Let's Cut Some Spending: Biden has given $2.35 billion to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan

Remember the absolutely critical Omnibus spending bill Congress muscled through at the end of last year? It was 4,000 pages that no one read and cost taxpayers $1.7 trillion.

In our Let's Cut Some Spending series, ForAmerica will chronicle parts of the 2021 and 2022 spending bills from a variety of sources that you probably don't know about - programs, grants and spending of all kinds that should have never happened in the first place and many that are still happening.

Today’s offering: Biden has given $2.35 billion to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan!

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

The Biden administration has provided more than $2.35 billion in taxpayer dollars to Afghanistan since the Taliban retook control of the government in 2021 following a deadly U.S. evacuation.

The United States remains Afghanistan’s top patron, even as lawmakers and federal oversight officials warn that these funds could be propping up the Taliban’s terrorist government. Updated spending figures were disclosed Tuesday in a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a federal watchdog that documents waste, fraud, and abuse related to U.S. expenditures in the war-torn country.

Around $1.7 billion "remained available for possible disbursement" at the time of SIGAR’s report, meaning that this money is ready to flow into non-profit groups and other entities working on reconstruction projects in Afghanistan. With the Taliban exerting control over nearly every sector of the country’s infrastructure—including the NGO community—it is more than likely that a sizable portion of these funds will end up in the terror group’s coffers.

WOW. Just WOW!

We fought a war in that country for 20 years, precisely to overthrow the Taliban for harboring Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda members after 9/11...

And now we're STILL giving them BILLIONS!

Whether the Taliban is getting American dollars directly or indirectly is not the point. We should be going out of our way to make sure the terrorist group isn't getting any of our money at all.

We SHOULD be. But not with this administration.