U.S. Congressman Alleges USAID Funded Boko Haram And Other Terror Groups

U.S. Congressman Scott Perry has claimed that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been sponsoring terrorist organizations such as Boko Haram.

Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania, made the allegation at the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency’s inaugural hearing on Thursday, February 14.

During the session, titled “The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud,” Perry asserted that American taxpayer funds were being misused to support extremist groups.

“Who gets some of that money? Does that name ring a bell to anybody in the room? Because your money, your money, $697 million annually, plus the shipments of cash funds in Madrasas, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, ISIS Khorasan, terrorist training camps. That’s what it’s funding,” Perry said.

He also attacked USAID’s claimed $136 million investment on building 120 schools in Pakistan, alleging there was “zero evidence” that the schools were constructed.

“USAID spent $840 million in the last 20 years on Pakistan’s education-related programme. It includes $136 million to build 120 schools, of which there is zero evidence that any of them were built. Why would there be any evidence? The Inspector General can’t get in to see them,” Perry alleged.

He also questioned the legitimacy of USAID-funded programs for women’s education in Afghanistan, claiming that such initiatives were unfeasible given the Taliban’s restrictions on women.

“If you think that the programme under Operation Enduring Sentinel entitled Women’s Scholarship Endowment, which receives $60 million annually, or the Young Women Lead, which gets about $5 million annually, is going to women who, by the way, if you read the Inspector General’s report, is telling you that the Taliban does not allow women to speak in public, yet somehow you’re believing, and the American people are supposed to believe, that this money is going for the betterment of the women in Afghanistan. It is not,” Perry stated.

“You are funding terrorism, and it’s coming through USAID. And it’s not just Afghanistan, because Pakistan’s right next door,” he added.

Elon Musk, whom Trump selected to oversee the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, has also blasted USAID, claiming it conducts rogue activities. Musk called the agency “a viper’s nest of radical-left Marxists who hate America” and pledged to tear it down. He further alleged that USAID was engaged in “rogue CIA work” and had even “funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people.”

Trump emphasized that his administration’s goal was to “dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excessive regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies — essential to the ‘Save America’ movement.”

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