How Sen. Chris Van Hollen plans to flex Democratic power on the foreign aid front
NPR reports that Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat challenging Chuck Schumer for Senate majority leader, is positioning himself to flex Democratic power on foreign aid as ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee overseeing the State Department and what remains of USAID. Van Hollen claims USAID cuts have killed over 700,000 people and says that if Democrats win the majority he plans hearings, legally binding safeguards, and an investigation of the damage, though not a return to the agency as it was.
