(The Center Square) – Some of the $45 billion in American taxpayer dollars sent to the Ukrainian government as foreign aid may have been mishandled, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.

Since July 2022, the U.S. government has sent roughly $45.2 billion to Ukraine for direct budget support alone – that is, money to help keep Ukraine’s government open and personnel funded.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) oversaw the distribution of about $30 billion of that aid through the World Bank Group’s Public Expenditures for Administrative Capacity Endurance in Ukraine (PEACE) project.

The GAO’s 110-page analysis , released Wednesday, showed that despite aid contractors finding “weaknesses” in Ukraine’s internal controls for managing

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