End Waste of Taxpayer Dollars in Afghanistan!

Statement

Following my recent meeting with John F. Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, I have begun work with a bipartisan group of lawmakers to target and defund the Afghanistan Reconstruction Program, one wasteful project at a time.

The current situation is outrageous. Since 2002, U.S. taxpayers have shelled out almost $100 billion on reconstruction projects never begun, completed, or accounted for in Afghanistan.

That's in addition to countless billions in military support and who-knows-how-much in unconscionable cash payments to President Karzai and various warlords around the country.

According to Sopko, Afghanistan is becoming a number one "narco state" due to fast expanding production and trafficking of heroin and other illegal and dangerous drugs. Transparency International has rated Afghanistan the most corrupt country in the world, tied with Somalia and North Korea.

Worse yet according to Special IG Sopko, U.S. efforts to stop corruption, bribery, and outright robbery involving those funds are in disarray.

Even more disturbing, there's another $12 billion in the pipeline, sure to be added to the waste unless we do something about it.

We need to use that money to rebuild America and generate American jobs -- not fill the pockets of corrupt Afghan officials and warlords.

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