Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata railed against President Joe Biden, at a House Foreign Affairs hearing, for his reversal in deciding on a massive expansion of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. KHJ News Washington DC a correspondent Matt Kaye reports…
The hearing was about China’s malign influence in the Pacific and the US effort, through FAS Compact negotiations, to push back.
But Congresswoman Amata complained that President Biden was doing the Pacific no favors with his decision to expand PRIMNM by more than half, further eroding prime fishing grounds for the US fleet.
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Uifa’atali Amata criticized the president in uncharacteristic fashion, for not consulting American Samoa on expanding PRIMNM or allowing fishing exceptions to ease the local economic hardship…
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And what are US FAS partners to think, Amata wanted to know…
