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Why the agency is a national security threat.
By: Daniel Greenfield
“It is really, really a sad day in America,” Rep. Ilhan Omar declared at a Democrat rally outside USAID headquarters protesting President Donald Trump’s reconstruction of the aid agency.
It wasn’t a sad day for America, but it was for Somalia.
Over the last two years, USAID had funneled $2.3 billion in “humanitarian assistance” to Omar’s native country. Last year it reported a request for $1.6 billion in aid, and even with the Biden administration on the way out the door it sent an additional $29 million in December 2024.
USAID support for Somalia had doubled under the Biden administration, and with $3.3 billion from USAID allocated in the last five years, the end of the USAID gravy train for the Islamic terrorist state must have been a painful blow for Omar, who is very close to the Somali regime. Former Somali Prime Minister Hassan Khaire had reportedly celebrated that “the interest of Ilhan are not Ilhan’s, it’s not the interest of Minnesota, nor is it the interest of the American people, the interest of Ilhan is that of the Somalian people and Somalia.”
It’s unknown if any of Omar’s Majerteen clan members benefited from the billions in American money, but considering the prominence of the clan in Somali politics, it’s likely to be the case.
Somalia, along with other Islamic terrorist entities, including the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Houthis in Yemen and Hamas in Gaza, were among the top beneficiaries of USAID cash.
USAID boasted of having sent $2.1 billion to Gaza and the West Bank since the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, 2023. In 2024 alone, $917 million was programmed for the terrorist areas occupying Israel.
USAID provided over $3.7 billion to Afghanistan since the Taliban took over, with $832 million in the previous fiscal year alone. The money was so unaccountable that USAID refused to cooperate with the U.S. government’s Afghan war watchdog tracking money going to terrorists.
Even while the United States was at war with the Houthis, the Iran-backed Islamic terrorist group firing on U.S. Navy vessels, USAID continued to direct billions of dollars to Yemen.
In 2024, USAID announced a $2.7 billion aid request for Yemen and allocated $753 million. In the last five years, USAID provided an estimated $3.4 billion in aid to an enemy terror state.
Other Islamic terrorist states that have heavily drawn on USAID include Pakistan, which harbored Osama bin Laden but benefited from $600 million in the last five years. While some American towns and cities lacked clean drinking water, USAID labored to build plants for Pakistan’s majority Muslim population even while it engaged in the persecution of Christians.
USAID spent over $700 million on Iraq during the last five years, even though the country has long since been governed by Iranian puppets whose militias have been firing on American soldiers.
$3.4 billion was directed to Syria over the past five years by USAID even as it was caught in a civil war between Shi’ite Islamists aligned with Iran and Sunni Islamists aligned with Al Qaeda.
USAID allocated $1.1 billion to Lebanon, even as the country was run by Hezbollah.
While USAID is unable to function in Iran, between Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, over $8 billion was sent to Iranian puppet regimes, even without counting the money spent on Gaza.
In total, USAID spent some $18.5 billion on Islamic terror states over those five years.
This is not a full list of USAID spending in Muslim countries, but only in those countries whose governments are closely interlinked with terrorists, sponsor terrorist groups or serve as puppets of terror groups and states. Some of these countries are actively in a conflict with the United States. They include countries responsible for the murder of American soldiers and terror attacks in the United States.
USAID has sent $9.3 billion to Islamic terror states collectively responsible for killing over 3,000 American soldiers. Not only did Islamic terrorist states and groups kill us, but in the ultimate obscenity, we have rewarded them with millions of dollars for each of our murdered soldiers.
The reconstruction of USAID under the full umbrella of the State Department rather than as a “super-NGO” advancing anti-American interests across the globe has been met with outrage by Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Jim McGovern, Sen. Chris Murphy and other longtime shills for Islamic interests in America who worry that the money for Islamic terrorists won’t be there anymore.
But we ought to ask if sending $18 billion to Islamic terror states is helping our national security.
USAID has provided massive amounts of funding for the United Nations and NGO “nonprofits” which operate inside terrorist areas with little to no oversight. Special exemptions have been handed out to allow distributors of “humanitarian aid” to partner with and do business with terrorists.
Including some of the Islamic terrorist groups that America is still at war with.
USAID’s partnerships with foreign governments, and with large, unaccountable organizations including the United Nations and the World Bank, have raised concerns of money laundering. The revolving door between USAID personnel and some of the nonprofit and for-profit groups who profit from it has also raised questions about the legitimacy of those arrangements. And USAID’s active efforts to deny information about its activities to SIGAR, the U.S. government’s Afghan war watchdog, as well as to the incoming Trump administration, makes it a rogue agency.
It may never be fully known how much of our foreign aid went into the pockets of Islamic terrorists, but the USAID freeze and consolidation under the State Department can help make sure that the aid pipeline stops being a way to fund the Islamic terrorists killing Americans.
(JNS.org)
