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Latest Congress Revelation: USAID funding the Taliban and other terror groups
Apr 27, 2025
USAID sending $40 million per week to the Taliban, Hamas, and more terror groups.
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I now recognize the gentleman from
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Tennessee Mr burett for 5 minutes thank
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you chair lady uh Mr Roman are you aware
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that we are sending $40 million a week
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to the to the
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Taliban yes sir can you name other
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instances of foreign aid going to
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terrorist
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organizations we have assisted al-shabab
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and Somalia there's been instances of
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the hamzi network in Sudan Hamas Islamic
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jihadah kah
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Shams in Syria dozens of Terror
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organizations have received indirect
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assistance from US foreign aid could you
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elaborate a little bit on the mechan uh
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mechanisms in place that are to stop
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foreign aid from going to terrorist
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groups and why are they not working if
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we have any in place and I would note
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that these are you notice these are um
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terrorist Weaponry you see some AKs
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sks's some snipers some clips some um
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clip carriers probably made in China and
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I believe these are um small landmines
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here beside right there let's use Gaza
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as our case study $2.1 billion in
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American taxpayers money to Gaza since
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October 7th when Hamas invaded Southern
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Israel usaid money was going in terms of
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an emergency use authorization to try to
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go to parties that usaid formerly had a
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relationship with in the Gaza Strip they
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had to have been vetted by ofac they
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should have been vetted against the
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special designated Terror list from
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theate state department and from other
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treasury organizations waivers were
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granted because they said that there was
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an emergency use to have that money come
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in to Gaza thereby jettisoning the usual
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typical screening procedures as a result
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90% of Aid that was going from the
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United States by way of its agents in
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Gaza ended up in Hamas controlled areas
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and this is ridiculous essentially what
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the US assistance to Gaza did was
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underwrite the ability for Hamas to
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survive until until the ceasefire was
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just passed a few weeks ago there was no
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strategic thought for it and there was
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no screening seems like the emergency
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might have been to arm terrorists to
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kill civilians would that be accurate
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that's accurate and even more than that
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Samantha Powers the administrator for
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usaid was intent on having Israel not be
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able to defend itself to not be able to
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defend itself
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correct uh Mr prar is that correct how
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do you say that prar I got Birch it man
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nobody gets mine right so don't don't
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worry what is it primar perfect all
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right thanks brother how the terrorists
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explore our foreign aid
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loopholes well we have we have a lot of
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our International you pull your mic up
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I'm sorry I'm can you hear me yes sir
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you have international Nos and un
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agencies actively Lobby here in
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Washington DC against vetting Pro
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vetting policies that would prevent it I
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was the senior vetting officer at usid
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and what did you say United Nations is
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doing this the UN sure they everybody's
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uh everybody's getting money lobbies
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here that they're lobbying against us
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I'm sorry Mr Roman you're there's
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actually someone who used to work for
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one of those lobbies the largest NGO
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Lobby interaction one of our
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co-witnesses here work for them from
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2018 to 2023 us Aid effectively self
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funds its own external private lobby
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that then goes back to Congress and asks
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for more money for usaid so the
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taxpayers fund this lobbyist who's
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working against American interest
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correct possibly killing our allies and
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possibly Americans bring together groups
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in Washington that overseas work with
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groups that kill Americans yeah I don't
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need a flowchart to show that I
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appreciate it um do you think us Aid
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programs have been align with the
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National Security interest the
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US no they have not they have actually
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helped China Mr Roman no okay how do
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these programs compromise our national
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security Mr Prim they actually push
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China they actually push much of the
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world towards China on the green energy
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agenda uh they push people Ordinary
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People billions of people towards China
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because of the resentment caused by our
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social
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re-engineering are we being lobbied by
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these Pro communist China groups
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currently well a lot of these countries
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don't even have to Lobby because they
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get the money anyway like South Africa
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yeah and in fact these lobbyists have
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come to the house and have tried to kill
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legislation like hr60 which was meant to
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increase transparency in Us's funding of
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overseas organizations current piece of
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legislation that's from the last session
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last and give me that number again hr60
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and what does it do it was meant to uh
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give us lawmakers the ability to have
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higher transparency in Terror financing
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investigations aimed at scrutinizing
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extremist groups Mr
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PR we had a regulation before we left in
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the last Administration that anybody who
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touches money in area in countries where
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there's terrorists those names have to
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go through databases terrorist databases
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that was overturned by Biden overturned
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by Biden chair lighting
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