U.S. President Donald Trump officially stopped all funding through the USAID program as press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the spending of the previous governments “ridiculous”. Even Elon Musk, who helms D.O.G.E called U.S. foreign aid a “crazy waste of your tax money!” Several countries have received billions in foreign aid from the previous U.S. governments and Trump is now putting the spending in check.

In this article, we will highlight the countries that have received the highest foreign aid from the U.S. From Ukraine to Israel and Somalia, almost all countries from every continent have received U.S. foreign aid from previous governments.

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List of Countries That Receive Highest U.S. Foreign Aid

In 2023 alone, Ukraine received the highest U.S. foreign aid topping more than $17 billion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy steadily took billions from the Biden administration to arm its soldiers to fight Russia. The second in line to receive billions of military funds since 2023 is America’s closest ally Israel.

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After the escalated conflict between Israel and Palestine in October 2023, Israel received more than $3 billion in U.S. foreign military aid. It received arms, ammunition, and aircraft to help fight Hamas and other Palestinian fighters and terrorist organizations. Even up until the last days of the Biden administration, the White House kept on releasing funds to foreign countries.

Below is the list of the top 15 countries that have received the highest foreign aid from the previous U.S. governments:

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All the U.S. foreign aid comes from the taxpayers who work day in and out to meet their basic needs. Tesla CEO Elon Musk questioned on X whether other countries collect taxes from citizens and pay for the benefit of the U.S. Data shows that the money was sent to mostly promote pronouns and binary gender language, among other initiatives.