Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivers testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The U.S. Senate as a whole and members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee specifically, have lost millions of dollars wealth for themselves and their families as a result of Rubio eliminating USAID. As a consequence, while they cannot publicly showcase that specific motive for opposition, the committee as a whole is not happy about losing a substantial portion of their stakeholder interests.
The families of all the senate committee members exist inside the think tanks, NGOs, political orgs, PACs and lobbyist companies for various foreign governments. Just like Q-Anon advocate ¹Mike Flynn recently taking a job that pays him $100,000/month to lobby for the Republic of Srpska (aka ‘Serb Republic’, for advice, counsel and introductions), so too all the family members of the senate leverage their DC connections to foreign governments for personal gain.
Thus, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now being questioned by the very Senators he has defunded. WATCH (prompted):
¹Yes, Michael Flynn signed an agreement within the Trump administration not to lobby for foreign governments; but that was only a paper promise. That’s one of the reasons why it is more than a little silly for people to mention Flynn’s name as a potential DNI nomination.
The clip of Rubio vs. Rosen (D, NV) is good fun: https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/2061909906249105559
They are all shoveling our money out the back door.
Your money? YOUR MONEY?!?
Who do you think you are? A taxpayer or something?
All Your Money Are Ours!
You little ungrateful peon citizen!
Oh, hey, don’t forget to vote for me on November 3rd, okay?
Thanks. Love ya lots!
-your Senator
As a group, I respect vagrants on the street more than U.S. Senators.
Wasn’t Flynn one of the people caught up in the lawfare wringer for a long time? Makes me wonder whether his current lobbying work might be the result of trying to recover from what had to be a huge financial hit. Wouldn’t be the first time someone who was financially stressed tilted to the shady side, especially if his family took collateral damage. Not excusing, but I remember seeing him all over the news cycle and feeling sympathy at the time for the massive sh*tstorm he was in and wondering how you recover from that.
There’s a whole lotta silly out there though. The same silly that I still see touting Flynn as a great patriot. Still saw sillies touting Trey Gowdy for AG when Blondi got canned. Scary
Is that Rubio’s kid falling asleep behind him?
Yes, looks like Anthony.
Plays football and coaches tend to wear those kids out.
Glad I’m a wimp and never played. : )