Obama’s Foreign Aid Price Tag to Exceed $50 Billion

Monday, March 2, 2009 8:36 PM

By: David A. Patten

President Obama’s 2010 budget seeks to double U.S. aid payments to other countries despite a $1.75 trillion deficit and the worst recession in over a quarter of a century.

Obama’s landmark proposal heralds a massive increase in the size of government, and “puts the United States on a path to double U.S. foreign assistance,â€