Facts are beginning to emerge on why the President Donald Trump administration is working hard to unravel and fix the US aid agency, United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

A US Congressman, Scott Perry, a Republican representing Pennsylvania, on Thursday revealed that the USAID was funding several terror groups across the world including, but not limited to, “Madrasas, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, ISIS Khorasan, terrorist training camps”.

The lawmaker made the assertions at the inaugural hearing of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, in Washington.

Perry spoke at a session, titled “The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud,” with a view to unearthing perceived misappropriations of public funds.

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He said, “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 Madrasas, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, ISIS Khorasan, terrorist training camps. That’s what it’s funding.”

The subcommittee’s website, asserted that it is mandated to “actively work with President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency to root out waste, shore up vulnerable payment systems, and fully investigate schemes to defraud taxpayers.”

To drive home his assertions on terror-funding, Perry cited the USAID’s reported funding of $136 million for building 120 schools in Pakistan, for which there was “zero evidence” of the schools’ construction.

Perry pointed out, ” 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 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, because Pakistan’s right next door.

“USAID spent $840 million in the last year, 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.

“But you know what? We doubled down and spent $20 million from USAID to create educational television programs for children unable to attend the physical school. Yeah, they can’t attend it, because it doesn’t exist. You paid for it.

“Somebody else got the money. You are paying for terrorism. This has got to end.”

Recall that President Trump had called for the shutting down of the USAID, because of massive corruption within the agency in a post on his Truth Social platform.

These are some of the reasons why President Trump mandated his ally, Elon Muks to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Perhaps an indication of how serious Musk is taking his new role can be seen in his description of the USAID as “a viper’s nest of radical-left Marxists who hate America”.

The billionaire also alleged that the USAID was engaging in secret service duties and undercover bioweapon activities, like “rogue CIA work” and “funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people.”

President Trump’s disposition is that the DOGE would “dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excessive regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies — essential to the ‘Save America’ movement. This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in government waste, which is a lot of people!”