Fact Check: No, Nikki Haley; foreign aid doesn't go to U.S. enemies

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

“The number one thing I would do is stop giving foreign aid to our enemies.”

— Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, in remarks on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Feb. 26

Haley, who recently launched her campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, is a former governor of South Carolina who also spent two years representing the United States at the United Nations during the Trump administration. Bashing foreign aid might be good politics, but one would think someone with her level of experience might have more than a passing familiarity with the basics.

Instead, she suggests that foreign aid goes directly to governments, especially ones with policies that are at odds with the interests of the United States. That’s wrong. The dirty little secret of foreign aid is that most of it never leaves the United States; and it goes right into the pockets of U.S. companies. Some countries receive direct grants of aid, but those are certainly not “enemies.”

In her conversation with Maria Bartiromo of Fox News, Haley ticked off some foreign aid numbers by way of example. She got many of the numbers wrong, and her list of enemies is a bit eclectic, though inclusion on the list is obviously a matter of opinion. We will go through her comments line by line, but first, some foreign policy basics.

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https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/fact-check-no-nikki-haley-foreign-aid-doesnt-go-to-u-s-enemies/

[hlthe2b]

1. AND SHE was former UN Ambassador spewing this?

Good gawd.

[Ray Bruns]

7. Red meat for the rubes. Ignore it.

[Lovie777]

2. Everything that comes out of their mouths is a LIE..............

Christians they are not, and God does not approve.

[3catwoman3]

3. So, Nikki, stopping something that isn't happening shouldn't take too long.

What’s the second thing you would do?

[kysrsoze]

4. We have no problem supporting Saudi Arabia... not to suggest Nikki Haley was talking about them.

I'm sure she never once thought about S.A. before making that statement. However, they are anything but an ally of ours.

[OnDoutside]

5. Rick Wilson said that was the end of her campaign when the

small crowd started chanting Trump, Trump !


And someone then posted this in reply....

Link to tweet

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[republianmushroom]

6. amazing

this coming from a former ambassador to the UN. But under trumps administration
maybe they did give foreign aid to our enemies. Trump sucked up to enough of them.
Knee pads with Putin and love letters from Kim, business with China, given billions form the Saudis.
All of that didn't come without a price tag. IMO