U.S. Agency for International Development paid Ukrainian models and designers to go to Paris Fashion Week, Sen. Joni Ernst says

Sen. Joni Ernst (R- Iowa ) revealed that USAID did not report expenditures in public databases and tried to block her staff from seeing them, claiming they were classified.

Ernst revealed that the aid intended to alleviate economic distress in the war-torn nation was spent on such frivolous activities as sending Ukrainian models and designers on junkets to New York City , London Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week and South by Southwest .