Posted on 04/24/2025 7:56:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A State Department list of 898 approved government grants and contracts authorized by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) includes over $2.5 billion of authorized funding to organizations that have previously supported the charitable infrastructure of designated terrorist organizations.
In March, the State Department provided a document to Congress listing some 5,341 awards terminated as part of the administration’s decimation of USAID, alongside 898 surviving grants.
Surviving beneficiaries that have supported terrorist charitable infrastructure are set to receive, the Middle East Forum has found, a total of $2.5 billion across 103 awards [see Appendix], for projects that the USAID estimates will cost the taxpayer a total of $3.4 billion.
Some $200 million of these awards are earmarked for projects in Gaza, run by organizations with histories of involvement with Hamas proxy organizations or the Hamas government itself.
USAID Bureacrat Jonathan Kamin Meets with Officials of the Hamas-linked Bayader charity in the Gaza Strip
In addition, USAID has entrusted an additional $73 million to several of these charities for aid work in the Taliban’s Afghanistan, and a further $54 million in Islamist-run Syria.
On April 22, Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned of a “sprawling bureaucracy” at the State Department that “created a system more beholden to radical political ideology than advancing America’s core national interests.”
This “sprawling bureaucracy” at USAID – and its parent organization, the Department of State – maintains long-standing relationships with USAID’s surviving beneficiaries. All are connected through the bloated, incestuous international aid and development industry.
This extends to shared staff. For instance, Sean Carroll, the director of one terror-connected grantee profiled below, ANERA, previously served under the Obama administration as USAID’s Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Officer. Similarly, senior officials of World Vision, another terror-connected USAID beneficiary also profiled below, have been recruited from USAID staff.
Today, USAID still seems to employ bureaucrats who are willing to look the other way as American taxpayers’ dollar subsidize terror infrastructure.
Surviving USAID Beneficiaries
Norwegian Refugee Council
$270 million of USAID awards will be provided to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
The NRC is a leading partner of Hamas in Gaza, running dozens of joint events with the terror group’s “Ministry of Social Development.” The Hamas government praises the NRC for “supporting the projects” of the Hamas ministry.
In fact, the NRC seems to directly train Hamas terror staff, with one Hamas social media posting noting about an event: “The program is funded by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and includes the implementation of 10 awareness workshops targeting 220 staff members from the Ministry’s directorates and representatives of local and community councils across the governorates.”
NGO Monitor points out: “NRC has longed campaigned for direct Hamas involvement in aid distribution in Gaza. In 2006 it called on the Norwegian government to ‘support Hamas as the democratic elected government and not impose actions that lead to more instability.’”
Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED)
The French charity, the Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED), is slated to receive USAID awards worth over $403 million.
ACTED is a partner in Gaza of the Unlimited Friends Association (UFA), which is involved with senior Hamas leaders and promotes violently anti-Semitic rhetoric across its social media pages.
ACTED and Hamas charity UFA collaborate closely in Gaza
UFA hosts events to provide financial support to “the families of martyrs and prisoners.” These handouts are part of the group’s “Orphan Sponsorship Program.” In since-deleted videos published by the group, the charity’s officials defined orphans to include the children of those killed while resisting “the ongoing slaughter against the Palestinian people.”
Such work is carried out in open collaboration with Hamas. UFA has organized events and invited to its offices prominent Hamas figures such as Mustafa Sawwaf, who calls “Israel’s disappearance ... a necessity [according to] the Koran"; as well as Mohamed Abu-Shkian, a senior Hamas leader who praises the “strikes of the mujahideen” and leads events in Gaza lionizing slain terrorist operatives.
In addition, UFA openly advertises projects funded by U.S. charities in prominent Hamas literature and boasts a certificate of support from Ummah University, an institution in Gaza directly controlled by Hamas’s “Interior Ministry.”
In 2022, multiple Hamas-aligned media outlets, including the terrorist group’s own daily newspaper, Felesteen News, published details of job vacancies at UFA; not as advertisements, but as news stories.
Meanwhile, hatred for Jews permeates UFA’s activities. In 2013, the charity published a social media post stating: “We ask God to drive away the anguish of the heroic prisoners in the Nazi Zionist jails and to free Al-Aqsa Al-Sharif from the filth of the most dirty Jews.”
UFA officials express similar rhetoric on their personal social media. In April 2021, UFA director Jomaa Khadoura called for God to “cleanse Al-Aqsa from the impurity of the Jews.”
ACTED organizes programs in Gaza using both UFA and the Fares Al-Arab Foundation as “implanting partners.”
A day after the October 7 attacks, the Fares Al-Arab Foundation published a statement mourning the “martyrdom” of Sami Labad. A since-deleted social media post from his relative, Haitham Lubbad, claimed that Labad, who worked for Hamas’s Ministry of Health, was killed “assisting the mujahideen on the Gaza Strip border” during Hamas’s October 7 mass-terror attack. Another relative notes he died while “engaged in battle, providing aid and treating the storming fighters in the heart of the carnage.”....SNIP
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The money fire hose was not turned off fast enough.
this administration is impotent. I’m getting sick of their inability to fight. Weak and stupid.
▶︎ 5,341 USAID awards were terminated
▶︎ 898 USAID grants totaling $2.5 billion across 103 awards SURVIVED. These are going to terrorist pro-Hamas / anti-Israel organizations.
WTH did these "survive" the budget axe?
us gummit funding our own enemies
The Trump-Vance administration has been in office and at work for about three months, trying to turn off many spigots and putting out many fires. Three and three-quarter years left to go. Patience is suggested.
I thought DOGE shut this commie USAID ATM racket down?
“us gummit funding our own enemies”
Exactly. We are an ally of Israel, yet she are funding Hamas at the same time!! Disgusting.
Evil.
The ""Middle East Forum" has found? Oh, OK. Instantly credible.
Frie Rubio.
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