Washington, DC — At present, Congresswomen Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) and Sara Jacobs (CA-51), Rating Member of the Home International Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, issued the next assertion after Donald Trump issued a day-one govt order dissolving the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement:
“We’re dissatisfied—however not stunned—that Donald Trump dissolved the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement this week given his previous vile feedback about African nations and full disregard for the strategic significance of the continent.
“We anticipated {that a} potential second Trump Administration might disband this Council out of ignorance about the important thing function that African diaspora communities play in strengthening ties with the continent. So, final October, we launched laws that might be sure that this Council stays a continuing in our engagement with Africa, no matter who the president is.
“The choice to abolish this council on his first day in workplace sends a transparent but disturbing message: this president doesn’t care about Africa or the African diaspora. This can be a grave mistake that endangers U.S. nationwide safety and misses a key alternative to put money into the way forward for the worldwide financial system. If this administration refuses to reverse course and re-establish this Council as quickly as attainable, we implore Congress to move this important laws.”
