The form provided by the National Security Archive confirms that Anwar al-Awlaki was qualified for an exchange visa and that USAID was providing ‘full funding’ for his studies at Colorado State University
Each new day brings endless examples of the misuse of US tax dollars through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as DOGE investigates corruption and fraud in federal agencies.
A new allegation is that the agency allegedly provided “full funding” for al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki to attend Colorado State University (CSU).
Al-Awlaki, an American citizen born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
Al-Awlaki was a central figure of al Qaeda known to have had contact with Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan as a “spiritual advisor” before Hasan’s attack at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, which left 13 people dead and injured more than 30 others.
A USAID form from June 1990, obtained by Intelwire through a FOIA request, was shared by reporter Pamela Browne on X.
The form alleges al-Awlaki was reportedly granted full funding to attend CSU with the financial help of the State Department by fraudulently claiming he was a Yemeni national to qualify for an exchange visa.
The New York Post reports:
“This form, dated 1990, confirms that Anwar al-Awlaki was qualified for an exchange visa and that USAID was providing ‘full funding’ for his studies at Colorado State University,” the National Security Archive reported in 2015 accompanied by a copy of the document.
“The document lists Anwar’s birthplace incorrectly as Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, which he later said was a deliberate falsehood offered at the urging of American officials who knew his father so that he could qualify for a scholarship reserved for foreign citizens.”
“The document reports al-Awlaki fraudulently reported he was born in the Yemen capital Sana’a and was studying civil engineering at the Colorado university. When asked to list an address, the document reports that al-Awlaki was in the care of “USAID/Sana’a.”
It does not appear that USAID investigated or questioned Al-Awlaki’s background to confirm whether he was eligible for the aid.
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JD Vance sends constitutional law experts into meltdown amid fears Trump will defy judges
President Donald Trump’s public challenge to the judicial branch of government is triggering a liberal meltdown among Democrats and constitutional scholars across the country.
Trump’s special appointment of billionaire Elon Musk to run a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) sparked a flood of legal challenges, followed by judicial rulings trying to slow down his efforts.
Now, Vice President JD Vance – who studied law at Yale – has raised the stakes and criticized judges on social media for issuing rulings to halt Trump’s executive orders and actions.
‘If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal,’ Vance said. ‘If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal.’
Trump agreed with Vance’s assertion, while speaking on Air Force One.
‘The day you’re not allowed to look for theft and fraud etcetera, then we don’t have much of a country,’ he said in response to a question from DailyMail.com. ‘No judge should be allowed to make that kind of decision. It’s a disgrace.’
Democrats continue to slam Musk and his team as they scrutinize the federal government, acting swiftly to cut government grants and reduce the workforce.
And on Monday alone, five different federal judges ordered halts on Trump’s actions.
That included his directive to end birthright citizenship, slashing funding at the National institutes of health, a freeze on federal grants, and his firing of the government’s ethics czar.
One federal judge also temporarily restricted DOGE’s access to the Treasury Department’s payment and data systems.
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How FEMA spending on migrants exploded under Biden
Elon Musk is targeting what he says is out-of-control spending by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on migrants.
He has plenty of places to start. Federal spending on migrants skyrocketed under President Joe Biden, often in obscure ways.
The current crisis started in 2019, when President Trump — then in his first term — asked Congress for additional money to handle the influx of migrant children.
Democrats, who falsely claimed Trump was “caging kids,” took their time giving him the money to help. In summer 2019, $30 million was added to FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program.
Trump asked for EFSP to be ended in his FY 2020 and FY 2021 budget requests as duplicative of other federal activities, but as Ronald Reagan explained, “a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.”
Consequently, EFSP received $125 million in FY 2020 and $130 million in FY 2021.
Money pit
After taking office, President Biden pushed for legislation called the American Rescue Plan.
ARP appropriated $400 million for EFSP, plus an additional $110 million for “humanitarian relief,” which became a separate line item, EFSP-H.
Already a money pit, this is where things start getting ridiculous.
With millions of migrants flooding over the border, by 2023 the ESFP-H line item had morphed into the FEMA Shelter and Services Program. As a fact sheet explained:
“SSP bolsters the capacity of states, localities, tribes and nonprofit organizations to receive noncitizens after they have been processed by DHS. It also ensures appropriate coordination with and support for state, local and community leaders to help mitigate increased impacts to their communities.”
Note the use of “mitigate” and “impacts” in that passage, and couple it with the fact that this is administered by the emergency agency, and you’ll realize it’s all a tacit admission that the Biden-Harris migrant surge has been a disaster, both for the country as a whole and for the cities and states that are struggling to keep up.
Some $363.8 million was made available for SSP in FY 2023, broken up into two tranches, one of more than $291 million and a second of $77.3 million-plus.
Beginning in April 2024, that was increased to $640.9 million, administered through two separate programs.
Monstrous growth
Nearly all of that money is headed to states (Arizona alone received $19 million in FY 2024), cities (Los Angeles got more than $21 million in last fiscal year), and counties (El Paso hauled in $16.69 million for FY 2024), who were happy to get another federal gusher.
When you hear critics say that the Biden-Harris FEMA has “spent more than $1.4 billion since the fall of 2022 to address the migrant crisis,” you’ll know where the figures are coming from.
What began as a $30 million allocation to solve a temporary problem in 2019 now has its own program, its own bureaucracy and its own $640 million budget.
This monster must be tamed.
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