GOP lawmaker pulls measure to allow Marco Rubio to revoke US passports

Brian Mast changes course on provision to give Rubio power to revoke US passports over terrorism support allegations

The chair of the House foreign affairs committee moved to cut a contentious provision from legislation that would have granted the secretary of state sweeping powers to revoke US citizens' passports over allegations of supporting terrorism.

Representative Brian Mast, a Florida Republican, filed an amendment to eliminate the measure from his department of state policy provisions act, a bill meant to reform the state department in the Trump administration's image, after widespread criticism from civil liberties advocates, according to the Intercept.