Biden Admin Filled Terrorist Coffers With Over $1,300,000,000 Before Trump Took Wrecking Ball To Foreign Aid
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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 f ormer 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.”
The State Department told the DCNF last week that “n ational security is and will remain a top priority” after President Donald Trump announced he is reevaluating foreign aid programs.
“The review period is a measure put in place for us to align our ongoing work with the America First agenda,” the department said. “The results of the in-depth review will be communicated transparently.”
The U.S. contributes roughly 40% of global humanitarian aid. Americans deserve transparency and accountability. As we pause and review U.S. foreign aid, @SecRubio issued a waiver for life-saving humanitarian assistance programs. https://t.co/Kwr6Bi8MES
— Department of State (@StateDept) January 29, 2025
Trump also placed dozens of senior officials on leave from the United States Agency for International Development, one of the entities responsible for funding to Afghanistan that the Taliban stole on Biden’s watch. The Trump administration closed down USAID’s headquarters Monday and may try to dissolve the agency altogether.
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.
The curriculum comes from the Palestinian Authority (PA), a governing body in the West Bank that the Biden administration considered more friendly to American interests than Hamas. The PA also made a profit from Biden’s presidency despite its program that pays Palestinians and their families as a reward for acts of terror against Jews.
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 .
“The Palestinian Authority does not honor its commitments to provide security in the West Bank,” Roggio told the DCNF. “Until it’s willing to do that, I wouldn’t fund them.”
A conservative group sued Biden and former Secretary of State Antony Blinken in 2022 on behalf of terror victims, alleging they broke Trump’s 2018 law by funding the PA. The case is ongoing .
The rest of the Biden-era funds that boosted terrorism fell into the hands of the Taliban after it reclaimed Afghanistan in August 2021. The U.S. government’s Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) exposed mounting security issues as Biden continued funding humanitarian efforts for Afghans under the brutal Islamic regime. The government’s programs were designed to help Afghan women’s rights, economic conditions and other causes.
“It’s terrible. We want to help Afghan women,” Roggio said.
“As well-meaning and well-intentioned as providing aid is,” he said, it can end up “extending these problems.”
SIGAR reported in 2022 and again in 2023 that the Taliban “likely gained access to approximately $57.6 million” meant for the former Afghan government when it seized the government’s financial accounts.
Last May, SIGAR found that U.S.-backed humanitarian groups had also paid “ at least $10.9 million of U.S. taxpayer money” in taxes and other fees to the Taliban. SIGAR acknowledged that this was “likely only a fraction” of the total amount due to lack of documentation.
In total, the recorded amount that UNRWA, the Palestinian Authority and the Taliban raked in under Biden is an estimated $1,386,900,000.
One legislator on the House Foreign Affairs Committee has tried to stop the U.S. from enriching the Taliban for years.
“They take our money and we give it to them, ’cause we’re gutless,” Republican Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee told the DCNF. He said the U.S. has effectively been “on both sides” of wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East due to the vulnerabilities of aid programs.
For a solution, Burchett pointed to legislation he has repeatedly filed that would require the State Department to form stricter procedures and oversight of its Afghanistan funds. The latest version of the bill now sits in the House Foreign Affairs Committee . (RELATED: REP. TIM BURCHETT: Your Tax Dollars Are Going To The Taliban)
“Here is my proposal: Make those disbursing U.S. funds liable for their decisions,” American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Michael Rubin told the DCNF. “If the money goes to terror proxies, then they should face penalties for negligence or even prosecution for terror finance.”
“If they are not responsible enough to tell the difference [between] legitimate recipients and terrorists, then they should pay the price,” said Rubin, a former Pentagon official who has traveled across the Middle East. “ If they have skin in the game, these scandals might not be so commonplace.”
The DCNF’s analysis does not account for reported examples of Hamas fighters stealing humanitarian aid shipments that Americans may have paid for . Republican lawmakers have repeatedly said they got no answers on the issue from Biden’s USAID, now under threat of closure.
“They secretly poured literally uncountable hundreds of millions of dollars toward Hamas, including tens of millions of cash they could never account for,” Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said about USAID officials. “The American people deserve to know where their hard-earned dollars are going and spending must be aligned with what is best for our country.”
“It’s clear that certain functions of the agency are important and those must continue, but with oversight and accountability,” Cruz told the DCNF.
Rep. Burchett and other Republicans sent a letter to USAID in October 2023, asking for documents and warning of the risks of aiding Hamas. Burchett told the DCNF that the agency has not fulfilled the request.
“I never expected to get anything back on it,” he said.
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Commit terrorism, get US dollars.. Over and over for decades on end. This is why Trump must stop the cycle of rewarding and funding terrorists.
We will also see the number of Hamas billionaires stop growing if aid is cut off...
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.”
This is not an argument many Democrats grasp.
Two weeks in and all kinds of scandals are being uncovered that were perpetrated by the progressives.
Let the investigations begin!
Cue the Bidenista defenders any time saying the mean treasonous MAGA"s made it all up....
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Thanks for letting us know what an accountant sitting in his basement thinks of the daily caller. I’m sure everyone will give his opinion the weight it deserves.
Thanks for letting us know what an accountant sitting in his basement thinks of the daily caller. I’m sure everyone will give his opinion the weight it deserves.
Founded in 2010, the Daily Caller is an American news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by Tucker Carlson , a paleoconservative political pundit, and Neil Patel, a former adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
The fact that the site was founded by Tucker Carlson shows that its bias is as far to the fanatic right as is possible regardless of what fact checkers might say.
