Van Hollen Admits El Salvador Trip Was Funded By Taxpayers, Ignores Questions About Abrego Garcia’s ‘MS-13 Ties’
OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
5:42 PM – Monday, April 21, 2025
Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen admitted on Sunday that taxpayer funds paid for his trip to El Salvador in an attempt to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran illegal alien who was deported from the U.S. after being deemed a member of MS-13 by the Department of Justice.
In a Sunday interview with Shannon Bream on Fox News, Van Hollen (D-Md.) made the admission.
Van Hollen noted that the trip was “officially cleared, you know, [as a] Congressional trip” in response to Bream’s question regarding who paid for the airfare, food, and drinks, among other utilized services.
“So taxpayer dollars?” Bream asked, confirming what most people already knew, but had no proof of.
“Yes, like every other trip,” Van Hollen replied.
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