One of the Leading Funders of Terror

The Middle East Forum (MEF) has produced a stunning and detailed report asserting: “The State Department and USAID have knowingly funded terrorists and their proxies with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.”

Since 2016, USAID has given over 900,000 dollars to a Gaza-based “terror charity,” Bayader, which works closely with Hamas. The MEF report states that Bayader “advertises in Hamas media, where it boasts of its USAID funding.” Bayader’s financial director publicly mourned the death of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist, lauding him as a “brother and friend.”
Like Bayader, the Unlimited Friends Association (UFA) is another Gaza-based USAID grantee closely linked to Hamas — and one that shares its venomous antisemitism. A UFA director posted a call on Facebook for Allah to “cleanse Al-Aqsa from the impurity of the Jews.”

President Trump cannot fix this on his own! Congress MUST ACT NOW!

Another UFA social media post from 2013 calls on Allah to “free Al-Aqsa Al-Sharif from the filth of the most dirty Jews.” Despite these foul sentiments, USAID boasted it helped construct a “USAID-funded Unlimited Friends Association educational and community center in Gaza.”

Enough U.S. dollars go to radical Islamists, the Middle East Forum states, to make the U.S. government “one of the leading financiers of global Islamism!”

That is stunning . . . and gives you and me all the more reason to celebrate USAID’s demise. But the left is ferociously fighting back in the courts. It's contesting Trump's authority as president, to fire USAID workers, slash its programs, and put a "RIP" sign outside USAID’s Washington, D.C., headquarters.

And some lower courts are ruling against Trump and for the left. Even the U.S. Supreme Court, in a hugely disappointing 5-4 ruling, told the White House it MUST pay nearly 2 billion dollars in withheld aid funds.

But there is a remedy.

If the courts will not honor and uphold Trump’s constitutional exercise of presidential authority to slash all USAID funding, Congress must act. Congress must eliminate USAID and cut all funding to it as a matter of law.

Demand Congress DEFUND & DEAUTHORIZE the terror-supporting USAID!

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Sources:

“Hearing Wrap Up: America-First Foreign Aid Protects U.S. Interests at Home and Abroad — United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.” Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, February 27, 2025. Oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-america-first-foreign-aid-protects-u-s-interests-at-home-and-abroad/.

‌Roman, Gregg. “How American Aid Has Subsidized Terror.” Middle East Forum, March 14, 2025. MEForum.org/mef-online/how-american-aid-has-subsidized-terror.

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