Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard denied Tom West his security clearance because of his cozy relationship with the Taliban. Rep. Tim Burchett believes it is Tom West who is blocking the efforts in the senate to end the funding to the Taliban.
Tim Burchett is trying to end the funding.
If true, this is shocking.
“We got a fellow over in the Senate who is a staffer, but he was a former, I believe, ambassador to Afghanistan, and his name is …Tom West. And apparently, our good friend, Tulsi Gabbard, and the Trump administration denied him his security clearance because of his alleged cozy relationship with the Taliban.
“And so, I suspect that’s what’s going on in the Senate. That’s why they are, they’re stopping the bill.”
If true, West might be getting kickbacks. If we can’t even defund terrorists, how can we save this country?
Tom West was the Special Representative for Afghanistan and is now the Acting Head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination at the U.S. Department of State. He is very pro-Afghanistan and says he supports the rights of Afghan women and girls. However, he’s obtuse if he thinks the money is going to the women and girls.
We would like confirmation on this one since we can’t seem to get the Taliban defunded. If this isn’t true, something corrupt is going on.
BREAKING: Tim Burchett just TOOK THE GLOVES OFF and called out the person suspected to be behind the stalling of his bill to stop paying the Taliban. This is HUGE!!!
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— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) December 10, 2025
Newsweek:
Reports have come out for years claiming we send $40 million a week to the Taliban. Could that be true? I think anything is possible. We just sent $45 million, and the Senate won’t stop the flow of money to these murderous monsters.
Trump Admin Sending Taliban $45M Sparks Republican Backlash
Republicans are calling out the Trump administration after $45 million was reportedly sent to the Taliban in Afghanistan by the Department of State on Monday.
Among those reacting to the reports was Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett, who has introduced a bill aimed at stopping tax dollars from being given to the group that regained control of Afghanistan in 2021.
“Every week,” Burchett posted on X in response to the reporting. “Pass my Bill Senate!”
Newsweek reached out to the State Department via its contact form and Burchett via email for comment on Tuesday morning.
Nice propaganda you have there with an added misdirection as to where the fault lies or rather where the truth hidden by the deception leads. The guilty are and have always been the Democrats since Kennedy’s assassination. Don’t blame those following orders when the fault lies with the appropriation process and Islamic sympathizers in the Democrat Party. When you lie… Read more »
Whenever they don’t want to do what is right, I think … what’s in it for them or their associates etc, boot licking, kickbacks and grift.
Star Wars was right! The Senators are the evil ones
This is the “domestic” clause of the military oath.
WHEN???
Ignorance, somebody asleep at the wheel, incompetence,?????
So we have been conquered. I was afraid of that.
In a different age, long, long ago patriotic citizens served in congress for the good of the nation. After a term or two they returned home and another citizen patriot stood up to be counted. Yeah! that was a long long time ago.
In a forgotten land far far away.
Perhaps we should seed the environs of washington with low level radioactive waste? More than a few years exposure would radically increase the risk of cancers, thus discouraging the dynastic ambitions of career politicians.