US representative for Pennsylvania, Scott Perry, has alleged that some of the $697 million funds from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) may have ended up with Boko Haram in Nigeria.

The funds, which were for the Women’s Scholarship Endowment and also Young Women Lead, were donated annually by USAID.

Perry, at a congressional hearing, alleged that some of the funds were diverted to terrorist training camps and madrasas linked to ISIS-Khorasan and Boko Haram, amongst others.

He said this following an investigation launched by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

He said, "Who gets some of that money? Does that name ring a bell to anybody in the room? Because your money, your money, $697 million annually, plus the shipments of cash, funds madrassas, ISIS al Qaeda, Boko Haram, ISIS Corazon, terrorist training camps. That's what it's funding.

"If you think that the program under operation, enduring Sentinel, entitled women's scholarship endowment, which receives $60 million annually, or the young women lead, which gets about $5 million annually, is going to women who, by the way, if you read the Inspector General's report, has told is telling you that the Taliban does not allow women to speak in public. Yet somehow you're believing, and American people are supposed to believe that this money is going for the betterment of the women in Afghanistan, it is not. You are funding terrorism, and it's coming through USAID.

"It's not just Afghanistan, because Pakistan is right next door. USAID spent $840 million in the last 20 years on Pakistan's education-related program. It includes $136 million to build 120 schools, of which there is zero evidence that any ever were built.

"Why would there be any evidence the inspector general can't get in to see him? But you know what? We doubled down and spent $20 million from USAID to create educational television programs for children unable to attend physical school. Yeah, they can't attend because it doesn't exist. You pay but somebody else got the money. You are paying for terrorism, This has got to end."