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pnwmom

(109,675 posts)
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 08:13 PM Tuesday

The 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 Administration’s efforts to undermine Congress’s 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 inefficiency—in 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 nation’s 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 Congress’s power of the purse. The law is the law—and we demand you in your role as Acting OMB Director reverse course to ensure requirements enacted into law are faithfully met and the nation’s 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

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The Democrats HAVE been speaking out but the media has mostly been ignoring them. (Original Post) pnwmom Tuesday OP
Most people are wTching alternative media, they need to go there. Bluethroughu Tuesday #1
But why blame the corporate media SocialDemocrat61 Tuesday #2
Now, now, let's not get in the way of a good mcar Tuesday #3
Less care and but hatred with out that care.... Lovie777 Tuesday #4
I just check Seattle times thinkingagain Tuesday #5
Scream hannah Tuesday #6
It's sickening that our country is now run by entertainers. We used to have the ideal pnwmom Tuesday #7
Schumer, Murray, Klobuchar, Murphy, and two others iemanja Tuesday #8
Good. Thanks for the news. nt pnwmom Yesterday #10
***DEMOCRATS CAN USE ONLINE PROGRESSIVES FOR AMPLIFICATION*** uponit7771 Yesterday #9

Lovie777

(15,942 posts)
4. Less care and but hatred with out that care....
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 08:17 PM
Tuesday

Ya think will wake up shithole’s base?

Nope.

thinkingagain

(1,140 posts)
5. I just check Seattle times
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 09:01 PM
Tuesday

I am not seeing this yet
But they have several articles of Patty Murray speaking out against T
Can’t 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. I’ll buy your paper if you run it on a tv news I’ll watch the news
Online we will go there
Tell them that we’ll support them that way

pnwmom

(109,675 posts)
7. It's sickening that our country is now run by entertainers. We used to have the ideal
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 10:46 PM
Tuesday

of being a nation of laws, and lawyers often ran for office.

Now we're got influencers and attention-seekers.

iemanja

(55,306 posts)
8. Schumer, Murray, Klobuchar, Murphy, and two others
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 11:14 PM
Tuesday

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.

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