The United States loses 80 to 100 billion dollars a year to support a country that is not one of us.
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Badlands MediaOct 15, 2026
The claim that the US loses $80-100 billion a year supporting a country is contradicted: the quoted figure was a trade-deficit claim about Canada, not aid, and total US foreign assistance in the sources ($47.3B disbursed in FY2025, $11.8B disbursed in FY2026, about $50-56B appropriated) is far below $80-100B, let alone for one country.
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What was said
… Their car companies are all moving into America. They're all coming in, otherwise they have to pay massive tariffs. They'll end up being the 51st state because it's the only way it works. You know, we don't need them, but they need us, and why should we be losing 80, 90, 100 billion dollars a year to support a country that isn't one of us? So they'll be doing something, just like Greenland. You heard about Greenland? Oh, it's terrible. It's so terrible what President Trump has done. …
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Contradicts. Pew's analysis of federal data reports US foreign assistance disbursed at $47.3 billion in fiscal 2025, and Devex reports just $11.8 billion disbursed in fiscal 2026, both well below $80-100 billion a year.[4][5]
Contradicts. GAO reports Congress appropriated roughly $56 billion for foreign assistance in FY2025 and $50 billion in FY2026, and the OECD reports US official development assistance of $29 billion in 2025, so the total US aid envelope cannot reach $80-100 billion a year.[2][6]
Contradicts. Congress, not the president, appropriates foreign assistance, and the foreign-aid data shows no single country near the $80-100 billion scale; the post's framing of a support payment to Canada has no support in the aid records.[1][3]
Context. The $80-100 billion figure in the coverage is a trade deficit Trump cited with Canada as justification for tariffs, not a sum spent on support; the coverage notes that Canada-US trade accounting is complicated and the simple deficit framing is misleading.[7][8]
Sources
8 sources: 1 fact-checker, 2 primary, 5 not rated
- 1Have Democrats or Republicans given more aid to Israel? ...snopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2GAO-26-108607, Foreign Assistance: Agencies Made ...gao.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 3U.S. Foreign Assistance By Agencyforeignassistance.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 4U.S. foreign aid is plunging in second Trump administrationpewresearch.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 5What did the US spend on aid in 2026? - Devexdevex.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 6Development Co‑operation Profiles: United Statesoecd.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 7Trump again calls Canada '51st US state,' says 'it's the only way it works'nationpress.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 8Trump again calls Canada 51st US state, says 'it's the only way it works'lokmattimes.com · not rated · cited for: context
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