Biden Directed USAID to Give $1.3 Billion in Taxpayer Monies to... Terrorist Organizations

In Trump's first term, he banned the government from giving money to terrorist groups.

The left has a different idea of "fighting terrorism." They want to give US taxpayer money directly to terrorist groups, so long as they mutually pretend these specific monies will be used for some non-terrorist purpose.

Even though money is fungible, and paying a terrorist group any kind of money frees them up to not pay those expenses and put the money saved into terrorism.

And even though terrorist groups take other people's money and use that money to buy the goodwill of the people they hide among. When I was over in Lebanon, my guides pointed out that the government of Lebanon sends aid to the poor, Hezballah controlled south. Hezballah takes that aid and, after skimming a lot off for terrorism, distributes it to the poor pretending that Hezballah is giving them money.

Aid stations are branded as Hezballah charity organizations, flying Hezballah flags, and of course the money mainly goes to Hezballah supporters.

Trump said, "No more of that."

Biden immediately reversed Trump's ban and started sending billions to terrorists.

More than $1.3 billion in taxpayer funds from the Biden administration ended up helping groups that sponsored or committed terrorism.

Federal watchdog reports and other documents show former President Joe Biden's aid programs funneled the money toward a network of terrorism in the Muslim world -- largely by reversing Trump-era policies. National security experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation the new Trump administration must take the trend more seriously.

"We should not be putting money into any country or areas where a terrorist group remains in control," Bill Roggio, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said. Roggio said that "aid, like money, is fungible."

"It winds up propping up these groups," the counterterrorism analyst told the DCNF. "It allows them to use ... whatever money they have to invest into their terrorist activities."

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The largest share of Biden-era dollars linked to terrorism went to Palestinian organizations, Congressional Research Service records show.

The Biden administration gave $1,053,400,000 in taxpayer money to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which claims to help war-afflicted Palestinian civilians but is tied to terrorists fighting Israel, according to U.S. and Israeli intelligence. Biden reversed a Trump-era ban on UNRWA funding in 2021 but brought back the ban last year after Israel accused UNWRA workers of participating in Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.

Intelligence officials later revealed that more than 1,000 UNRWA employees, or around 10%, were linked to the groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to documents found on the bodies of dead terrorists and other evidence. A dozen took part in the Oct. 7 massacre, including a Hamas commander who was teaching in elementary school for UNRWA and led a siege against an Israeli kibbutz that killed almost 100 people.

UNWRA's schools have long used curriculum for Palestinian children that glorifies terrorists and martyrdom, a March 2023 report from UN Watch found.

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Trump and Congress passed a law in 2018 blocking economic support funds for the PA due to its program. Trump later paused all remaining funding for the PA before Biden took office and resumed it.

The Biden administration in part revived the economic support fund that Trump's law restricts. The State Department claimed in documents from 2021 that "most" of the money did not "directly benefit the PA" in violation of the law. However, officials sent $265 million straight to the PA for its "security forces and justice sector institutions" throughout Biden's presidency, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Under Biden, the PA agreed to pay more than $97 million to reward the perpetrators of the Oct. 7 attacks, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

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USAID secretly poured uncountable hundreds of millions of dollars toward Hamas, including tens of millions of cash they could never account for.

Throughout the Biden admin, they knew the money they were pouring into Gaza would benefit Hamas. They did it anyway.

posted by Ace at 05:15 PM

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