{"id":1726203,"date":"2022-11-06T06:14:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T11:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1726203"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:08:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:08:58","slug":"ig-bidens-1b-in-taxpayer-dollars-to-afghanistan-unaccounted-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ig-bidens-1b-in-taxpayer-dollars-to-afghanistan-unaccounted-for\/","title":{"rendered":"IG: Biden\u2019s $1B in Taxpayer Dollars to Afghanistan Unaccounted For"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fig-bidens-1b-in-taxpayer-dollars-to-afghanistan-unaccounted-for%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1726203&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"contain\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>Check out what&#8217;s clicking on FoxBusiness.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0U.S. government\u00a0gave $1.1\u00a0billion in\u00a0U.S.\u00a0tax dollars to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/fox-news-afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taliban-controlled Afghanistan<\/a> in humanitarian aid\u00a0since the U.S. withdrawal in August 2021<strong> \u2014\u00a0<\/strong>and a top federal watchdog says several\u00a0U.S.\u00a0agencies are refusing to explain how the money was spent.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0U.S. government\u00a0remains Afghanistan\u2019s single largest donor more than one year after the Taliban takeover of the country and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) says for the first time in history \u2014 they don\u2019t have the answers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/931\/523\/2022-10-31T152930Z_643450989_RC2O7W930ZBV_RTRMADP_3_WARCRIMES-AFGHANISTAN.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>Taliban members drive in a convoy to celebrate the first anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, along a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 31, 2022.\u00a0<\/span><span> (Reuters\/Ali Khara\/File Photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In SIGAR\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigar.mil\/pdf\/quarterlyreports\/2022-10-30qr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quarterly report to Congress<\/a> the Inspector General explains that they are unable to track down how more than $1\u00a0billion\u00a0taxpayer dollars was spent because multiple government agencies are refusing to cooperate.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector General John F. Sopko\u00a0says, &#8220;SIGAR, for the first time in its history, is unable this quarter to provide Congress and the American people with a full accounting of this U.S. government spending due to the noncooperation of several U.S. government agencies.&#8221; Sopko\u00a0adds\u00a0that both United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which administers the majority of U.S. government spending for Afghanistan, and the Treasury Department &#8220;refused to cooperate with SIGAR in any capacity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Inspector General says the State Department was &#8220;selective&#8221; about what information it provided and failed to provide details of the agency-supported programs that the billion dollars in taxpayer money funded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/931\/523\/2022-07-23T000000Z_1978982460_RC2XHV906I6X_RTRMADP_3_USA-POLITICS-REPUBLICANS.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Rep. Matt Gaetz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida speaks at the Turning Point USA&#8217;s (TPUSA) Student Action Summit (SAS) in Tampa, Fla., U.S., July 23, 2022. <\/span><span> (Reuters\/Joe Skipper \/ Reuters Photos)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/economy\/afghans-resettling-in-us-struggle-to-find-affordable-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AFGHANS RESETTLING IN US STRUGGLE TO FIND AFFORDABLE HOUSING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FOX Business exclusively\u00a0obtained\u00a0letters from Rep. Matt Gaetz\u00a0(R-Fla.)\u00a0to Secretary of State Antony Blinken,<strong> <\/strong>Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and US AID Administrator Samantha Power<strong> \u2014\u00a0<\/strong>demanding accountability over $1.1\u00a0billion\u00a0in taxpayer money that has been funneled to\u00a0Taliban-controlled Afghanistan since the U.S. military&#8217;s exit<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gaetz\u00a0wrote in his letters<strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;I found it even more shocking, and maddening, that much of these illicit fund transfers are unaccounted for because your Department withheld information in violation of federal law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/apps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX BUSINESS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson with USAID says they have been cooperating with the inspector general and have provided hundreds of pages of documents and dozens of evaluations responding to requests for information.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Treasury spokesperson tells FOX Business, &#8220;Treasury has complied with all legal requirements and shared information with SIGAR.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White House and State Department did not respond to FOX Business prior to publication. A state department spokesperson told Bloomberg that they have answered dozens of questions and provided thousands of pages of documents to SIGAR \u2014 and points out that the inspector general\u2019s mandate does not cover humanitarian aid \u2014 only funds spent on Afghanistan\u2019s reconstruction which the US ended with the Taliban takeover.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/931\/523\/2022-08-31T093652Z_234889332_RC2L7W9U0FOJ_RTRMADP_3_AFGHANISTAN-TALIBAN-ANNIVERSARY.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Afghan girls hold flags of the Islamic Emirate while participating in the first anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>Afghan girls hold flags of the Islamic Emirate while participating in the first anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 31, 2022.<\/span><span> (Reuters\/Ali Khara \/ Reuters Photos)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gaetz\u00a0told\u00a0FOX Business that SIGAR\u2019s bombshell report is a &#8220;searing&#8221; indictment of the Biden administration\u2019s lack of transparency compared to prior administrations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;57 times when SIGAR has issued their quarterly report they have declined to level this type of an indictment against\u00a0[the]\u00a0Trump Administration, the Obama Administration, or the Bush Administration \u2026 the unwillingness to participate in transparency is the highest with the Biden government after the Biden government left the Taliban a military and now insists on unreviewed transfers of aid that has already exceeded a billion dollars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON FOX BUSINESS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republicans say this will be a top issue if they take control of the House\u00a0following Tuesday\u2019s midterm election\u00a0and have subpoena power, &#8220;We are entering the era of investigations and oversight and in the upcoming Republicans Congress we\u2019re going to have an ability to haul in administrative officials and get answers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is going to be near the top of my list on the Armed Services Committee,&#8221; Gaetz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out what&#8217;s clicking on FoxBusiness.com The\u00a0U.S. government\u00a0gave $1.1\u00a0billion in\u00a0U.S.\u00a0tax dollars to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in humanitarian aid\u00a0since the U.S. withdrawal in August 2021 \u2014\u00a0and a top federal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1726207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1726207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}