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Foreign policy includes aid for our friends

Is foreign aid legal. (Constitutional?)

No matter how many times I read the Constitution I can not find any part of it that justifies giving money to foreign countries.

It is certainly way outside the ennumerated powers of the Congress.

It doesn't seem to fit into the commerce clause loophole that Liberals so love. (I don't agree that the commerce clause acutlly permits most of waht it's used to justify. That's another poor Supreme Court decision by the same guy who laid the foundation for the other horrible one (Roe V. Wade) -- (that is S.C. Justice William O. Douglas), but that's a larger issue.

There is some argument that commerce between States requires Federal expenditures but Ukraine and other foreign beneficiaries of US Aid are not "within and between the States".

It's all illegal, foreign aid, in my opinion. Like much of FDR's Revolution we just accept it, because we are used to it. But it does not accord with the actual highest law of the land.

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No matter how many times I read the Constitution I can not find any part of it that justifies giving money to foreign countries.

Too late to ask your questions.

The only spending that is authorized under the constitution, is for defense. Welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, subsidized housing and just about everything else, are not constitutional. Even the IRS and social security are not authorized.

With defense, comes its sister mandate, which is foreign aid. Foreign aid is an attempt to keep foreign problems away from our shores, and it would be a lot less expensive to keep the enemy at bay than to have to fight him here at home.