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Interior secretary nominee Deb Haaland on Wednesday fielded another question regarding the Bureau of Land Management national headquarters in Grand Junction in the second and final day of a Senate
Mike Pompeo Spent $10,000 Of Taxpayers Money On Pens He Gave Out At Party
02/11/21 AT 11:04 PM Mike Pompeo in a November 2020 stop in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, where he was the first US secretary of state to visit Photo: POOL / Patrick Semansky
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The pens served as party favors for his Madison Dinners
State Department funds also were used for food, beverages and private contractors
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spent more than $10,000 of taxpayer’s money on party favors for guests who attended the extravagant private dinners he hosted at the U.S. State Department throughout his term.
In his first days in office, President Joe Biden issued a flurry of executive orders to nullify his predecessor s policies on the World Health Organization, climate change and immigration, to name just a few.
On China, in striking contrast, Biden s incoming cabinet backed the Trump administration s assertion that Beijing was committing genocide of Uighurs in Xinjiang, and released a hard-line statement on Taiwan that could have been issued any time in the past four years.
Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State, and Jake Sullivan, the National Security Adviser, have not echoed the highly ideological tone of their Trump administration counterparts on the ruling Chinese Communist Party. But the trend is clear nonetheless, that Beijing should expect more continuity in China policy from Washington rather than the committed effort in multiple other policy areas to erase Donald Trump s legacy.
Saudi Arabia presented a new peace initiative on Monday to end the war in Yemen, which would include a nationwide.
The comments by Sullivan may indicate a disagreement among Biden administration officials on how to approach the Iranian nuclear program.
While Biden has indicated support for rejoining the deal, the administration has stated that a precondition would be full compliance by Iran with the original agreement.
Secretary of State Tony Blinken has been more skeptical of swiftly returning to the nuclear deal, saying that a U.S. return is still far off.
“Iran is out of compliance on a number of fronts. And it would take some time, should it make the decision to do so, for it to come back into compliance and time for us then to assess whether it was meeting its obligations,” he said during a news conference at the State Department on Jan. 27. “We’re not there yet, to say the least.”