“This bill also includes my legislation, the Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act, which targets the flow of illegal arms fueling Haiti’s crisis and holds accountable those elites enabling it. It also restores the State Department’s Office of Haitian Affairs, a bipartisan rebuke of Secretary Rubio’s rushed and illegal reorganization. And the NDAA preserves the Rangel, Payne, Pickering, and Veterans Innovation fellowships, sustaining bipartisan commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion at the State Department.
“While the reauthorization of the Development Finance Corporation was not finalized on a fully bipartisan basis, I was able to secure essential guardrails to protect its core mission and safeguard taxpayer dollars. While I support what good provisions there are in the final package, it is in the interest of the American people for the NDAA to remain a bipartisan process.”
