems and artillery; and anti-tank weapons.

In addition, DoD announced an approximately $1.22 billion Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) package to provide Ukraine with additional air defense, air-to-ground, Unmanned Aerial Systems, and other capabilities to fight Russian aggression.

US tax dollar outlays in this announcement include:

• Munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS);
• HAWK air defense munitions;
• Stinger missiles;
• Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (c-UAS) munitions;
• Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
• 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition;
• Air-to-ground munitions;
• High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs);
• Unmanned Aerials Systems (UAS);
• Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems;
• Tube-launched, Optically guided, Wire-tracked (TOW) missiles;
• Small arms and ammunition and grenades;
• Demolitions equipment and munitions;
• Secure communications equipment;
• Commercial satellite imagery services;
• Medical equipment;
• Clothing and individual equipment; and
• Spare parts, maintenance and sustainment support, ancillary equipment, services, training, and transportation.

This is the Biden Administration’s twenty-third USAI tax dollar package and seventy-third tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.

The United States continues to work together with some 50 Allies and partners through the Ukraine Defense Contact Group and its associated Capability Coalitions to provide the support Ukraine needs to prevail in its fight against “Russian aggression.”

[Herakles]

Foreign assistance to North Carolina, $0

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In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled U.S. Foreign Assistance By Country | Searchable government website by country, year, implementing agency (plus my comments), pierrem15 wrote:

Most of the recent aid is through DOD, Army, etc. That’s military equipment.

There are a few ‘redacted’ items totaling about $1 billion. I am very curious what that is and who got it. If money is getting kicked back to the Dems or embezzled, that’s where it is.

According to Rubio's memo, Foreign Aid contains significant military financing, that's why he excluded Israel and Egypt. Here's a quote from the memo (part 12a) :

. (U) The Secretary of State has approved waivers of the pause under the Executive Order and this ALDAC, subject to further review, with respect to:

(a) foreign military financing for Israel and Egypt and administrative expenses, including salaries, necessary to administer foreign military financing.

It's not negligble, particularly when Ukraine is losing so badly. This is a loss of billlions in military funding as Ukraine dies slowly. There's no point in putting more American money into a lost war; let there be peace. Zelensky lied when he said Ukraine would not be impacted by this freeze.

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USAFacts

https://usafacts.org › articles › how-much-does-the-us-give-other-countries-in-military-aid

How much does the US give other countries in military ...In 2020, the US spent $51.1 billion in foreign aid, which makes up 1% of the federal budget. Military aid accounted for 23% of foreign aid spending in 2020. Examples of military aid include funds for training or paying a country's military, as well as sending weapons, vehicles, and other military equipment.

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Foreign Aid to Ukraine may be cut from other departments (DoD, Treasury, Dept of ENergy) as well, given that Zelensky ignored all of Trump's warnings to negotiate with Putin. I'm thinking Trump might apply the brakes until Zelensky moves to the negotiating table.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-foreign-aid-by-country

Several governmental agencies provide foreign aid, including the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Energy, and the Peace Corps, just to name a few.As a rule, foreign aid falls into one of two categories: military aid and humanitarian

[pierrem15]

My point is that once the aid is put under DOD's authority, I'm not sure State has control over it any longer.

The aid under the Camp David accords might also be structured differently to begin with, although why we are still paying 50 years after the agreement is a good question.

Even if they are not skimming off these aid programs, the problem is they build up bureaucratic, domestic, and foreign constituencies like barnacles that are difficult to control. It's even worse when new legislation layers program over program and multiple bureaucracies build up over time so no one agency head or section even knows what happens to all the money.

I'm not even sure why military aid even goes through State at all since it's one of the most anti-American parts of the government, always ready to cut a deal that emboldens our enemies and gives away US jobs. Plus foreign constituencies have far more influence over US diplomats than any other part of the US government.