$1.3BILLION in taxpayer dollars funneled to China and Russia through 'pointless ... trends now

$1.3BILLION in taxpayer dollars funneled to China and Russia through 'pointless ... trends now
$1.3BILLION in taxpayer dollars funneled to China and Russia through 'pointless ... trends now

$1.3BILLION in taxpayer dollars funneled to China and Russia through 'pointless ... trends now

Over $1.3 billion has been funneled abroad to China and Russia through 'pointless projects' over the last five years according to a compilation of taxpayer-funded grants uncovered by Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa.

Nonprofit transparency group Open the Books worked with Ernst to put together a new analysis of data from USAspending.gov, which found that between 2017-2022, U.S.-funded grants and contracts amounting to $490 million were paid to Chinese organizations and another $870 million was sent to entities in Russia.

According to Ernst's analysis, the U.S. handed out millions in strange 'pet projects' to its biggest adversaries.

The study found the State Department handed nearly $58.7 million to China, and used nearly $100,000 of that sum to promote 'gender equality' awareness through a series of New Yorker magazine cartoons.

In addition, the Department of Health and Human Services shelled out over $770,00 to a state-run lab in Russia to put 'cats on treadmills.' 

'When I followed the trail, it is gravely concerning that the final destination of more than $1.3 billion U.S. tax dollars was pointless projects in China and Russia,' Ernst told DailyMail.com

'When I followed the trail, it is gravely concerning that the final destination of more than $1.3 billion U.S. tax dollars was pointless projects in China and Russia,' Ernst told DailyMail.com

Other previously unexposed grants included $51.6 million from the Department of Defense to China, which specifically allotted $6 million for tech support of the military's 'deployment and distribution command' software. 

Ernst, the first female combat veteran to serve in the Senate, flagged it should be especially concerning to Americans because the DOD inspector general has warned the Pentagon about using Chinese IT companies on government projects.

Other pockets of money went to Russia for alcohol and addiction research and to a health insurance company that was sanctioned by the U.S. in 2022 after the country's invasion of Ukraine, according to the Republican.

Ernst also flagged the already-known millions given to China's state-run Wuhan Institute of Virology through NIH

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