- United States
- Ore.
- Letter
An Open Letter
To: Sen. Merkley
From: A constituent in Portland, OR
February 14, 2025
I'm deeply upset to see that you don't think that USAID and foreign aid aren't worth the fight right now. USAID exists and is funded at the behest of Congress. m to attack other agencies after they succeed with USAID. If you don't fight DOGE and the Trump Administration's attack on one agency and their congressionally approved funding you're setting a precedent for the They will come for Social Security and the VA and the Postal Service. They will come for public schools and the CDC and the NIH. You have to fight everything. That is your job right now, no matter the inconvenience or seemingly small size. if Trump won. I am not interested in decorum and Senate norms and whatever else you think you're upholding. Democrats warned that we'd be in a fight to save democracy He won. The flight is here. Act like it.