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BumRushDaShow

(146,796 posts)
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 05:58 AM Tuesday

House Democrats call for urgent hearing on Trump plans for USAID

Source: The Hill

02/03/25 6:06 PM ET


Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee are calling on Chair Brian Mast (R-Fla.) to convene an urgent hearing with senior Trump administration officials, raising concerns over potentially illegal efforts to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), joined by Democratic members of the committee, urged Mast to convene a hearing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Peter Marocco, director of foreign assistance, within the next two weeks, with lawmakers set to go on recess on Feb. 13.

The letter comes as Rubio, appointed acting administrator of USAID, has sent notice to Congress that U.S. foreign assistance doled out by USAID is under review “with an eye towards potential reorganization.” “As you know, USAID is by statute an independent establishment outside of the State Department. Any proposal to modify that structure requires an Act of Congress,” Meeks wrote in the letter.

The Hill reached out to Mast’s office for comment. Mast said he supports ending USAID as a separate entity and would likely support it being moved under the State Department.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5124297-democrats-urges-usaid-hearing/



Link to House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats PRESS RELEASE - HFAC Democrats Urge Chairman Mast to Convene Urgent Hearing on Trump Administration’s Gutting of American Influence Around the World

Link to House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats LETTER (PDF) - https://democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=E2F2FC8D-A235-4DA7-BD17-A605277485E4
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House Democrats call for urgent hearing on Trump plans for USAID (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Tuesday OP
RECESS !?! dweller Tuesday #1
The President's Day federal holiday is on February 17 this year BumRushDaShow Tuesday #2
Yes, we SHOULD go on "Recess"... Think. Again. Tuesday #3
THERE SHOLD BE NO RECESS!. CousinIT Tuesday #4
Do you rememeber this from almost 8 years ago? BumRushDaShow Tuesday #6
Good trouble! Bayard Tuesday #9
"lawmakers set to go on recess on Feb. 13." Sorry never made it past that. Autumn Tuesday #5
No more recess until the constitutional crisis is over. Magoo48 Tuesday #7
K&R orangecrush Tuesday #8
File for a TRO based on HIPPA violations and get some time to get our ducks in a row. 33taw Tuesday #10

dweller

(25,555 posts)
1. RECESS !?!
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 06:17 AM
Tuesday

Already ?

Maybe the American people should ‘go on recess’ until congress gets its shit together and cans e skum (N - ZA)



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BumRushDaShow

(146,796 posts)
2. The President's Day federal holiday is on February 17 this year
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 06:33 AM
Tuesday

so they tend to take off that week and claim to be participating in a "District Work Period", where they are supposedly "back home talking to constituents".

Think. Again.

(21,338 posts)
3. Yes, we SHOULD go on "Recess"...
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 06:49 AM
Tuesday

An economic boycott would force the corporations to re-think their support of trump.

CousinIT

(10,861 posts)
4. THERE SHOLD BE NO RECESS!.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 07:07 AM
Tuesday

And they need to convene THEIR OWN HEARING. NO. Republican will meet with them about anything.

Autumn

(47,205 posts)
5. "lawmakers set to go on recess on Feb. 13." Sorry never made it past that.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 08:25 AM
Tuesday

Going on recess with everything that is fucking going on? That is fucking sick.

Fuck me. Fuck us all.

Magoo48

(5,837 posts)
7. No more recess until the constitutional crisis is over.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 09:22 AM
Tuesday

Hearing, really? How exactly will that impede the fire raging across our constitution?

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