By Jeremy Portnoy for RealClearInvestigations
Topline: Between 2013 and 2022, 15 nonprofits every obtained over $1 billion from the federal authorities for overseas, nonmilitary initiatives, in keeping with a brand new report from the Congressional Research Service.
Key details: Six thousand non-governmental organizations, or NGOS, obtained grants and contracts from the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth, however 20% of the cash went to only 10 teams. 4 of them are for-profit enterprises.
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Virtually $7 billion went to 2 notably unworthy organizations.
Non-profit analysis group RTI Worldwide accepted $2.3 billion for humanitarian initiatives world wide, though previous studies have warned of points with RTI’s spending.
Various audits from 2006 to 2014 claimed that RTI invented “fictional beneficiaries” to make an anti-malaria marketing campaign appear simpler than it actually was. Additionally they despatched computer systems to a Nicaraguan faculty that didn’t have electrical energy and billed the federal authorities for trainer salaries in Senegal that had already been paid, in keeping with the audits.
Catholic Aid Providers was the highest recipient of federal cash — $4.6 billion — singlehandedly accounting for greater than half of the funds despatched to faith-based organizations.
Six of their former board members have been named by a Pennsylvania grand jury in 2019 for permitting intercourse abuse within the Catholic Church. Catholic Aid Providers was additionally discovered responsible in 2022 of discriminatingtowards a homosexual worker.
The federal authorities additionally despatched $50 billion in overseas help to teams whose names are redacted from public databases, in keeping with the report. In complete, Congress gave $66 billion in overseas help in FY2023.
Background: A good portion of USAID’s funds go towards the Center East, amounting to nearly $21 billion from 2021 to 2023, in keeping with OpenTheBooks.
That included $1.4 billion in money transfers to Jordan, greater than every other overseas nation obtained. The Congressional Analysis Service quantified over $5 billion in finances help to Jordan from 2013 to 2022; no different nation obtained greater than $2 billion.
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OpenTheBooks additionally recognized some odd initiatives funded within the Center East. The U.S. spent $3.3 million on “girls entrepreneurship improvement” in Gaza and $339,000 to persuade Saudi Arabians to cease holding cheetahs as pets.
Abstract: It’s important for the U.S. to assist its allies, however spending must be restricted to official entities with confirmed data of being good stewards of taxpayer cash.
The #WasteOfTheDay is dropped at you by the forensic auditors at OpenTheBooks.com
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