As the hours stretched on during a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday, Democratic lawmakers asked the same question again and again.
The State Department had presented a sweeping reorganization plan without consulting them, the U.S. representatives said — and they wanted to know why.
“State Department officials came to brief staff earlier this week only after their reorganization had been set into motion,” said Rep. Gregory Meeks, a Democrat from New York, at the opening of Wednesday’s hearing. “That’s not consultation. That’s, to me, insulting.”
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Elissa Miolene
Elissa Miolene reports on USAID and the U.S. government at Devex. She previously covered education at The San Jose Mercury News, and has written for outlets like The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washingtonian magazine, among others. Before shifting to journalism, Elissa led communications for humanitarian agencies in the United States, East Africa, and South Asia.
