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Speaker 0 argues that USAID funding amounts to supporting terrorism and that the money flows through programs intended for Afghan women but ultimately funds extremist networks. The speaker cites a total of $697,000,000 annually, plus shipments of cash funds that allegedly support Madrasas, ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, ISIS Khorazan, and terrorist training camps. They claim that programs under Operation Enduring Sentinel, specifically the Women’s Scholarship Endowment, which receives $60,000,000 annually, and the Young Women Lead program, which gets about $5,000,000 annually, are not benefiting women as described. The speaker notes that, according to the inspector general’s report, the Taliban does not allow women to speak in public, yet asserts that the money is being used to improve Afghan women’s lives.
The speaker contends that the money is not for the betterment of women in Afghanistan but is funding terrorism, and that the funds are coming through USAID. The critique extends beyond Afghanistan to Pakistan, stating that USAID spent $8,840,000,000 in the last twenty years on Pakistan’s education-related program. This includes $136,000,000 allocated to build 120 schools, with “zero evidence” that any of them were built, arguing that the inspector general cannot obtain access to verify the projects. The speaker further claims that USAID doubled down by spending $20,000,000 to create educational television programs for children who cannot attend physical school, adding that they “can’t attend it because it doesn’t exist,” asserting that taxpayers paid for it and that “somebody else got the money.”
In conclusion, the speaker asserts that taxpayers are funding terrorism and that the program must end, yielding the floor to the chairman.