U.S. can’t keep track of Afghan spending

Published December 15, 2015 5:01am ET



A program designed to keep tabs on more than $3 billion in foreign development spending has given the government little idea if the funds it has poured into Afghanistan are actually accomplishing anything.

Of 127 contracts and grants given out by the U.S. Agency for International Development since the program was set up in 2013, only one was ever verified by the monitoring system, according to a report made public by USAID’s inspector general over the weekend.

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