USAID for the Taliban: $500K on a Police Facility Made of Sand

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A ProPublica site had a built-in tool that allows you to see the money wasted by USAID and DoD on failed projects in Afghanistan up until 2015. The site puts the wasted funds alongside what could have been bought with the money. This find comes from Maze Moore.

Maze Moore writes on X:

“USAID spent $335 million on a diesel-fueled power plant that just sat there because Afghans can’t afford to import diesel. $300-500 million on a dam deemed too unsafe to use. $250 million on a partial road that deteriorated. Millions of healthcare facilities don’t exist. $70 million on contractor fees for projects canceled before being started, but they got to keep the money anyway.

How nice of us.

“A contractor built a $500,000 police training facility that melted when it rained because it was made from sand.”

“The DoD paid almost $500 million for 22 unsafe cargo planes to fly and sold them as scraps for about $30,000.

“Zero consequences for not delivering. Given more money every year. And this is just Afghanistan to 2015. Imagine the tax dollars being wasted around the world.”

The US canceled projects, wasting $60 million, and another $74 million had questionable benefits.

Politicians are poor stewards of US taxpayer dollars.

We fund the Taliban terrorists.

Why were we wasting money on gender sensitivity training in Afghanistan? Did they honestly think this would work?

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8675310
3 months ago

The foolish man built his house upon the sand.

Tim Kuehl
3 months ago

A month ago I read about USAID spending $15M on teaching Afghans how to weave carpets. I wonder who was conducting the classes because Afghans have been hand weaving carpets for thousands of years and some families are quite famous for it. This is another example of money laundering through USAID. Yeah, I’m making that accusation.

ChaimD
3 months ago

This egregious waste was never about empathy, it was about death by 1000 cuts for the USA, sucking it dry by wasting our tax dollars and driving up inflation to destroy morale and foment a devastating civil war.

TJ RUBICON
3 months ago

Get them DJ Trump, Vance and Musk, MAGA!

Goldfinger
3 months ago

And, what do you know about your Nations Gold? I am very suspicious. I think they sold it off and fired everyone who used to audit US and Other Nations gold. Think About that, America. Very Suspicious Activity around these Top Secret Facilities. I should write a Book.