And everyone will give the weight your propaganda bubble source deserves. It has as much credibility as the Daily Beast.
he fact that the site was founded by Tucker Carlson shows that its bias is as far to the fanatic right as is possible regardless of what fact checkers might say
Is that how you think things work? That the ghost of Tucker Carlson somehow infects reporting in 2024?
Besides logical fallacies, do you have an actual substantive rebuttal to the facts in the article?
See the irony here? Rather than making a substantive reply, you retreat into ignoring anything not reported in your bubble.
I do see the irony here. Rather than posting substantive articles from reputable sources you stick to your bubble.
And I rate the MBFC as extremely biased.
So the question really is are the facts contained in the article really FACTS. Can you refute them Robert?
When you can't dispute the information - cry about the source.
I notice you did not disagree with the fact that Tucker Carlson was part of the fanatic far right.
Says who? Waiting for credible evidence.
I notice you can't dispute the information presented in the article.
Can't say I'm surprised. Biden did give the Taliban millions in US Military equipment. His administration selectively followd the law as well.
You misspelled billions, approximately 7 billion dollars' worth of military equipment was given to the Taliban because of Bidens fucked up withdrawal.
And the IG warned USAID about the money ending up in terrorist hands, but USAID was answerable to nobody ...that is until Musk came along.
And now they are crying because it's all being made public.
Wait until "big balls" gets into the Department of Education funding!
That whole "Department" is a failure. That is a report I'd love to see.
Yep, and Randi Weingarten is scared to death what that will mean to her precious indoctrinating teacher's union and she will be out of a job.
I'm sure she will become part of the "resistance" and continue to argue the dumbing down of America's children.
Priblem is that Randi is dumber than the kids she tries to dumb down.
What has been realized since Trump took office....
Most Leftists are more pro illegals than they are pro American, if they are even that (we kinda already knew this)
Most Leftists don't care that illegals are causing havoc in this country (they need the voting base)
Most Leftists are pro government waste as evidenced by their meltdown of their grift in using USAID as a funnel for leftists beliefs.
Most leftists are more pro men in women sports than they are women in general.
Thers are more, but the list is too long for all of the leftist meltdowns., however, it is a glorious thing to watch.
Can't say I disagree.
Brought to you by the same mighty midgets that think the PA and Hamas aren't bitter enemies. Completely forgetting that Hamas killed off all of the PA operatives in Gaza the second they came to power. That Gaza and the West Bank are not physically connected in any way shape or form; and that Israel restricts travel between the two completely. That the PA sells out any Palestinian in the West Bank that isn't subservient to them to Israel. That the PA does jack shit of nothing to protect their people from Israeli settlers and the IDF. That the West Bank had nothing to do with Oct 7th no matter how badly people try to tie them to it to justify Israeli aggression that started long before Oct 7th in the West Bank. That people that don't know the difference between Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza think rockets are being fired into Israel from the West Bank. Why would the PA ever fund Hamas? Much the less reward Hamas operatives? Because it is smart to fund people that will use the money to try and kill you. Just ask the US government- they do it all the time./S
There are many legitimate reasons not to send money to the PA.
While the Trump administration should stop all funding any terrorist group; and any country supporting terrorism. They need to take a long look at Iraq. Just WTF are we still in a country (outside of protecting British and French oil interests) that is openly loyal to Iran; and allows their militias to freely operate there and attack US forces? Withdraw our troops, put back the Clinton no fly zone place to protect the Kurds and "moderate" Sunnis, and stop funding the Iraqi government and military. Follow that up with Syria. Another WTF are we still doing in that country? It doesn't matter who was in charge Obama, Trump, or Biden you couldn't keep track of the ever changing factions. Combatants switched between ISIS/ISIL, the "moderate" Sunnis we backed, and the Sunnis supported by Turkey. Let the Turkey backed Sunnis and the "moderate" Sunnis we backed fight it out for control. Winner gets one of the most dysfunctional countries in the world to try and rule. Until everything goes back to shit and civil war breaks out again. Or until Israel decides a no man's land in half of the country is a good idea- and bombs until it gets it. Whichever comes first. Get our troops out of there; and not one red cent to any faction. Ukraine, why are we supporting fascists again? I thought Democrats/leftists hated fascists. But Zelenskyy's got them completely fooled. Ukraine will never pay us back. Democrats will not allow Trump to demand Ukraine mineral and rare earth resources in return for aid. Get out now before before we are stuck paying for the rebuild after the war ends. Europe is counting on us to be stupid enough to cover their asses yet again.
After that discontinue aid to the whole ME (Including the sacred cow Israel. I keep hearing Israel never asks for aid, and doesn't need it. Time for them to prove. No more US tax payer five finger discounts for military tech and hardware. No more 3 billion in aid every year just for existing. We can sell them weapons- but they pay full price- just like our government does.) Throw in Africa, South America, Central America. In fact make that no aid to anywhere the US has tried to overthrow a government- supported a government that doesn't share our values. No aid to dictators, fascists, monarchs, socials, or communists. No aid to any country that doesn't directly benefit the US in some way. Believe that would pretty much leave Taiwan and only Taiwan getting US aid. They provide the US with semi and super conductors that we can't build ourselves (We are just too green for industry as messy as that. Just mining the rare earth minerals needed would cause the eco nuts to shut everything down.)
There, simplified it down to 1 country and only 1 country getting US aid. Billions saved every year. The rest of the world can destroy each other (so long as they don't go nuclear) while we rebuild and develop our own country for a change.