Biden’s Treasury Department authorizes working with Taliban to facilitate financial aid to Afghanistan which Republicans warn could legitimize and abet Taliban’s theocratic rule.
FOX NewsThe Biden administration is taking new actions in an attempt to facilitate humanitarian aid to people in Afghanistan, with the Department of Treasury allowing some financial transactions with the Taliban.
“The United States is the largest single provider of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan,” Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo said in a statement Wednesday. “We are committed to supporting the people of Afghanistan, which is why Treasury is taking these additional steps to facilitate assistance.”
The Treasury issued three new “general licenses” that will allow certain types of financial transactions with the Taliban and Haqqani Network, who have been largely shut out of the international financial system by American sanctions aimed at stopping terrorism and human rights abuses.
House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, was critical of the move, saying that the new policy is “shortsighted” and will “offer broad sanctions carveouts [that] could result in using American taxpayer funds to reward, legitimize and enable” the Taliban.
“Providing these exemptions under the guise of ‘humanitarian aid,’ and without any prior consultation with Congress, further undermines bipartisan support and faith in the administration’s transparency and decision-making,” McCaul said in a statement Wednesday. “I remain deeply frustrated that the administration still can’t confirm what assistance programs have been restarted. This committee must be permitted to conduct oversight of foreign assistance resources and priorities.”
Nearly five months after Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, the group has failed to deliver on it promises on women’s rights. It was being expected that Taliban might be less restrictive towards women in exchange for international aid and recognition. But daily reports of new restrictions and harsh punishments to women are still surfacing across Afghanistan.
Some experts say the Taliban’s curtailing women’s rights is not just a result of their ideology but as a well-thought-out political choice.
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Linda Rivera says
Biden’s Treasury Department authorizes working with Taliban to facilitate financial aid to Afghanistan
The George Soros, Bill Gates, Obama, Fauci, Pelosi, Jihadi Joe, Kamala regime HATE America, freedom, human rights and women and girls.
They LOVE MUSLIM TERRORISTS.
Andrew+Blackadder says
Yet I see and hear women in America screaming that the USA is a male dominated society that oppresses women, while falling over themselves to defend everything that is islamic…While denigrating Israel.. Too weird…
Old Joe wants to send Millions of US$ to a country that kicked them out, humiliated them 100%, is now laughing in their faces as they demand the infidel send them money…
The Tali Boys hate women, they beat them as if they were rabid dogs but they love their wee Bachj Boys, such low life scum, and please do not call them extremist muslims as they are the true muslims, the ones doing what that hate filled book is telling them to do 100% in the name of their wee cowardly war lord.
These Tali Boys are the new Nazis of the World and if people cant see that than I dont know what they have learned from history.
US Military Vets sleep in the streets across America, get food from Charities like The Salvation Army, own nothing but what they hold close and live in fear that it will be stolen when they wake up and yet the USA Government, who sent them off to those countries, is now treating them like shit rather than handing them everything they need, but I guess Old Joe and his merry gang of bastards need the cash to send to the Tali Boys, or Pakistan, as thats what they call diversity…Am I missing something here??.
Steve says
Nice to see all those American M-16’s that Biden left behind. I just hope in both 2022 and 2024 Americans will not forget that Biden committed the most grievous of all sins. He abandoned his own on the battlefield.
As for this alleged aid who exactly is ensuring it is going to humanitarian aid?
David Grisez says
There is one big problem with providing aid to Afghanistan through the Taliban. The problem is that the Taliban will take all the money and aid for themselves and use it to strengthen their rule and further their Jihad activity and little to nothing will to any ordinary Afghanistan people. This is exactly what happens right now to aid given to the Palestinian Authority.
Az gal says
The United States, under Biden/Democrats is funding the Taliban, funding terrorism & “radical” Islam. In other words, supporting those who attacked us on 9/11, as well as financially funding Hamas, Iran & Fakestinians .
On the internet, I just had a comment deleted because I said, “The Mujahideen ie. Taliban ie. terrorists”. So, we are not allowed to call the Taliban what they are- terrorists.
BareNakedIslam says
Where did you post that?
Az gal says
Quora.