U.S. Sen. Katie Britt took Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to task over a social media post by New York progressives on Monday.

Funding from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was reportedly recently terminated after it was discovered that the organization was being run. Employed more than a dozen Hamas members Those who participated in the atrocities against Israel on October 7th.

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said funding should continue despite the new and troubling details.

terminate support for @UNRWA It is unacceptable that it is the main source of humanitarian aid for over 2 million Gazans.

In a body of 13,000 UN aid workers, it is indefensible to risk starvation to millions of people due to serious charges against 12 people.

The United States should immediately resume aid.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 29, 2024

Britt quickly discovered the irony of AOC's logic about who can and cannot be trusted with American taxpayer money.

The far left will defund the police but will fund terrorists.

Ten percent of UNRWA staff in the Gaza Strip have ties to terrorist organizations, and 49% of UNRWA staff have close family members who are members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad. UNRWA cannot be trusted to spend a cent of US taxpayers' money. https://t.co/eFBqicF7j1

— Katie Britt (@KatieBrittforAL) January 29, 2024

The U.S. State Department suspended funding after reports linked U.S. aid funds to brutal Hamas attacks that flared up again last October.

“While we review these allegations and the steps the United Nations is taking to address them, the State Department has temporarily suspended additional funding to UNRWA,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that of the 12 staff involved in the deadly violence, “nine were immediately identified and fired,” one was “confirmed dead,” and “the remaining two… His identity is still being determined.”

The United States is the largest donor to UNRWA, providing $340 million in 2022 alone, according to PBS. Several other countries, including the UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, Japan and Italy, also suspended aid after the allegations were made public.

Austin Shipley is a staff writer at Yellowhammer News.