Category: Politics
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VA’s Million Veteran Program
Despite current federal administration’s policies, the Veteran Administration through the Million Veteran Program (MFP) is celebrating Black History Month.
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Trump Purging Civil Servants
The Angry Response “We write to demand that you cease your purge of non-partisan, civil servants, including career professionals and independent government watchdogs, which will have catastrophic results for the American people who rely on our government for services and benefits.” [Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, February 3, 2025] Read the Entire Letter (PDF)
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DEI Backlash
Target’s recent changes to its diversity and inclusion programs have also angered some longtime LGBTQ supporters.
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Trump, Elon Musk and Republicans – Defunding NPR and PBS
Should the federal government continue to direct taxpayer money to support public broadcasting? The question reverberated through the early days of the Trump administration with many expecting the axe to fall on federal support for NPR and PBS.
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Homeland Security – Enforcement Discretion
On January 20, 2025, I signed a memorandum entitled Exercising appropriate Discretion Under Parole Authority.
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Birthright Citizenship
US Constitution – 14th Amendment, Section 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United…
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American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)
President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the latest federal stimulus bill to aid public health and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, on March 11, 2021. The plan included $350 billion in emergency funding for state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, known as the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal…
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Birthright Citizenship
President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview with “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that “you have no choice” but to deport everyone who is illegally in the United States, including possibly removing the American citizen family members of those deported.
