American taxpayers have spent more than $1 billion in Afghanistan since the botched withdrawal, yet the Biden administration is refusing to give an accounting of the funds to a government watchdog.
The State Department says it will not comply with an investigation request by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, to look at reconstruction expenditures that have totaled $146 billion since 2002, the agency’s report to Congress says.
“The State Department and USAID refused to answer nearly all of SIGAR’s quarterly data requests regarding agency-supported programs in Afghanistan this quarter,” the report says. “State and USAID claimed without basis that US programming in Afghanistan is unrelated to reconstruction activities.” The U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021 after 20 years of war, leaving behind thousands of allies and American citizens. Thirteen American service members were killed as the Taliban took control of the government.
During his years serving in Afghanistan, Bolduc, who lost his bid for a U.S. Senate seat in New Hampshire earlier this week, said he saw how U.S. aid was funneled to terrorist organizations once it reached the country.State Department spokesman Ned Price defended his agency’s actions to the Washington Free Beacon.
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