If the USA starts playing cricket more seriously, ICC is going to benefit a lot from them because looking at the USA, a lot of other countries are also going to be very interested in cricket. But that is not happening. The USA is just here because ICC is giving them a shitload of money. Those types of money are not even being given to the top-tier African teams. And the USA is getting that money for free. I wouldnt have any problem with this type of money actually including the popularity of cricket in the USA. But that did not happen either.
Back in 2000, Jag Mohan Dalmiya (then president of the ICC) announced that he will make the United States as a priority market for cricket expansion. More than two decades have passed, and there has been no growth at the grassroot levels. US team is entirely made up of former U-19 and first class cricketers from India, Pakistan and West Indies. And the USACA is one of the most corrupt cricket boards in the word. Over the years, more hundreds of millions of USD in funds were provided by the ICC, and most of this remains untraced and unaccounted.