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Despite his evasiveness on some questions, the attendees were clearly thrilled to see Khanna and appreciated that a member of Congress had flown over to hear them out.

“You don’t think he’s overcompensating do you?” a former GOP member of Congress asked me.

He’s a longtime member of Congress turned senator who tends to his state and has an expert understanding of the budget and appropriations.

The worst I’ve heard about him comes from former Republicans and Trump supporters, including a former member of Congress who describes Trump as “a monster. I was literally sick to my stomach when he said ‘we’ may put homegrown Americans in El Salvadoran jails.

Van Hollen's rebuff came a day after another US member of Congress, West Virginia Republican Riley Moore, was allowed by Salvadoran authorities to enter the prison.