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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Democrats HAVE been speaking out but the media has mostly been ignoring them.
Here's a statement yesterday from Rosa Delauro and Patty Murray.
As leaders of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, we write with extreme alarm about the Administrations efforts to undermine Congresss power of the purse, threaten our national security, and deny resources for states, localities, American families, and businesses.
The President has issued a number of Executive Orders to unilaterally freeze or contravene critical funding provided in bipartisan laws, sowing chaos across states, families, and communities. In that vein, you have now issued a series of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memoranda that only further disarray and inefficiencyin particular, M-25-13, pursuant to which agencies will be ordered to stop vast swaths of federal financial assistance to states, families, and communities as of 5:00 PM ET on Tuesday, January 28, continued DeLauro and Murray. The scope of what you are ordering is breathtaking, unprecedented, and will have devastating consequences across the country. We write today to urge you in the strongest possible terms to uphold the law and the Constitution and ensure all federal resources are delivered in accordance with the law.
While we may have strong policy disagreements, we should all be united in upholding our nations laws and the Constitution. We will be relentless in our work with members on both sides of the aisle and in both chambers to protect Congresss power of the purse. The law is the lawand we demand you in your role as Acting OMB Director reverse course to ensure requirements enacted into law are faithfully met and the nations spending laws are implemented as intended . . . "
https://democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-member-delauro-vice-chair-murray-raise-alarm-new-omb-memoranda-trump
Bluethroughu
(6,460 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(3,362 posts)when its easier to attack democrats?
mcar
(43,744 posts)Dem bashing.
Lovie777
(15,942 posts)Ya think will wake up shitholes base?
Nope.
thinkingagain
(1,140 posts)I am not seeing this yet
But they have several articles of Patty Murray speaking out against T
Cant find any articles about her on Spokesman Review. Those are two of the big papers in Wa
maybe what we do is we send those articles to newspapers and the TV and say if you run this on the front page with a good headline against Trump. Ill buy your paper if you run it on a tv news Ill watch the news
Online we will go there
Tell them that well support them that way
They need to be outrageously passionate to get ATTENTION
pnwmom
(109,673 posts)of being a nation of laws, and lawyers often ran for office.
Now we're got influencers and attention-seekers.
iemanja
(55,306 posts)Held a press conference today saying they would hold up Project 25's Russell Vought's nomination for Director of OMB until Trump restored federal aid and grants.