Mast Places Hold on Wasteful State Department Spending

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast notified Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power that he has placed a hold on hundreds of millions of dollars in disbursements on radical State Department social initiatives authorized as part of a last minute woke spending spree by the outgoing Biden Administration.

“The American people sent a clear message in November that they will no longer tolerate uncontrolled spending on programs that are incompatible with the United States’ interests abroad,” Chairman Mast wrote in his letter notifying the officials of the holds. “As their representative, I cannot, in good faith, allow you to spend millions of dollars to combat climate change in the war-torn Middle East or fund LGBTQI awareness in Zimbabwe – both of which are among your recent proposals.”

Read the full letter here.

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