The Trump administration’s examination of America’s major foreign aid organization made headlines for exposing billions of dollars in questionable spending.
One key discovery is that it sent funds to the Hamas terror group, even after the massacre, kidnappings and sexual torture of Oct. 7, 2023.
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As a government agency, the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, uses taxpayer dollars for civilian foreign aid and development assistance.
Recent revelations, however, indicate it’s been bankrolling America’s enemies and those pledged to destroy Israel.
During a late February House hearing on how USAID used its money, Middle East Forum Executive Director Greg Roman testified that “Dozens of terror organizations have received indirect assistance from U.S. foreign aid.”
Roman cited Gaza as a case study, telling lawmakers, “$2.1 billion in American taxpayers’ money (went) to Gaza since October 7, when Hamas invaded southern Israel. USAID money was going in terms of an emergency use authorization to try to go to parties that USAID formerly had a relationship with in the Gaza Strip.”
Roman continued, “They had to have been vetted by the Office of Foreign Assets Control. They should have been vetted against the special designated terror list from the State Department and from other Treasury organizations.”
Roman explained that the investigation of the funding told a different story. He testified that “Waivers were granted because they said there was an emergency use to have that money come into Gaza, thereby jettisoning the usual typical screening procedures. As a result, 90% of aid that was going from the United States by way of its agents in Gaza ended up in Hamas-controlled areas.”
“This is ridiculous,” he declared. “Essentially, what the U.S. assistance to Gaza did was underwrite the ability for Hamas to survive until the ceasefire was just passed.”
CBN News reached out to USAID for a response on the continuation of the funds after October 7 but did not receive a reply.
In Elon Musk’s role with Department of Government Efficiency, he began to make cuts to the agency almost immediately, although the terror funding has been cited before.
Senator Ted Cruz told ABC News that he brought up the funding of Hamas long before Trump’s re-election.
“(During) the previous administration, I held up the confirmation of the Middle East director for USAID because USAID was sending millions of dollars into Gaza that was going directly to Hamas and being used to fund terrorism – and they were hiding it – they were trying to keep it in darkness,” Cruz recalled.
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