Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is demanding the State Department hand over information after it held therapy sessions following Donald Trump’s presidential victory.
The letter, obtained by The Washington Free Beacon, requests that the House Foreign Affairs Committee be briefed on the matter, receiving answers as to how many therapy sessions occurred, what materials were used during the sessions, and how much the therapy sessions cost.
“I am concerned that the Department is catering to federal employees who are personally devastated by the normal functioning of American democracy through the provision of government-funded mental health counseling because Kamala Harris was not elected President of the United States,” the letter says.
“It is disturbing that ostensibly nonpartisan government officials would suffer a personal meltdown over the results of a free and fair election, something the United States champions around the world,” Issa added. “It is unacceptable that the Department accommodates this behavior and subsidizes it with taxpayer dollars.”
He noted if the Department cannot “follow through on the American people’s preferences, they should resign and seek a political appointment in the next Democrat administration.”
According to Issa, the Department is not obligated to “indulge and promote the leftist political predilections of its employees and soothe their frayed nerves because of the good-faith votes of – and at the personal expense of – the American taxpayers.”
