The secrecy surrounding Kerry’s work is reaching a boiling point with the threat of a congressional subpoena.įrustrated that Kerry’s office ignored two previous requests for detailed information about its budget when his party was in the minority, Republican Rep. In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed last year by RealClearInvestigations for a breakdown on how the climate envoy’s roughly $16.5 million 2022 budget was spent, the State Department said it could not comply with the request until April 2025, months after both the 2024 election and the expiration of President Biden’s current term.
His office has stonewalled requests for budget and staffing information from legislators and government watchdog groups.
It has refused to specify lists of people he is meeting with and who is advising him as he circles the globe. While Kerry trumpets his meetings and appearances around the world, the State Department wraps the rest of his efforts in a cloak of secrecy usually reserved for CIA black box operations. If President Biden’s special envoy for climate was not in Washington or relaxing at his mansion near Nantucket Harbor, he could be found in Brazil, Panama, the Bahamas, or Germany. John Kerry leads an international jet-set life that might exhaust a runway model.
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