As rank-and-file Americans are still reeling from the government imposed COVID shutdowns, Congress is pouring billions of taxpayer dollars into foreign aid

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Some of the items included in the bill, which is meant to fund our federal government for the next fiscal year:

$169,739,000 to Vietnam, including $19 million to remediate dioxins (page 1476)

“Unspecified funds” for not-for-profit gender-accessible education institutions in Kabul, Afghanistan (page 1477)

$198,323,000 to Bangladesh, including $23.5 million to support Burmese refugees and an additional $23.3 million for democracy programs (page 1485)

$130,265,000 to Nepal for development and democracy programs (page 1485)

$15 million for Pakistani democracy programs and an additional $10 million for “gender programs” (page 1486)

$15 million for Sri Lanka so they can refurbish a high endurance cutter patrol boat (page 1489)

$505,925,000 to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama to address the migration of unaccompanied, undocumented minors to the United States” (pages 1490-1491)

$461,375,000 to Colombia for programs related to counter-narcotics and human rights (pages 1494-1496)

$74.8 million to the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (page 1498)

$33 million for democracy programs for Venezuela (page 1498)

“Unspecified funds” to Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Curacao, and Trinidad and Tobago to mitigate the impacted of refugees from Venezuela (page 1499)

$132,025,000 for “assistance” for Georgia (page 1499)

$453 million for assistance for Ukraine (page 1500)

$500 million to Israel for “Israeli Cooperative Programs” (page 341)

In just what is listed here – and there is more in the legislation, the American taxpayers are on the hook for over $2.189 trillion! Read the report here.

US Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), blasted the bill before the details even emerged saying, “Just another bill we have to pass before the American people discover all the goodies that special interests jammed into it over the past week.”

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