Funding terrorists

«USAID Inspector General somehow managed to put together a report on the damage the chaos is having. Among other things, it finds that the cuts have incapacitated any means of vetting disbursements to keep them out of the hands of terrorists.»

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/11/donald-trump-incorrect-shell-game-of-appropriated-spending/

I confess I just skimmed this post, but this did jump out at me.

This type of thing is just going to become more common and we won’t find out about for years, when people have finally sorted through the wreckage and done the forensics. Expect articles in the future (like… years from now) about how we accidentally funded this unpleasant thing or enabled that unpleasant thing. The exact thing the far right is currently (or rather, up until very recently) accusing the government of.

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