Author: Hudson Crozier
Over $ 1.3 billion of taxpayers’ funds from the Biden administration helped sponsored groups or terrorism.
Watchdog federal reports and other documents show that former president Joe Biden’s Aid Programs directed money to a network of terrorism in the Muslim world-mainly by reversing politicians from the time of Trump. National Security Experts said The Daily Caller News Foundation that Trump’s modern administration must take this trend more seriously.
“We should not put money into any country or areas where the terrorist group remains under control,” said Bill Roggio, a senior member of the Democracy Defense Foundation. Roggio said that “help, like money, is mushroom.”
“It limits these groups,” said the analyst counteracting DCNF terrorism. “It allows them to use … all the money that they must invest in their terrorist activities.”
The DCNF Department of State said last week that “national security is and will remain the highest priority” after President Donald Trump announced He again assesses foreign help programs.
“The period of review is a means introduced for us to adapt our ongoing work with the first program of America,” said the department. “The results of an in -depth review will be transferred to transparent.”
Trump also placed dozens senior officials After the vacation of the United States International Development Agency, one of the entities responsible for financing for Afghanistan that the Taliban stole on the biden watch. Trump administration Closed USAID headquarters on Monday and can completely solve the agency.
The largest share of dollars from the time of biden associated with terrorism went to Palestinian organizations, according to the files of congress research.
Biden administration distance USD 1 053 $ 400,000 taxpayers to the UN Agency and the provisions of the Figure and Work Agency Tied to terrorists Fighting Israel, according to the American and Israeli intelligentsia. Biden reversed the ban on Unrwa funds from Trump’s time in 2021, but restored the ban last year after Israel accused Untra of participating in Hamas’ attacks of October 7, 2023.
Intelligence officials later revealed that over 1000 Unrwa employeesSo about 10%, they were associated with the Hamas groups and Palestinian Islamic jihad, according to documents Found on dead terrorists and other evidence. A dozen dozen took part in the massacre of October 7, including the commander of Hamas, who taught at the Primary School for Unrwa and led the siege against Israeli Kibutz, who killed almost 100 people.
Ungra schools have long been used program For Palestinian children who love terrorists and martyrdom, an UN report from March 2023 was found.
The curriculum comes from the Palestinian autonomy (PA), the management body on the west shore, which Biden administration considered more amiable to American interests than Hamas. PA also achieved profits from the presidency of Biden, despite his program, which pays Palestinians and their families for a reward for terror towards Jews.
Trump and Congress adopted the law In 2018 blocking Economic support funds for PA due to its program. Later Trump stopped all other funds for PA before Biden took office and resumed.
Biden administration partly enlivened the Economic Support Fund, which limits Trump’s law. Department of State claimed In the documents of 2021, “most” of money did not “benefit PA directly” due to violation of law. However, officials sent $ 265 million straight to PA for “institutions of security and justice forces” throughout the presidency of Biden, in accordance with Congress research services.
As part of Biden Pa, he agreed to pay over $ 97 million on the remuneration of the perpetrators of attacks on October 7, Washington Free Beacon informed.
“Palestinian autonomy does not honor its obligations to ensure safety on the West Bank,” said Roggio for DCNF. “Until it is ready, I would not finance them.”
The conservative group sued Biden and former secretary of state Antony Blinken in 2022 on behalf of the victims of terror, accusation They broke Trump’s law 2018, financing PA. The case is current.
The rest of the funds from the time of Biden, which increased terrorism, fell into the hands of the Taliban after the regaining of Afghanistan in August 2021. Special US government inspector in favor of the reconstruction of Afghanistan (Sigar) revealed the growing security problems when Biden continued humanitarian efforts for Afghans under a brutal Islamic regime. Government programs have been designed to help in Afghan women’s rights, economic conditions and other reasons.
“It’s terrible. We want to help Afghan women – said Roggio.
“As a help in the field of good intention and assistance,” he said, it can ultimately “extend these problems.”
CIGAR Reported in 2022 and Again In 2023, the Taliban “probably gained access to around $ 57.6 million”, intended for the former Afghan government when he took over the government’s financial accounts.
Sigar in May found that the US groups supported by the US also paid “at least $ 10.9 million dollars of taxpayers” taxes and other fees for the Taliban. Sigar admitted that it was probably “only a fraction” of the total amount due to a lack of documentation.
In total, the registered amount, which Unrwa, Palestinian and Taliban got up as part of Biden, are about USD 1,386,900,000.
One legislator in the Foreign Affairs Committee has been trying to stop the US for years from enriching the Taliban.
“They take our money and we give it to them because we are a merciless,” said the Republican representative of Tim Burchett from Tennessee for DCNF. He said that the United States was effectively “on both sides” of wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East due to the weaknesses of help programs.
In the event of a solution, Burchett indicated legislation He has repeatedly filed This would require the Department of State to formulate more severe procedures and supervision over Afghanistan funds. The latest version of the bill is now in Foreign Affairs Committee.
“Here is my proposal: make these paying American funds responsible for their decisions,” said DCNF senior member of the American Enterprise Institute. “If the money goes to terror proxies, they should face the penalty for neglect and even prosecution for financing terror.”
“If they are not responsible enough to distinguish [between] Justified recipients and terrorists should pay the price, “said Rubin, a former Pentagon official who traveled through the Middle East. “If they have skin in the game, these scandals may not be so common.”
DCNF analysis does not include Reported examples Hamas fighters stealing humanitarian aid shipments that Americans may have paid for. Republican legislators have repeatedly repeated that they did not receive a response to this subject with Usaid Biden, currently threatened with closure.
“They secretly poured literally countless hundreds of millions of dollars to Hamas, including tens of millions of cash that they could never include,” said Republican Senator Ted Cruz from Texas about USAID officials. “The American nation deserves to find out where their hard -earned dollars are going, and expenses must be adapted to the best for our country.”
“It is obvious that some agency functions are important and must be continued, but with supervision and responsibility,” said Cruz for DCNF.
Rep. Burchett and other Republicans sent letter to USAID in October 2023, a question about documents and warning about the risk of helping Hamas. Burchett told DCNF that the agency had not fulfilled the application.
“I never expected me to recover something for it,” he said.
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Hudson Crozier is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Taliban Insurgenci” by Isafmedia CC at 2.0.
