Biden admin slams Haiti special envoy for lying about resignation, claims he didn’t flag migration concerns
State Department spokesperson Ned Price has slammed Haiti Special Envoy Daniel Foote for lying in his resignation letter and for not properly raising his concerns about migrants leaving the country amid multiple crises.
“There have been multiple senior-level policy conversations on Haiti, where all proposals, including those led by Special Envoy Foote, were fully considered in a rigorous and transparent policy process,” Mr Price said in a statement to The Independent. “Some of those proposals were determined to be harmful to our commitment to the promotion of democracy in Haiti and were rejected during the policy process. For him to say his proposals were ignored is simply false.”
“It is unfortunate that, instead of participating in a solutions-oriented policy process, Special Envoy Foote has both resigned and mischaracterized the circumstances of his resignation,” Mr Price added. “He failed to take advantage of ample opportunity to raise concerns about migration during his tenure and chose to resign instead.”
“I’m not going to parse the contents of his resignation letter, but I do want to emphasize that we have active policy debates in this administration on a number of issues. The role of the President’s cabinet and his advisors is to provide the President with the best advice possible. No ideas are ignored, but not all ideas are good ideas,” Mr Price said.
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