Republican senators are slamming the Biden administration for awarding cash to a terrorism-linked organization even after it began to be investigated by a government watchdog.
The Washington Examiner first reported Wednesday that the U.S. Agency for International Development gave $78,000 in October 2023 to Helping Hand for Relief and Development, which lawmakers have warned shares ties to terrorists, despite USAID’s inspector general launching an investigation into the agency for granting $110,000 in 2021 to the Michigan-based charity. Helping Hand for Relief and Development has ties to Pakistan’s Falah-e-Insaniat, an arm of the Lashkar-e-Taiba foreign terrorist group, and also Jamaat-e-Islami, an international Islamist group responsible for genocide.
