A foreign aid agency under scrutiny from President Donald Trump did not properly vet humanitarian groups it funded to prevent sexual abuse of Ukrainian war victims, a watchdog report says.
A Thursday report by the agency’s inspector general office at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) found the agency did not follow its own policies on approving aid for war-torn Ukraine and refused to fully follow the report’s recommendations to fix the problem. The probe adds to ongoing criticism of USAID’s handling of taxpayer dollars as the Trump administration moves to shut the agency down – to the dismay of some on the left.
The inspector general’s office found that more than 90% of Ukraine funding awards “between February 2022 and September 2023” lacked “prevention and reporting measures” required to show that aid groups were protecting Ukrainians from…
