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Moosepoop

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4. Yep.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 12:32 PM
Mar 2025
https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/analysis/marco-rubio-is-simultaneously-serving-in-three-government-roles-heres-why-thats-a-problem/

The top Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee on Monday demanded information about Marco Rubio’s “triple hatted” appointment at the State Department, U.S. Agency for International Development and the National Archives and Records Administration in light of the destruction of documents at USAID earlier this month.

In a letter to Secretary of State Rubio, who was confirmed to that post by the Senate earlier this year but since then has been appointed acting USAID administrator and acting archivist, Reps. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., called the arrangement “grossly inappropriate,” given the three agencies’ statutory independence and separate missions.

“As you know, the archivist of the United States is chiefly responsible for overseeing federal government records management and preservation, including the planning, development and administration of federal policies and procedures for such federal records,” Connolly and Meeks wrote. “Your temporary appointment to NARA represents a fundamental conflict of interest that undermines Congress’ intent with the Federal Records Act and the integrity of NARA.”

This conflict was in stark relief earlier this month, when a memo to some of the small fraction of remaining on-duty USAID employees on March 11 called on them to collect classified documents from safes across the agency’s headquarters and destroy them, using both shredders and burn bags.

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