Rep. Waltz goes off on Secretary of State Blinken: How does he 'collect a paycheck with a straight face'?
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Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., sounds off on Secretary of State Antony Blinken in light of stunning testimony from a House hearing on the botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
REP. MIKE WALTZ: I think at this point we have to go after the State Department's budget. I'm talking to appropriators about it. We have to zero this funding out until we can certify it's going to the right people. And even then, I don't know if that's even possible. And oh, by the way, the other thing he testified, the inspector general yesterday, at the current rate, it'll take 31 years to get out the people that we left behind. And that makes me want to take this podium and throw it through a window. It's wrong. It's infuriating. And I don't know how Blinken can collect a paycheck with a straight face every day and why he hasn't resigned for leaving these people behind and leaving Americans behind.
The special inspector general charged with oversight of U.S. taxpayer aid to Afghanistan on Wednesday slammed the Biden administration for an "unprecedented" lack of cooperation with his watchdog office.
Sopko called on lawmakers to end "obfuscation and delay" by the State Department in turning over information that would allow him to conduct full oversight over the more than $8 billion in U.S. funding made available to the Afghan people since President Biden withdrew military forces from the country in 2021.