Edited sentence: The United States wanted to avoid the political influence aid has on the policies of the recipient nation.The report "Transforming the Aid Environment" argues that the "way in which the United States perceives foreign aid is perhaps best understood in the way in which the country acts when they are the recipient nation.There is no reason for not accepting the available resources, other than that aid is a political tool.When other countries offered the United States $854 million in cash and oil as foreign aid to help the areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina, they merely accepted 4.7% of the total aid offered, the rest went uncollected