{"id":1924139,"date":"2023-05-04T09:57:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T13:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/8-billion-in-u-s-funds-may-have-gone-to-the-taliban\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:00:05","slug":"8-billion-in-u-s-funds-may-have-gone-to-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/8-billion-in-u-s-funds-may-have-gone-to-the-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"$8B of US funds possibly went to Taliban."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2F8-billion-in-u-s-funds-may-have-gone-to-the-taliban%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=1924139&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--><h2>Is U.S. Humanitarian Aid Funding the Taliban in Afghanistan?<\/h2>\n<p>Since the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, the U.S. has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/8-billion-in-u-s-funds-may-have-gone-to-the-taliban\/\" title=\"B of US funds possibly went to Taliban.\">continued sending money<\/a> to the country in the form of humanitarian aid. However, a recent testimony by John Sopko, the Special Inspector General to Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), has raised concerns that the U.S. cannot be confident that our $8 billion of aid to Afghanistan isn&#8217;t funding the Taliban.<\/p>\n<h3>The Risk of Funding the Taliban<\/h3>\n<p>Sopko admitted that there is effectively no monitoring of these funds to ensure they are not going to the Taliban. The U.S. does not currently recognize the Taliban as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-culture-can-be-downstream-of-politics\/\" title=\"KNOWLES: Culture\u00a0Can Be\u00a0Downstream Of Politics\">legitimate government<\/a>. No effective oversight means U.S. funds could end up in the wrong hands, &#8220;subjected to waste, fraud, and abuse,&#8221; SIGAR wrote.<\/p>\n<h3>The Need for Reevaluation<\/h3>\n<p>The U.S. needs to seriously reevaluate its funding and monitoring processes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-scott-introduce-bill-targeting-venezuelas-maduro\/\" title=\"Rubio, Scott Introduce Bill Targeting Venezuela\u2019s Maduro\">ensure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-nevada-a-corrupt-cash-for-votes-scheme-is-hiding-in-plain-sight\/\" title=\"In Nevada, A Corrupt Cash-For-Votes Scheme Is Hiding In Plain Sight\">taxpayer dollars<\/a><\/a> are actually helping the Afghan people, and not ending up in the hands of the brutal and barbaric Taliban government. Biden Administration officials have repeatedly stressed that this aid is strictly going toward humanitarian efforts via non<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-has-signed-40-executive-orders-and-actions-since-taking-office\/\" title=\"Biden has signed 40 executive orders and actions since taking office\">-governmental organizations<\/a> and other humanitarian aid organizations. However, without proper monitoring, there is no way to ensure that the aid is not being diverted to the Taliban.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The U.S. must take action to ensure that our humanitarian aid is not funding the Taliban. It is crucial that we reevaluate our funding and monitoring processes to ensure that taxpayer dollars are being used effectively to help the Afghan people.<\/p>\n<p>Syndicated with permission from RealClearWire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Andrzejewski for RealClearInvestigations Since the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, the U.S. has continued sending money to the country in the form of humanitarian aid. Now, a watchdog claims that the U.S. can\u2019t be confident that our $8 billion of aid to Afghanistan isn\u2019t funding the Taliban. 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