Knowledge: What is happening ?

     Your vote may no longer matter if pocket rescissions aren't stopped

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A topic that gets limited attention is the completely lawless pocket rescission effort by White House to cause even more mass deaths in other countries.  In detail, 5 billion dollars of foreign aid is at risk.

Congress and the public will be EVEN MORE sidelined and subverted if this is allowed to stand.

Congress controls all money, White House must spend it as specified by Congress.  By using illegal project rescisions, White House can do whatever it wants.  Current plan is to defund all foreign aid and frankly 

IT is important to appreciate that there has ALREADY BEEN a big rescission bill passed to defund foreign aid.  The bill also defunded public media: National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting.

USAID lost their approved congressional funding in a LEGAL (but highly partisan) attack on factual information this summer

Aug 29, 2025 -Politics & Policy

What is pocket rescission, Trump's bid to cancel $5 billion in foreign aid?

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Knowledge: What do members of National Guard think about being deployed into cities?

 Reddit provides some insights

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How expensive it this?  What else could be funded with 1 million dollars a day?  Vaccines, head start, food assistance, education aid for poor kids and disabled kids, housing the unhoused in DC could cost 4 times less.

The deployment of the national guard is a massive waste of taxpayer money.

Its actual purpose is to scare the public into submission, to accept a national gestapo-like police force.  

We must ALL be brave NOW-because the alternative is far more scary.

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Taxpayer Trade Offs: D.C. Occupation vs. Public Housing

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https://ips-dc.org › fact-sheet-taxpayer-trade-offs-d-c-o...

Aug 21, 2025 — In all but two states, the daily cost of the D.C. troop deployment is greater than the daily cost of operating public housing for all unhoused ...

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Trump’s invasion of D.C. costs over $1 million a day. What could that fund instead?

Simply housing people without homes would be less expensive. That’s true across the country, including Ohio

Hanna Homestead

September 3, 2025

Knowledge: letters to the editor

 Letters to the editor are often noted by our lawmakers and inform the community

Below, is a selection of some recent ones from our community.  

Please excuse oversights.

Reddit is another way to get opinions. 

Opinion: What do Utah’s congressional representatives stand for?

Published: Sept 16, 2025

By Teneille Brown, Mackenzie Heinrichs, Rebekah Cummings, Frank Brannan

Teneille Brown is the James I Farr Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law; Mackenzie Heinrichs is the director of the Immigration and Refugee Law Clinic at S.J. Quinney; Rebekah Cummings is the chair of the Utah Education Caucus and was the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor in 2024; Frank Brannan is the director of Utah Alliance Coalition. All opinions in this article are the writers' own and do not represent the views of their employers.

“At what point will you part ways with Trump and stop supporting his policies?”

The Utah delegation has rubber-stamped nearly all of Trump’s appointees and bills. We believe they have excused his abuses of power. This complicity has enabled Trump to rob from the poor to give to the rich, to ignore court orders, to stop funding critical federal research, to send troops into cities as a dictatorial stunt, to suggest taking over local elections and to detain people without due process.

If you had asked any one of our representatives a couple of years ago, under a different administration, if they would have supported any of these authoritarian moves, the answer would have been a resounding “no.” And yet, here we are.

Alexander Hamilton said, “Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything.” That is why it’s important for our representatives to answer these critical questions: What do you stand for? Will you support anything President Trump does going forward, or do you have a principled limit as to how far you will let him go in disrespecting due process? Utahns of all political persuasions who respect democracy and the rule of law deserve an answer.