Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast issued the following statement after the House voted in favor of a bill sponsored by Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) to ensure no more U.S. tax dollars fall into the hands of the Taliban after the Biden administration paid the terrorist regime millions of dollars following the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. "This bill makes sure not a single penny of American taxpayer money ends up in the hands of the Taliban"not directly, not through back doors, and not via weak-willed foreign governments or shady NGOs," Chairman Mast said. "If you're funding the Taliban, you're no friend of the United States." This issue has been a key focus for House Republicans since last Congress when lawmakers were made aware that weekly cash shipments of nearly $40 million were being sent to Afghanistan's Taliban-controlled Central Bank.