1. United States
2. Fla.
3. Letter

I am writing in response to your 10/27/2025 Webster Wire to express my sheer disappointment in your continued partisan fealty and insistence that everything is the fault of the Democrats. As a registered independent, I am disgusted by partisanship that hinders service of the American people. You say you’ve done your job in passing a “clean, short-term, non-partisan funding bill” and that its failure to pass in the Senate is due just to “play[ing] politics.” Here’s the thing: if it can’t pass in the Senate, that means you didn’t do your job. Our great country is built on the premise that Congress will negotiate, but you’re behaving like a child who wants everyone in the group to go to Chuck E. Cheese and refuses to even listen to other options. If you’re truly a believer in “if any would not work, neither should he eat,” insist to Speaker Johnson that he stop canceling your sessions. Don’t take your ball and go home; have ongoing discussions and negotiations with other Representatives on what may need to change. Furthermore, as a Christian who claims to love the truth, why are you repeating the lie that the USDA can’t use its contingency fund to keep SNAP going? Per the non-partisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on 10/27/2025, this claim “stands in opposition to the law and prior practice, including by the Trump Administration itself.” Please choose to do what’s right. When I married my husband in 2015 and moved to FL, his FL-native family gushed for years over your strong character and impeccable ethics. I am not seeing any of that, and it grieves the Holy Spirit within me. You can do better.