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.”