Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., the incoming chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, blasted Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars sent to Afghanistan after it fell to the Taliban. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., the incoming chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, blasted Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars sent to Afghanistan after it fell to the Taliban.