Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee wanted to scrutinize all USAID line items for waste during a hearing Thursday, but Democrats were “trying to gloss over everything,” Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Newsmax on Friday.
The Pennsylvania Republican, speaking on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” a day after his committee was examining spending by USAID, said that Democrats’ conduct during the hearing was “shameful.”
“Ultimately, it is $40 billion of taxpayer money that goes through USAID, and we want to scrutinize this,” said Mackenzie. “We found these wasteful programs. They want to nitpick all the details. But at the end of the day, they’re just trying to gloss over everything, saying ‘nothing to see here. Keep this gravy train moving.”’
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