Mr. Scott Perry, a United States Congressman has alleged that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been funding terror groups, including Boko Haram, through its financial aid programmes.
Perry, who is a Republican from Pennsylvania, made this shocking claim during the inaugural hearing of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency on Thursday, February 13, 2025.
The session, titled “The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud,” focused on alleged misappropriations of taxpayer funds.
“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.
The subcommittee’s website had it that it will “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.”
Perry further criticized USAID’s expenditure on Pakistan’s education program, which reportedly amounted to $840 million over the past two decades. He specifically pointed to the $136 million earmarked for the construction of 120 schools, claiming there was no evidence these schools were built.
“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.
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“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 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.”
US President Donald Trump in a post on his Truth Social platform once called for the closure of USAID, saying it was a corrupt agency.
