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October 30, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gregory W. Meeks and Chairman Brian Mast issued the following statement condemning the Rapid Support Forces’ escalation of violence against non-Arab communities in Sudan and urging the safe passage of humanitarian assistance to those in need:
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October 30, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after attending a House Armed Services Committee briefing with Department of Defense officials regarding the administration's military strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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October 27, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Joaquin Castro, Ranking Member of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, and Yvette D. Clarke issued the following statement ahead of Hurricane Melissa’s expected landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday.
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October 23, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today sent a letter to Chairman Mast urgently requesting the committee hold a hearing on the Trump administration’s unauthorized military strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, which were conducted without Congressional authorization and resulted in at least 37 deaths.
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House Foreign Affairs Ranking Member Meeks, Shaheen Demand Records on State’s Violation of Hatch Act
October 23, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Rubio, demanding records related to the Department's violation of the Hatch Act, when internal and external Department communications – including its website – were used to promote partisan, political messaging related to the government shutdown.
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October 22, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement in the lead-up to Tanzania’s elections on October 29th:
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October 20, 2025
Washington, D.C. — Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a second letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio pressing him to explain his claim before Congress that no deaths have resulted from the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID and deep cuts to U.S. foreign assistance.
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October 17, 2025
Washington, D.C. — Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, led a bipartisan letter to President Trump urging him to attend the East Asia Summit in Malaysia, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in South Korea, and a Quad Leaders’ Summit in India.
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October 17, 2025
Washington, D.C. — Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today issued a statement on President Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Once again, President Trump failed to deliver today on providing any support for Ukraine, and instead continues to appease Vladimir Putin through his inaction and blatant revisionist history about Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine.
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October 7, 2025
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Adam Smith; Jim Himes; Jamie Raskin; and Bennie Thompson sent a letter today to President Donald Trump demanding he provide the list of designated terrorist organizations (DTOs) he has unilaterally declared as such and provide evidence for his justifications used in several recent lethal U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean Sea.
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