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Transcript: Rep. Michael McCaul on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Feb. 9, 2025

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30 million metric tons of food sitting at a port in Houston all week because there weren't US workers to unload the food aid, food American taxpayers had already bought.

Rep. Michael McCaul : USAID has a national security mission. It is to provide stability in fragile, unstable countries, he says.

McCaul says there's a fundamental misunderstanding between bosses and operators.

Rep. Paul Ryan says USAID needs to have a strong presence in destabilized nations to keep out our adversaries.

He says the administration has provided notification and consultation with Foreign Affairs committee that I chaired.

Ryan: Putting USAID under State makes a lot of sense to me, to provide direct supervision and oversight.

Rep. Michael McCaul says he's trying to help lift the ban on refugees from South Africa .

McCaul: We promised them we would protect them when they worked with our servicemen and women in Afghanistan .

He says the interpreters, the ones who are right alongside our combat veterans, should be allowed to go forward.

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English

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31

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