Yes, bingo. On both sides, people have become extremely sick of seeing "billions of dollars sent to X" in the news knowing that we, American citizens, will never receive anything like that amount of aid
21% of the federal budget goes to Social Security (aid)
16% goes to medicare (aid)
10% goes to other health spending (probably at least partially aid -- edit: further research shows that of this, around 90% is some kind of aid)
7% goes to income security (aid)
4% goes to veteran services (aid)
3% goes to education, training, employment, and social services (aid)
1.5% goes to natural resources and environment (aid)
1% goes to community and regional development (aid)
1% goes to foreign aid
We are already spending a huge portion of our budget on various kinds of domestic aid, the majority of it in fact.
Edit to add, data from 2024, source here: https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function
Most of what you describe is not for the average American citizen. But it is the average American citizen who has more credit card debt than ever before, whose wages don't keep pace with inflation, whose ability to buy a home for his family drifts further and further away every year.
Why can't we take that 1% that we send to foreign "allies" (who themselves have better social services and spend more on their populations than we do) and give it to the average American who works hard and makes this country what it is?
But not average Americans, no, don't be silly. It's going back to the 1% and corporations, the "real Americans" who built this country.
Average Americans get nothing. Actually, it's worse than that we get less than nothing; we are losing social welfare programs that keep up alive and healthy. Instead, the plan as far as I can tell is to just let people who depend on those programs die.
Do better.
If the argument is "it's not that much money and it wouldn't help Americans much" then can't people also turn that on it's head? "It's not that much money, so it's not actually doing much real good overseas either"
All these programs are treated like cookie jars and everyone gets a nibble.
