Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has threatened those who were responsible for the abuse of taxpayer funds at the “Democrat-run” U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) with criminal referrals.
Greene, chair of the House Oversight Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Subcommittee, warned that USAID officials were engaging in “potentially criminal” activity.
After several witnesses gave their opening statements during the hearing on the use of foreign aid, Greene said:
“This committee, based on this hearing and witness testimonies, will consider recommending investigations and criminal referrals.”
Greene spoke after one witness said that USAID supported terrorists, lacked oversight, and engaged in “potentially criminal” activities.
During his opening statement, Greg Roman, the executive director of the Middle East Forum, said:
“This committee should take action to ensure that the Department of Justice acts on it and does everything [in] Congress’s power to not just investigate but refer criminal actions to the proper authorities.”
Greene said that USAID was taken over by partisan interests.
“The Democrat-run USAID should not get to use our federal government, our U.S. taxpayer dollars, as their party piggy bank to push their radical agenda in countries that we have no business giving money to,” Greene continued.
“Maybe we should consider investigating whether USAID funding has made it back to Democrat campaigns,” she said.
“Has it affected elections?”
“Greene, during the hearing, suggested President Biden used USAID to protect his son, Hunter Biden, by calling for the removal of a prosecutor general of Ukraine, Viktor Shokin, while serving in the Obama administration,” The Hill reported.
“Greene repeated a frequent GOP talking point that Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion of a USAID grant if Shokin was not fired, claiming the then-vice president did so because the prosecutor was investigating Ukrainian energy company Burisma, on whose board Hunter Biden served.”
The Georgia conservative asked Max Primorac, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation:
“Is USAID supposed to be used as leverage by a president to protect his son?”
“No, we call that corruption,” Primorac said.
At the end of the hearing, Greene echoed her own call for criminal referrals.
The DOGE subcommittee chair said:
“What we have heard today is that USAID has been used as a tool by Democrats to brainwash the world with globalist propaganda to force regime changes around the world.”
“But if USAID funded terrorism that resulted in the death of Americans, then this committee will be making criminal referrals,” Greene added.
In a statement to the media on Wednesday, Greene also warned of “criminal referals.”
She noted that “the American people are watching.”
WATCH:
USAID is completely corrupted.
When American taxpayer dollars are funding terrorist organizations, leading to the death of American citizens, something is extremely wrong.@DOGECommittee will be releasing its post-hearing review next week, and if necessary, criminal referrals. pic.twitter.com/hkSVJ9FwrZ
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) February 26, 2025
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