How to Use foreign aid in a Sentence

foreign aid

noun
  • Trump cut foreign aid, children died.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026
  • Many believe too much of our spending is going to foreign aid.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Nowhere has that crisis been more visible than with foreign aid.
    — Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 22 June 2026
  • Arms dealers rushed to the country, backed by billions in foreign aid.
    — Justin Scheck, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The world’s biggest aid donors are pulling back, urging a rethink of foreign aid.
    — Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • There's a great malaise right now within countries about foreign aid and giving.
    — Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • For one, the policy now touches just about all foreign aid.
    — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 23 Jan. 2026
  • And foreign aid amounts to a whopping 1 percent of the budget.
    — Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Quick spending of foreign aid can lead to 'fraud, waste and abuse' Keep an eye on the money.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
  • In some places, the refugees boost local businesses and act as a magnet for foreign aid.
    — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
  • And foreign aid, like all of politics since the beginning, is all about quid pro quo.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • And foreign aid, like all of politics since the beginning, is all about quid pro quo.
    — John Kass, Twin Cities, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The group has slashed hundreds of thousands of jobs and hollowed out foreign aid programs.
    — Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Not everyone believes the future of foreign aid is quite so bleak.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Trump said, adding that foreign aid to Honduras and other nations is at stake.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Afghanistan was a poor country before the Taliban took over, propped up by foreign aid.
    — NBC News, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Epstein files, national debt, foreign aid and more.
    — Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Trump this morning signaled on Twitter that at least part of it could come from cuts to foreign aid.
    — Stephen Koff, cleveland.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The Taliban itself has since appealed for more foreign aid.
    — Chad De Guzman, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
  • And there's a lot of wariness to continue sending foreign aid.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • In the other, the court slowed the effort to block the release of up to $2 billion in foreign aid.
    — Mark Sherman, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The law passed Congress in April as part of a larger foreign aid package.
    — Julia Shapero, The Hill, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Some Americans think of foreign aid as nothing more than money down the drain.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Perhaps the best way to understand where the foreign aid world is, as of late March, is through the stages of grief.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Trump floated the threat about foreign aid in a tweet early Tuesday morning.
    — The Washington Post, AL.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Does foreign aid have an impact on violence - on wars, on street fights, on random attacks?
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 19 May 2026
  • Most of the cuts are to foreign aid and climate projects, along with the CPB funding.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 12 June 2025
  • Then, the foreign aid groups who promised all sorts of help moved on as Ebola spread into more populous towns.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Liberia is highly dependent on foreign aid as well as remittances.
    — Eden Harris, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Relief teams from around the world are also mobilizing help, and pledges of foreign aid are pouring in.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 26 June 2026

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