US Aid to Afghanistan at Risk of Funding Taliban, Watchdog Warns.

The special inspector general for Afghanistan's reconstruction, John Sopko, accused the Biden administration of blocking his efforts to track assistance to Afghanistan, warning that American taxpayer dollars were probably ending up in the hands of the Taliban. Sopko blamed weak oversight practices within the international organizations handling Afghan assistance and the "abject refusal" of the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to allow oversight. The Biden administration pushed back on the allegations, effectively accusing the inspector general of misrepresenting the extent to which the administration has accommodated his requests and presuming a broader mandate than he was afforded under the law.