Republicans fume over report part of $2.8B Afghan humanitarian funding went to Taliban
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Reps. Brian Mast and Michael McCaul separately admonished the Biden administration after an inspector general report found the Taliban were eventually recipients of millions of dollars from the more than $2 billion in U.S. aid.
Mast pointed to a reported $2.8 billion in humanitarian funding being directed to Afghanistan following the disastrous 2021 withdrawal that claimed the lives of more than a dozen American service members and led to the Taliban retaking control of the Kabul government. Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
After admonishing the State Department over a $500,000 grant he characterized as going to "promote atheism in Nepal," Mast took aim at what reportedly happened to the billions the U.S. sent to help Afghan civilians after their country was upturned. He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant.
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