Watch a Democratic senator tear 'pathetic' Marco Rubio a new one

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio lied up a storm on Tuesday while being confronted by Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland during testimony in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Van Hollen slammed Rubio for his role in dismantling the United States Agency for International Development, harming vulnerable populations abroad, and enabling President Donald Trump's inhumane and unconstitutional deportations of immigrants and activists.

“Like the McCarthy era witch hunts of the 1950s, your campaign of fear and repression is eating away at foundational values of our democracy,” Van Hollen said.

He quoted attorney Joseph Welch’s famous line to the communist-obsessed Sen. Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare of the 1950s: “Have you no sense of decency?” Then he turned that same question on Rubio and added, “You have shown in your words, in your actions, what the answer is.”

After being dressed down so thoroughly, Rubio began spewing Trump administration talking points about alleged government waste at USAID.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/20/2323382/-Watch-a-Democratic-senator-tear-pathetic-Marco-Rubio-a-new-one

[senseandsensibility]

1. I heard Rubio's response

Paraphrased it was this: If you regret voting for me, that means I'm doing something right. The people we've deported are gang members including the one you had margaritas with.

So...did Van Hollen get a chance to respond to those lies or were they just left hanging out there?

[Attilatheblond]

2. Yeah, Lil Marco, let's talk about alleged government waste at USAID vs REAL waste of letting already bought food rot!

NEVER let these clowns get away with 'alleged' while they are doing real waste.