Washington, DC –Today, Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland (WA-10) issued the following statement on the President-Elect’s administration:
“Regardless of who is in charge, I will continue to do my job and deliver for the people of the 10th Congressional District.
The President-Elect, however, has nominated some of the most unserious and clearly unqualified people to join his cabinet. Anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a public health crisis waiting to happen. Matt Gaetz is a Trump loyalist with no regard for the rule of law and will bend the knee to fulfill every revenge directive of Donald Trump. Both are already raising questions of whether they can pass Senate confirmation.
In 2025 and beyond, the American people will continue to see the positive outcomes of laws and investments made in 2021 and 2022 when Democrats controlled Congress and the White House. Insulin is capped at $35 a month, prices will come down for more prescription drugs, and lower healthcare costs. The infrastructure bill will continue to create jobs and deliver more projects such as roads, bridges, transit, clean water, and internet access. We will see more manufacturing jobs return, and investment in small businesses through the CHIPS and Science Act.
The Trump Administration and MAGA extremists will lie and attempt to take credit for these strong Democratic policies that help the American people – that they voted against while also killing the bipartisan Senate border bill in 2024.
Project 2025 was a roadmap. The President-Elect has made it clear that he intends to follow through on his plans to strip away our rights, weaken our Democracy, and put extremism above the American people.”
U.S. Representative Marilyn Strickland serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. She is whip for the Congressional Black Caucus, a member of the New Democrat Coalition, and one of the first Korean-American women elected to Congress.
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