2 weeks Ago By [email protected] (Shawn Garrett)
It’s hard to imagine any greater abandonment of the Congressional oath than what we’ve witnessed recently: Our congressman, Ben Cline, standing silently by while an innocent legal U.S. resident with a wife and three American kids is forcibly deported by the Trump administration and secretly flown to a terrorist prison in El Salvador.
Likely, for the rest of his life. And you do nothing. Your compliant silence may provide shelter from Trump’s wrath, but loudly proclaims the cowardly defector you are.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia: No crime, no arrest, no trial, no conviction, no appeal. Just gone. Swept up in one of Trump’s illegal raids defying all due process.
Accused, the president and his collaborators offered nothing but lies, stubborn refusals, invented excuses, delays, and insults to the judge. Though Trump’s admitted the targeting of Garcia was a “mistake”, they falsely claimed without evidence he was a “gang member”, a dangerous criminal, and they were powerless to bring him back. Hogwash! And you, Ben Cline, sworn to uphold the Constitution, just watch and wait while congressional oversight, your job, vanishes.
Where is your outrage, congressman? Your courage has gone dark. Your voice unheard. To be sure, Ben Cline, your fingerprints are on the case.
And now, instead of demanding his return — you hide in Trump’s dark shadow, afraid to speak up to fight for the rule of law, due process, and the truth. Your constituents used to wonder how you faced people back home? But we question that no longer. You simply don’t.
What we do question, still, is what you tell your kids when they ask why you won’t stand up. John M. Givens, Salem Tax cuts for wealthy hurt the rest of us Republicans in Congress are debating a package that would provide $4.
5 trillion in tax cuts for large corporations and billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg who have facilitated the hostile takeover of the U.S. To pay for this largesse, they plan to cut essential programs from the social safety net, programs that allow the American public to thrive, like health care, nutrition assistance, child care and public education — their leader loves an uneducated public! According to one source, 70% of the Republicans’ tax cuts will benefit the wealthiest 5% of Americans.
This will drive up costs for the rest of us. I live on my Social Security. I contributed to Social Security throughout my work life of 50 years in order that people who retire could have decent lives afterwards, including myself! I will flounder if this money goes to a wealthy corporation or a millionaire — never mind the billionaires! Why do they even want my retirement money? I’m sure you can guess.
It would make more sense to ensure the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share in taxes. Our tax contributions are not mere expenses — they’re investments in the systems that allow us all to have decent lives. Margaret Smith, Crozet Congress must stop Trump’s tantrum tariffs It’s time for Congress to reassert its Article 1 powers and stop Trump’s tariff madness.
To say that Donald Trump’s announced tariffs have backfired is a monumental understatement. Retirement savings in 401k plans and individual stocks are being decimated. Corporations that rely on global supply chains are in free fall.
Friendly trading partners to the U.S. are responding with their own retaliatory tariffs.
This intolerable environment will drive the US and the global economy into a recession, or worse. The reason is clear. Trump is playing with tariffs like a toddler with a loaded gun.
He has no idea what he is doing, just incorrect theories and a boatload of grudges. (By the way, what have the wildlife of the otherwise uninhabited Heard Island and McDonald Islands ever done to deserve tariffs?) Trump’s Stupid Trade War 2.0 will harm consumers, as the cost of the tariffs will undoubtably be passed on to the final cost of their purchases, fueling the very inflation that Trump promised to quell.
Congress must reassert its Article 1 authority to set (and halt) tariffs and stop Trump before he does more damage. Tom Shafer, Roanoke Elon Musk must get out of government Between the tariffs and all the cuts to vital federal programs one thing would really make me happy: Elon Musk must GO. We don’t need corporate America messing with our government even more than they have with the lax laws that allow unlimited donations from corporations that are not individual people.
I urge people to demand to take America back. The Constitution still protects us but we have a current problem. It is time for people to be heard.
We want decent representation. We can’t just stand by and watch Musk take a hatchet to our government programs. Join your voices with neighbors and friends.
Musk must GO. Frank Mathews, Radford How is DOGE really improving efficiency? I wanted to respond to the e-mail from Rep. Morgan Griffith praising Elon Musk and DOGE.
I am fully in support of the government cutting spending and improving efficiency. My question is, how does firing thousands of government workers, then a month later rehiring them with back pay, accomplish either? Jonathan Bier, Ferrum.
