Editor:
Don’t assume your Democratic member of Congress is doing everything they can to oppose Trump’s agenda (Mailbox, Feb. 3). Their voting records show otherwise. Senators Padilla and Schiff both voted to confirm Marco Rubio, who shut down and is now dismantling USAID, leaving millions of hungry children in the lurch along with trafficked women in Latin America and Eastern Europe and participants in the middle of trials for treatments of cholera, malaria and tuberculosis.
Padilla approved Doug Burgum for secretary of the interior, who has ordered increased fossil fuel leases on public lands. Schiff voted for Sean Duffy, secretary of transportation, who issued a disturbingly dystopian memo instructing staff to prioritize areas with high marriage and birth rates, and is letting Elon Musk, who has no experience, redesign the nation’s air traffic control system.
Trump is steamrolling his destructive agenda to get ahead of public opinion and political repercussions. Schiff and Padilla may think their yes votes on bad nominees will get three Republicans to vote no on worse ones, but that bipartisan world no longer exists. Republicans wrote the playbook on how a united minority can use parliamentary tools to bring Congress to a near standstill. It’s time for Democrats to stop being polite and use it.
Wendy Ring, Bayside
This article appears in Step Aside Prop. 47, Proposition 36 Has Arrived.
This is why we needed and should have KATIE PORTER as our Senator.
Shift and democrap party screwed her over just like they did with Bernie.
NONE IN OFFICE NOW CAN BE TRUSTED.
Ask Huffman WHY HE STILL SUPPORTS GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS.
I’ve asked but GET NO ANSWER.
Also, get little to no help with any VA connected proble,s of which there are hundreds.
So, remember what George Carlin told us over and over years ago….they don’t give a shit about you. They own you. They just want to keep getting reelected. It’s all an illusion..