Scott Perry, a United States Congressman representing Pennsylvania, has accused the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, of funding terrorist organizations like Boko Haram.

Perry disclosed this at the inaugural hearing of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency on Thursday.

Speaking during a session titled

“The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud,” Perry accused USAID of providing $136 million for building 120 schools in Pakistan.

Perry noted that there was “zero evidence” of the schools’ construction.

According to Perry:

“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.

“You are funding terrorism, and it’s coming through USAID. And it’s not just Afghanistan, because Pakistan’s right next door.

“Somebody else got the money. You are paying for terrorism. This has got to end.”

This comes as former President Donald Trump moved to shut down USAID’s operations.

Trump had accused the agency of corruption.

In a similar vein, American billionaire business mogul Elon Musk, who leads the Department of Government Efficiency, also criticized USAID for allegedly engaging in what he termed rogue operations.

Musk has called USAID “a viper’s nest of radical-left Marxists who hate America” and has vowed to shut it down.