The President made a critical mistake. And Congress isn’t letting him off easy.
Because House Republicans have Joe Biden backed into a corner with this serious demand.
You would be forgiven for thinking that the Biden administration had absolutely zero role to play in the disgusting attack against innocent Israelis on October 7th, 2023, at the hands of radical Islamic terrorists in Hamas.
But there’s growing evidence to suggest otherwise — that the Biden administration may have been at least indirectly responsible for the horrific surprise attack that day.
How would that be? Well it all goes back to Joe Biden’s decision to resume funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that goes back to when he first assumed office in 2021.
Donald Trump previously defunded and stopped all U.S. taxpayer dollars from making its way into the hands of UNRWA as there was growing concern that UNRWA was abusing grants and donations.
Sure enough, earlier this year, reports from all over the world started coming out that workers for UNRWA were likely directly involved with the terrorists in Hamas who attacked innocent Israeli citizens on October 7th, 2023. After those reports spread like wildfire, Joe Biden and company faced immense pressure to put any taxpayer funding of UNRWA on hold while further investigations were conducted to determine to what degree UNRWA was involved in the attacks on Israel.
But now there’s a renewed interest from sitting congressmembers in why the Joe Biden administration rolled back the decision of Donald Trump to defund UNRWA in the first place. What real reason did Joe Biden and company have to do that?
James Comer, a House Republican from Kentucky’s 1st District and the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has sent a letter to the Joe Biden White House asking for answers about what facts went into the decision to resume funding for UNRWA once more. He highlights how Israeli intel suggests that much of UNRWA has connections to radical Islamic terrorists.
“Israeli intelligence further links cell phone data to six UNRWA staff in Israel on October 7, 2023, and one at a kibbutz where ninety seven people were murdered. Other UNRWA staff surveilled in Gaza discussed their involvement in the attacks, while others received text messages ordering them to gather weapons and prepare to attack,” Mr. Comer wrote in his letter.
“In addition to participating in the terrorist attacks, the dossier reveals that UNRWA employees held hostages captive, agency vehicles were used to ferry terrorists across Israel’s border, weapons for Hamas have been stored in agency buildings, Hamas tunnels run under UNRWA facilities, and UNRWA staff tried to conceal Hamas’ theft of fuel, medicine, and humanitarian aid,” the House Republican continued.
Republicans on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, led by Chairman James Comer, Friday said they are investigating President Joe Biden and his administration's funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA),…
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Crucially, Comer wrote in the letter that there have long been “suspicions that UNRWA staff have ties to Hamas and other terror groups have existed for years,” well before the 2021 decision of the Biden regime to send more taxpayer dollars to UNRWA.
James Comer and his fellow Republicans are calling into question the judgement of the Biden administration and considering whether the White House actually “adequately reviewed” the situation before making their decision in 2021.
“All of these allegations, many of which predate the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks, call into question whether the Biden Administration adequately reviewed its decision to renew funding to UNRWA,” the letter continues.
The letter was signed by 26 fellow congressmembers, including Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andy Biggs, Byron Donalds, and Lauren Boebert.
Foreign policy has been a weak point and a stain on the Biden administration’s record ever since the Afghanistan pullout disaster back in the late summer of 2021, the same year Joe Biden decided to resume funding for UNRWA.
If he had any hopes to turn the optics around on that front before the presidential election season this year, those are out the window.
Stay tuned to the DC Daily Journal.
