Observed arrival · 2026-10-08
A Foreign Aid Explorer With Its Caveats in View
An interactive explorer charts U.S. foreign assistance by country and year, with controls for accounting basis, inflation adjustment, and an optional arms-sales overlay.
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- The page says its nine-row arms overlay passed both a sum check and a plausibility check; other rows were excluded over misaligned text.
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The controls switch among appropriated, obligated, and disbursed figures, nominal or constant-2025 dollars, and annual or range totals. The page defines obligations as commitments and disbursements as money moved, noting that disbursements start in FY2001 while obligations extend to FY1946. It also warns that ForeignAssistance.gov revises closed-year data, with Ukraine seeing especially large late-arriving disbursements.
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