What does it actually mean when the U.S. sends $X billion to another country?

Question

What actually happens? Does the foreign government get a lump sum or do we send payments? Where does that money come from?

Also how tf do we do this? Aren’t we trillions of dollars in debt?

In: Economics

Answer 1

It is more like store credit than cash. And full sticker price applies, no discounts.

> Aren’t we trillions of dollars in debt?

Trillions of **US** dollars. We just keep printing them. So far, it works.