Boko Haram Funded By The U.S Government Through USAID -Lawmaker

US Congressman, Scott Perry, has said that US aid agency, United States Agency for International Development, (USAID) funded terrorist organisations, including Boko Haram.

Perry, a Republican representing Pennsylvania 10th Congressional District, made the claim during the inaugural hearing of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency on Thursday.

The session, titled “The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud,” focused on alleged misappropriations of taxpayer funds.

“Who gets some of that money? Does that name ring a bell to anybody in the room? Because your money, your money, $697 million annually, plus the shipments of cash funds in Madrasas, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, ISIS Khorasan, terrorist training camps. That’s what it’s funding,” Perry said.

US President Donald Trump has previously called for the closure of USAID, accusing the agency of corruption in a post on his Truth Social platform.

The move is part of Trump’s -and his billionaire ally Elon Musk’s -drive to shrink the US government.

Musk, whom Trump appointed to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has also criticised USAID, alleging that it engages in rogue operations.

Among other criticisms, which Musk has claimed that USAID does “rogue CIA work” and even “funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people.”

Trump said DOGE would “dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excessive regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies -essential to the ‘Save America’ movement. This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in government waste, which is a lot of people!”.