How is the United States able to give billions to other countries when we are trillions in debt and how does it get approved?

Question

How is the United States able to give billions to other countries when we are trillions in debt and how does it get approved?

In: Economics

Answer 1

Don’t think of it as giving, think of it as buying popularity overseas

Other than that – giving a country a billion dollars of military aid is generally investing a billion dollars into your own economy – the work is done by people on the US who spend that money in the US and pay taxes in the US.