Funding Concerns in USAID Programs

Who gets some of that money? Does that name ring a bell to anybody in the

room?

Because your money,

your money, six hundred and ninety-seven million dollars annually,

plus

the shipments of cash funds madrassas,

ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, ISIS Khorasan,

terrorist training camps. That's what it's funding.

If you think

that the, that the, uh, the program under

Operation Enduring Sentinel entitled Women's Scholarship

Endowment, which receives sixty million dollars

annually, or the Young

Women Lead, which gets about five million dollars

annually, is

going to women, who by the way, if you read the Inspector General's

report, has

tell-- is telling you

that the Taliban does not allow women to speak in public.

Yet somehow you're believing, and American people are supposed

to believe, that this money is going for the betterment

of the women in Afghanistan. It is not.

You are funding terrorism, and it's coming through USAID.

And it's not just Afghanistan, 'cause Pakistan's right next door.

USAID spent eighty-eight hundred and forty million in the

last year, last twenty years on Pakistan's

education-related program.

It includes a hundred and thirty-six million dollars to build a

hundred and twenty

schools of which there is zero evidence that any ever more

built.

Why would there be any evidence? The Inspector General can't get in to see

them.

But you know what? We doubled down and spent twenty million dollars from

USAID to create educational television programs for children

unable to attend the physical school.

Yeah, they can't attend it 'cause it doesn't

exist. You paid for it.

Somebody else got the money. You are paying for terrorism.

This has got to end. I yield, Mr. Chairman.