If you were so bold to have listened to the audio clip, you and the rest of the boneheads assuming they were asking for tax dollars to attend would have heard another story. Even with having private funding for the trip, they raised ethics as the reason they are not to attend officially as a Congressman.
GEEZ, PEOPLE! DO A LITLE HOMEWORK FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFETIME!
You took the words right out of my mouth. I don’t think anyone who is ranting on this thread listened to the clip. Amazing.
It’s so much more fun to speculate wildly.
My comment still stands. They can go as private citizens, not under any official saction of the government.
This is a privately-organized rally in a foreign nation.