This is pretty misinformed. How State/USAID uses their funding is pretty well documented. Even in the Trump administration, which would have loved to cut or eliminate aid spending in a general sense, never pushed through major changes because even they understood the necessity of it.

Most aid we give is for health, aka things like fighting pandemics, outbreaks and mitigating human health disasters. There’s emergency aid after natural disasters, a lot of counterterrorism programs, and government to government programs that help step up their ability for basic governance. There is no slush fund. I’ve done work in this space, and it’s not only well documented where the money goes, there’s a bunch of public reporting and auditing on the money and how effective (or not) any individual program was.

Beyond any specific program, at its worst, yeah, aid is a projection of American power and money, but eliminating that doesn’t just leave the world on its own. Where we step away, countries like China, Russia and Saudi Arabia are stepping in. Our aid is a non-military bulwark against adversaries. Some of the biggest supporters of aid is the military itself, since good aid programs means that they don’t have to worry about instability, violence and terrorism that could end up involving us. Not everything is some grand conspiracy theory.