About 300 people have thrilled this week the American representative of the representative Sara Jacobs in El Cajon, many in search of responses and comfort of the Democratic MP for the way of repelling President Trump’s agenda.
Voters wanted to know: What can we do realistically to combat the policies of the Trump administration? Do recent demonstrations really work? Will Congress Republicans stand against Trump?
“Who is our chief? We are walking, we write postcards, we hit the doors, we make telephone calls and we feel defeated,” asked Annemarie Sundquist, resident of Jamul and chief of a local defense group, asked Jacobs during the Tuesday event. “We are looking for a leader who will fight for us and lead us and tell us what we have to do to continue fighting, to continue moving. Are you a leader? “
Three months after Trump’s second term, the crowd reflected the frustrations and the energy that animated residents of other halls in the city of local legislators, mobilized thousands of people to protest and attract the indignation and fear of what federal financing cuts could mean for local workers, health benefits, research and more.
Many participants wanted to know: what can they specifically do to stop Trump?
“I am tired of making a donation, because everything I make is a donation, then they ask for an additional $ 15,” said Mark Offman, a mesa resident who said he was donating to the aclu.
Jacobs assured voters that public pressure attracted the attention of the congress and encouraged them to share with elected officials the “real human impacts” of the cuts offered in programs like Medicaid or Head Stancing.
Jacobs said that Republican colleagues had shared concerns in private with her on what Trump was doing and stressed that this week, a member of the Nebraska Congress became the first republican legislator to publicly call the dismissal of the defense secretary Pete Hegseth.
“The more we can make sure that our republican colleagues intend to talk about the real human impact, and not only somehow hearing their voters who, in some cases, are in fact satisfied with what is happening,” said Jacobs, “I think we are going to start to see more of them get up.”
A concrete action that Jacobs recommended: file a law on freedom of information, or foia, to all the information that the team led by Elon Musk known as the Government Department of Efficiency has about you.
Jacobs said that she and her colleagues had not been able to obtain a lot of information on the team’s criteria to decide which programs to flow, or the data he keeps about voters.
“After discovering the information they have about you, please let us know,” said Jacobs.
Some voters have asked Jacobs what it would take to adopt legislation it presented this month to prohibit federal money from being used to finance DOGE activities. Jacobs said she had several Democrats on board but needed at least three Republicans and has not so far.
Of the more than 20 people who asked questions, two said they disagreed with Jacobs and both expressed their concern about what they called excessive government spending.
“Public spending is an engine of inflation, so why would we not want to discover waste, fraud and abuse and eliminate it?” President Allyson Smith, a Republican from El Cajon, said about Doge while some public members groaned.
Jacobs disagreed that DOGE focuses on efficiency and said more public spending is good when it is for things that have a high return on investment, such as early childhood education and preventive medical care.
The problem is not that the government is passing by itself, but what the government chooses to spend, she said. Although the budget proposed by Congress Republicans would reduce many programs, it also calls an increase of $ 100 billion in defense spending over the next decade and an additional $ 90 billion for the Department of Homeland Security, in addition to billions of tax cuts.
“For me, it shows that in fact, this effort is not really to make the government more effective for everyone. It is a question of finding savings so that they can pay tax reductions for people who do not need tax reductions,” said Jacobs.
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California Daily Newspapers
