The Trump administration's push to dismantle USAID, as well as the freeze on foreign assistance, is making it harder to track if humanitarian assistance funded by tax money is being misused, the agency's inspector general's office in a new report. In some cases, it added, it will make it more difficult to make sure that money is not going to terror groups, especially as the members of the unit within the agency tasked with that job has been told not to report to work.
The agency's independent watchdog said that even though it has "identified significant challenges and offered recommendations to improve Agency programming to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse" in the past, the recent decisions have had negative effects on oversight.
