Taliban fueled by millions in US tax dollars funneled through UN: SIGAR report
Thomas Stevenson
Burchett has said that $45 million is going to the Taliban every week from the coffers of US taxpayers.
Millions in US taxpayer dollars have been going to the Taliban, according to US House Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) as well a recent report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released in December. Burchett has proposed a bill to stop funding from being taken by the Taliban in Afghanistan but said it was blocked by the Senate Democrats last week.
After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan during former President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal in 2021, the United Nations began facilitating the transportation of cash to purported humanitarian aid in Afghanistan through NGOs. However, much of that funding has ended up in the hands of the Taliban.
A December 2025 SIGAR report found, “Despite Afghanistan falling to the Taliban in 2021, the United States continued to be the nation’s largest donor, having disbursed more than $3.83 billion in humanitarian and development assistance there since.”
“Although UN shipments of U.S. currency to Afghanistan had stabilized the Afghan economy, SIGAR found that they also benefited the Taliban,” the report added. There was $120 million in March of 2025 alone that went to Afghanistan through the UN.