Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., took intention at Secretary of State Antony Blinken after it was reported that the State Division held remedy classes for workers who had been upset by President-elect Trump’s election victory.
“I am concerned that the Department is catering to federal employees who are personally devastated by the normal functioning of American democracy through the provision of government-funded mental health counseling because Kamala Harris was not elected President of the United States,” Issa stated in a letter to Blinken final week.
The letter comes after a Free Beacon report earlier this month that detailed two alleged remedy classes that had been held on the State Division after Trump’s victory, with sources telling the outlet that one such occasion amounted to an info “cry session.”
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Rep. Darrell Issa argued that the reported classes had been “disturbing.” (AP Photograph/Gregory Bull)
In his letter to Blinken, Issa argued that the reported classes had been “disturbing” and that “nonpartisan government officials” shouldn’t be struggling a “personal meltdown over the result of a free and fair election.”
President-elect Trump at a marketing campaign occasion in Austin, Texas. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
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Whereas the Republican lawmaker acknowledged that the psychological well being of the company’s workers was necessary, he questioned using taxpayer {dollars} to counsel these upset in regards to the election, demanding solutions on what number of classes have been performed, what number of extra are deliberate, and the way a lot the classes are costing the division.
Issa additionally raised fears that the classes might additionally name into query the willingness of a number of the State Division’s workers to hold out Trump’s new imaginative and prescient for the company.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks throughout a ceremony on Might 10, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Kevin Wolf)
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“The mere fact that the Department is hosting these sessions raises significant questions about the willingness of its personnel to implement the lawful policy priorities that the American people elected President Trump to pursue and implement,” the letter stated. “The Trump Administration has a mandate for wholesale change in the foreign policy arena, and if foreign service officers cannot follow through on the American people’s preferences, they should resign and seek a political appointment in the next Democrat administration.”
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