New revelations about USAID's wasteful spending of U.S. taxpayer dollars are becoming worse by the day.

According to Fox News, USAID funds reportedly provided college funding for Al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki to attend college in Colorado.

The terrorist was killed via drone strike in 2011 when former President Barack Obama was in office. Al-Awlaki had direct contact with Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan, who committed a massacre at Ft. Hood in 2009.

As the Department of Government Efficiency continues to uncover wasteful government spending, especially within the ranks of USAID and other government agencies. it's becoming more clear that the situation was already far out of control.

What happened?

A copy of a document reportedly showing USAID funded the terrorists college education at Colorado State University quickly went viral and generated mountains of backlash.

The idea that U.S. taxpayers funded a terrorist's education on U.S. soil is beyond comprehension, but that seems to be exactly what took place.

*FLASHBACK/NEW CONTEXT*
USAID provided “full funding” for future terrorist Anwar Aulaqi to attend college in CO. Big lie-he was born in the US not Yemen. ⁦@C__Herridge⁩ and I reported on this extensively with my team ⁦@FoxNews⁩

FOIA originally obtained by Intelwire pic.twitter.com/ypm9brPY07

— Pamela Browne (@browne_pamela) February 8, 2025

Even worse is the fact that Al-Awlaki lied about being born in Yemen so that he could take advantage of USAID's funding via the State Department.

Fox News noted:

Al-Awlaki was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1971 to parents from Yemen. He was raised both in the U.S. and Yemen, U.S. media reported in 2011 following his death.

The unearthed document previously was reported by George Washington University's research and archival institution, the National Security Archive, Fox Digital found.

The National Security Archive reported in 2015 that "the document lists Anwar’s birthplace incorrectly as Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, which he later said was a deliberate falsehood offered at the urging of American officials who knew his father so that he could qualify for a scholarship reserved for foreign citizens."

Social media erupts

Users across social media had plenty of feedback regarding the college tuition situation.

"I had to pay for my college tuition. And I went twice for degrees. This is ridiculous that foreigners get everything free," one X user wrote.

Another X user wrote, "Even if he was Yemeni, why should the US government pay for his education?!?"

It'll be interesting, and probably disgusting, to see what else we funded through USAID.