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US POLITICS SECRETARY OF STATE ... MARCO RUBIO Senator Patty Murray And Secretary Marco Rubio Have Fierce Exchange After She Accuses Him Of 'Outright Illegal' Acts PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roq2_KvIDWM Peter Burgess COMMENTARY I have never been a fan of Marco Rubio ... but what he now represents as the Secretary of State of the United States has me appalled! His recent appearance before the Senate oversight committee confirms all my bad feelings about Rubio. Senator Patty Murray makes Secretary Rubio look foolish and incompetent in the service of Donald Trump! Peter Burgess
Patty Murray And Marco Rubio Have Fierce Exchange After She Accuses Him Of 'Outright Illegal' Acts Forbes Breaking News May 20, 2025 5M subscribers ... 1,359,184 views ... 18K likes At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) questioned Sec. Marco Rubio about USAID. Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more: Stay Connected Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: / forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: / forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Transcript 0:00 uh Senator Murray thank you very much chair Graham Senator Chutz welcome to your new role i look forward to working with both of you secretary Rubio I am deeply concerned that you have overseen a systemic campaign to dismantle USAD impound billions of dollars that this committee actually provided and unilaterally remake the Department of State without the slightest bit of concern that you lack the authority to do that without Congress it has created chaos it's caused preventable deaths across the globe and it has undermined American leadership as ranking member shots noted what you've done is outright illegal a complete violation of bipartisan appropriation laws the Empowerment Control Act and the Anti-Deficiency Act within hours of taking office President Trump halted all foreign aid in flagrant defiance of the law now under your watch Secretary Rubio that freeze was implemented with chaos 1:02 and cruelty and then you illegally shut shuttered US ID placing everyone on leave halting life-saving work literally locking people out of the building and out of their devices even in dangerous corners of our world you paid people not to work abandoned our partners across the globe and chaotically recalled global staff putting more than600 Americans who served our country abroad in limbo and when you shut down the USA payment system you even refused to pay for services provided before the illegal freeze you fought all the way to the Supreme Court paying for against against paying for services US businesses um already rendered with funding that Congress already provided and I know you know Mr secretary but you lost and I assume you need the reminder because to this day you have not made all the payments that are required by our 2:00 nation's highest court and as a result American companies continue to lay off American workers and by the way you do continue to lose in court including just yesterday over your move to illegally replace the US Institute of Peace Leadership and in recent cases over international broadcasting now eventually Mr secretary you sent Congress notice of your intent to collapse the USA ID into state only you didn't consult with this committee that's required by law it came without justification also required by law and it came long after USA ID was reduced to rubble so sadly disregard for our laws and values to me has sort of become a pattern of your tenor revoking visas when someone writes an op-ed you don't like or reaching a secret deal to use taxpayer dollars to jail US residents in a notorious foreign prison no due process or pointlessly leaving food assistance to rotten sto in storage 3:01 actually in Dubai we now have 500 tons of high energy biscuits that expire in July they're bought they're shipped they're stored all at taxpayer expense but you've condemned them to waste and that is one example of many now another pattern that I'm deeply worried about is transparency we have pressed you for information our staffs have sent you countless emails and briefing requests so we can do our job here um there are hundreds of unanswered requests and no effort to address them and Mr secretary that's got to change even your plan to reorganize the State Department came with no information on the 270 offices you are moving to eliminate the proposed layoffs or how USAD would be merged into state i won't ask you whether impounding billions of dollars is legal it is not i won't ask you whether it's efficient to pay people not to work or fire them without determining staffing needs but 4:02 uh and I won't ask you if cutting 91% of our counter narcotic and law enforcement programs make us safer abrupt abruptly abandoning agreements with allies makes us stronger or seeding our global leadership to China makes us more prosperous of course not we know that we have worked together for years in a bipartisan way to advance US interests and fund those programs so with respect to my colleagues how long are we going to sit here and watch this silently are we going to roll over as Trump tramples our laws and undermines our US leadership burns down what we have spent decades building and let millions of people across our globe suffer and die or are we going to stand up push back assert our constitutional power of the purse and to my colleagues on both sides this is the moment to decide whether this committee continues to be a powerful bipartisan force a force that I 5:00 think we've all been proud of for a very long time a force that is focused on safety and economic strength and national security focused on leading the world in research and development and countering China and others with our soft power and our military power every single member of this committee knows what we are risking by letting this administration tear down so much on USAD and other programs we can always talk about how we can make things work better and other reforms i don't think any of us are opposed to any of those cons considerations we have been doing that in a bipartisan way for a long time but that's not actually what Trump's fiscal year 2026 budget proposes mr secretary I know you would like to give a five minute speech back to me but I only have a few seconds left and I do need some information from you as I said we have asked and have not gotten can you tell me will you share the text and details with my staff um of your agreement with 6:01 El Salvador and any other similar agents including the funding details that we need to have well first of I'd like to respond to your seven minute speech which is primarily I disagree like 99% of it it's just not true we've done nothing that's illegal we've been in comm over 600 briefings to Congress we've asked questions we've answered questions repeatedly we get hundreds of questions a day we respond them as quickly as possible and your characterization of the moves that we made Secretary I would just tell you we are here because we need the information so that we can write our budget and on a bipartisan Well you'll have the information you need to write a budget okay so will we get the uh the details on the El Salvador arrangement yes or no which Salvador arrangement uh your agreement um that you've made with them about But what agreement the president of El Salvador agreed to take in 250 gangbangers funding details we have not gotten we need to see what the costs are in there well we haven't funded that we we we've provided them law enforcement assistance i know you just claimed that we cut all this law enforcement assistance we provided El Salvador and other countries law enforcement assistance they have the right to spend that money any way they wish but they 7:01 did us a big favor it took 250 dangerous train we didn't deport any US residents no US residents were reported i can argue with you in that well not an argument but don't say we deported US residents cuz we didn't i don't deport anybody i'm not asking but we didn't deport US res i'm asking you whether we can see the details of the arrangements including the funding details i'm giving you the details the arrangements are we provide law enforcement funding to El Salvador among other countries how they choose to spend that money internally is up to them know how but I can tell you can you give me the um details on the 200 plus offices you're proposing to Sure we provided that we we need that can I get your commitment to give us those but it's part of our reorg how about the details and justifications of your proposed recisions from programs you claim are out of alignment with administration priorities are we going to get the details of that funding priorities on recisions and empowerment and things of this nature that's obviously an OM function and I would talk to them about that in regard to what's going to go on with that money i can tell you the contracts we canled and I can list to you the contracts we 8:01 canceled and the rationale why because I went through them you get those to us like today so yes and the funding arrangements that you've made that's what I'm asking for funding arrangements with who for for any of the recisions for any of the funding for any of the multiple congressional congressional directives um that you have given out so that we as an appropriations committee can make our funding decisions sure you're going to have all that information when you put together a budget thank you uh I enjoyed

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