- United States
- Wash.
- Letter
The corruption happening right now demands your immediate, public response. A $16 million taxpayer-funded Reflecting Pool renovation was sold to the public as a $1.5 million project and delivered a pool full of algae. The Kennedy Center was illegally renamed, a court ordered the name removed, and the board responded by draping a tarp over the building to technically comply while defying the spirit of the ruling. These aren't bureaucratic missteps — they're contempt for the law, dressed up as governance.
The White House UFC event made it worse. The Trump family's cryptocurrency company, World Liberty Financial, was announced as a presenting sponsor at 9:30 PM on a Friday — a classic document dump. That arrangement funnels UFC money directly to a Trump family business that invests in Treasury bonds and pockets the interest. Meanwhile, the administration came within inches of suspending habeas corpus after the Supreme Court ruled against them on deportations. Judges are still ruling against the policy, and the administration is ignoring those rulings too.
Your constituents are watching. Demand a full accounting of the Reflecting Pool contract, call for an investigation into the White House UFC sponsorship deal, and go on record opposing any attempt to suspend habeas corpus. The rule of law is not a talking point — it's the job.