How America quietly funded Iraqi Sesame Street for years
Democrats have run to the defense of USAID spending $20 million to produce a slick Iraqi version of Sesame Street after Elon Musk's DOGE exposed the use of US taxpayer money to fund foreign influence campaigns. USAID handed the grant to a nonprofit called Sesame Workshop, which delivers a humanitarian the 'early childhood development initiative' known as Ahlan Simsim, or 'Welcome Sesame'. The project is made up of direct healthcare outreach programs, alongside a version of the popular kids program screened to around 29 million children in the Middle East and north Africa, often in areas where schooling has been disrupted by war.
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