On the same day that he accused the Biden administration of potentially facilitating a Benghazi-style attack against hundreds of U.S. troops now deployed to Niger, Rep. Matt Gaetz ripped supporters of the Ukraine war-funding bill for promoting a money-laundering operation that further endangers those same troops.
Gaetz, a House Armed Services Committee member, called out the Biden administration and lawmakers on both sides for little-known provisions tucked inside the $61 billion Ukrainian aid package.
One such line item among the “stuff here that’s really insulting” was a $250 million earmark for the International Development Association, a division of the World Bank.
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“I didn’t know what that was,” said Gaetz, “but I knew it probably wasn’t good.”
He then explained why.
Among the IDA’s client states is Niger — where, as the Tampa Free Press reported on Thursday, Gaetz asserted that the Biden administration has halted diplomatic overflights that the Defense Department once relied on to deliver fresh reinforcements, medical supplies, equipment, mail, and other regular materials to an estimated 1,000 U.S. troops deployed there.
“The Biden Administration and the State Department are engaged in a massive cover-up,” Gaetz said on Thursday. “They are hiding the true conditions on the ground of U.S. diplomatic relations in Niger and are effectively abandoning our troops in that country with no help in sight.”
Gaetz noted that the IDA gave:
- $66 million to South Sudan, which has abandoned free elections
- $123 million to Sierra Leone, where rape is so rampant that a national emergency has been declared
- $144 million to Mali, which has recruited children to serve in its military
- $216 million to Madagascar, which launched an online disinformation campaign against its own citizens
- $196 million to Somalia, which appears ready to rip up its constitution and fracture the nation’s federalist system
- $50 million to Haiti, which is awash in lawlessness and gang violence
“We will hear many of our colleagues stand up and talk about how important it is to stand with our allies, but not all of this money is going to our allies,” Gaetz noted. “It’s potentially being recycled through globalist money-washing accounts to redistribute.”
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“And that’s really what this supplemental [bill] is about: It is about creating a massive wad of unaccountable American cash.”
“We are $34 trillion in debt. We are on a glide path to $50 trillion in debt. And we are borrowing money from China to give it to the World Bank,” Gaetz added.
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