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The State Department fired 200 experienced U.S. Foreign Service Officers today. No Administration has been more dismissive of our nonpartisan career diplomats. Shameful.
He painted her for three months โ stopping every time the sirens came, starting again every time the sky cleared.
Artist Oleksandr Korban created the mural "ะัะปัะฝะฐ" ("Free") on a wall in Kyiv's DVRZ district. No projector. No tracing. Straight onto the surface, freehand. Dozens of air alert interruptions. The girl has no name โ she is, the artist says, every Ukrainian woman who waits, hopes, and believes.
That's not just paint on a wall. That's what staying looks like.
Today I offered an amendment in the Appropriations Committee to stop the Trump Administration from canceling federal grants based on how a state voted in the 2024 election.
A federal judge has already ruled that this is exactly what the Administration is doing. Not canceling grants based on need. Not based on merit. Based on the electoral map. The court found it violates the Fifth Amendmentโs Equal Protection Clause.
My amendment was one sentence. It blocked federal funds from being used to cancel or pause grants based on the political leanings of a state.
Every single Republican on the committee voted no.
Let that sink in. Every Republican in the room looked at a federal court ruling that the Administration is violating the Constitution, and voted to let it keep happening. They chose loyalty to a president over loyalty to their oath. They chose party over the Constitution they swore to defend.
That means theyโre fine as the Administration keeps pulling grants from states that didnโt vote for Trump. Research funding, public safety dollars, infrastructure money, disaster aid. All of it stays on the table. All of it can be yanked based on nothing more than how a state voted.
The Constitution gives the power of the purse to Congress, not to the White House. Today, every Republican in that room handed it over anyway, as they have been doing for the last year.
ICE has violated almost 100 court orders.
Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order.
That's an out of control agency that shouldn't get another dime.
@DougJones What would you call someone who deliberately leaves out pertinent information in an effort to mislead and deceive people ... a politician.
Paying people to CAUSE chaos is creating false flag events... which the FBI does all the time... Why I doubt the whole truth will be told.
@0nlyk1tt3n Trump would interupt and talk over His Holiness, while calling him names like Low IQ. Trump does not understand moral authority because he has no moral center
@Provokethoughtz In 1994, I visited the Pine Ridge Reservation to educate my 15yo son. We paid our respects at the Wounded Knee Memorial & left tobacco on the chain link fence. We went to a school where only one toilet worked. We had one of our deepest talks on the drive back to Rapid City.