Rep. Don Beyer (R-VA) reacted with horror on Wednesday to a legal complaint filed against the Trump administration on behalf of an American family that had to scramble to escape Congo after X owner Elon Musk shut down the United States Agency for International Development.
The complaint in question was first flagged on X by Politico reporter Robbie Gramer and it featured testimony of a USAID worker who alleged that “the chaos of the Trump administration’s haphazard and extra-Constitutional shutdown of USAID has caused my family and me immense emotional distress by contributing to the already intense sense of panic and uncertainty of the riots in Kinshasa.”
As Reuters has reported, rioters in Kinshasa stormed embassies of multiple nations late last month to protest what they said was the Rwandan government’s support for the M23 militia movement.
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Reacting to this, Beyer expressed total disgust at the actions of Musk and President Donald Trump.
“This is an absolute scandal,” he charged. “Trump and Marco Rubio abandoned American workers and their families abroad without approving grant waivers to provide their safe return to the United States. They lost their possessions, their housing, and their pay, and the whole time Elon Musk was slandering them with bogus accusations.”