USAID funds flow to terrorist-tied organizations

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The Left is livid. Witness the protests and sympathetic media stories about United States Agency for International Development staff and grantees prompted by President Donald Trump’s funding freeze. But USAID has also funded terrorist-tied organizations, and the agency’s own inspector general previously expressed concerns about its operations’ weak vetting and vulnerability to “armed groups.”

Two recently released reports present damaging details. The Middle East Forum highlighted problems with 12 nongovernmental organizations working globally, while NGO Monitor focused on two U.S.-registered nongovernmental organizations’ working in Gaza.

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