There’s a law from 1961 called the Foreign Assistance Act. It established USAID, shaped much of our country’s foreign aid programs, and it also includes a measure that allows a single senator to force votes that require the State Department to produce reports on human rights.
I’m using that law to force votes on the conditions in six countries that the Trump Administration is deporting migrants to: Costa Rica, Eswatini, Mexico, Panama, Rwanda, and South Sudan.
I want to see reports on human rights abuses, due process violations, the conditions in detention centers and prisons, and human trafficking — and I also want to know the details of any agreements or arrangements Trump made with these countries.
The American public deserves to know these things.
Trump is using taxpayer dollars to send people to random countries — not their home countries from which they came — and we owe it to the American people to conduct meaningful congressional oversight here.
The American public also deserves to know if their U.S. Senator is voting *against* such reports and transparency.
This isn’t the first time I’ve pushed my colleagues to go on the record on Trump’s agenda. I’ve forced votes on Trump’s idiotic tariffs, to block the President from striking Iran without congressional authorization, and to repeal his fake “national energy emergency.”
We won’t win every vote — or even most of them. But voters deserve to know where their elected officials stand on these issues. If a member of Congress is going to stand up and say, “I’m not interested in knowing about the use of taxpayer dollars to send people to random countries” … well, that’s important information for people to have.
This won’t be the last time I force votes, either. I am committed to pulling every single lever and using every single legislative tool I can find to push back on this lawless and reckless Administration and to get my GOP colleagues on the record.
If you’re with me and you want to see this fight continue, will you let me know by adding your name?
