House Republicans brought the receipts to this week's "USAID Betrayal" hearing exposing the U.S. international aid agency's widespread waste and abuse of American tax dollars.

Amid intense examination of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)'s spending spree, Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), a majority member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, listed off more ways USAID has wasted taxpayer money.

According to the congressional committee's findings, USAID spent:

Among other expenses, USAID used:

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During the congressional proceedings Thursday, minority member Rep. Bill Keating (D-MA) cracked a circumcision joke when he argued against "these draconian changes" to USAID's multi-billion-dollar budget.

"Do it the right way!" Keating said of spending cuts. "All those things you do, all the little, small cuts—I won't say anything about circumcisions being a small cut."

Via press release, majority member Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) revealed that since 2022, USAID made payments to an organization led by an anti-Israel rapper who has written, produced, and performed several antisemitic songs, in which he called Israelis "cannibals" and "animals" as well as compared Gaza to Auschwitz. According to LinkedIn, American-born rapper Raffoul Saadeh is the executive director of a Palestinian NGO called Tomorrow's Youth Organization, which received $3.3 million in funds from USAID for a Middle East Partnership for Peace Act (MEPPA)-affiliated program that trains female entrepreneurs, per grant records.

Lawler, citing three of his songs ("Scars of Gaza," "From the Ghetto," and "Tears over Palestine"), said Saadeh "advocates for Jew hatred in his music." Saadeh's song "Scars of Gaza" contained the lyrics: "Auschwitz reincarnated brought back to life by the victims who were burned by the Nazis." A music video of that song on Saadeh's now-deleted Facebook page ended with a call for violence. In "Tears over Palestine," Saadeh rapped: "Imagine Arabic Anne Frank writing her journal / Imagine Arab babies getting tossed in infernos / The Holocaust of Palestine / What a vicious circle."

"[W]e need to get to the bottom of why the Biden administration was funding Jew hatred," Lawler urged.

As previously reported, USAID also doled out massive sums of foreign funding for Sesame Street programming in the Middle East, including:

The investigative body additionally identified other questionable USAID expenditures: