Is giving Foreign Aid legal, according to Constitution?

[elwoodblues]

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ratified treaties become supreme law of the land



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so look to the US UN membership and such for the answer



UN membership =/= treaty

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semantics i guess

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=18828

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New U.N. treaty ratified quietly
Posted: December 9, 2000
1:00 a.m. Eastern

The U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification was ratified by the U.S. Senate on October 18,

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It's not just semantics. There are UN Treaties and those are/would be the supreme law of the land. Membership in the UN itself is not based on a treaty so we cannot derive some general "foreign aid" power based on UN Membership

[iron81]

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It's not just semantics. There are UN Treaties and those are/would be the supreme law of the land. Membership in the UN itself is not based on a treaty so we cannot derive some general "foreign aid" power based on UN Membership

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The 50 nations represented at the conference signed the Charter of the United Nations two months later on 26 June. Poland... The UN came into existence on 24 October 1945, after the Charter had been ratified by the five permanent members of the Security Council

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[PLOlover]

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It's not just semantics. There are UN Treaties and those are/would be the supreme law of the land. Membership in the UN itself is not based on a treaty so we cannot derive some general "foreign aid" power based on UN Membership

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my point is that the US has probably signed some UN aid treaty where the US is obligated in some way, not just to a single nation, but to many nations.