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With all the chaos of this Administration, I know you all have lots of questions and concerns about the state of our country and where we’re headed.

Last week began with me anchoring the Congressional Black Caucus Special Order Hour opposing the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the Department of Education.

Last week in Washington, the House did not conduct much legislative business when Speaker Johnson cancelled votes after failing to kill a bill allowing new moms and dads in Congress to vote by proxy.

Last week in Washington came with shocking news from The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg that he had accidentally been added to a Signal group chat between our nation’s top security officials discussing a pending attack on Yemen. “Signalgate” dominated the week — and the calls to my office from outraged constituents. 

During last week’s House recess I was back in the district sounding the alarm on the damage Trump and Congressional Republicans have inflicted on two cornerstones of well-being for every family — their health and education. 

It was a tense week in Washington as the clock ticked towards a government shutdown. House Republicans completely cut Democrats out of the process to ram through a 6-month funding bill that gave Elon Musk and Donald Trump a blank check to continue raiding federal agencies and traumatizing the federal workforce to ultimately fund tax cuts for billionaires.

During last week’s Joint Address to Congress, we all hoped to hear the President put the needs of the American people above partisan politics and his usual lies.

Instead, we got a rambling mess of a speech in which President Trump seemed more interested in creating a spectacle than actually putting forth an agenda for the American people.

In 10 days, we face a government shutdown unless Congress passes a funding bill. From day one of this Congress, Democrats have stood ready to pass a bill that lowers costs and addresses the needs of the American people.