Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

letter to the editor:

Congress can’t be trusted

We know the tale about the boy who cried wolf so often that when it was finally true, nobody believed him. Such is the case now with our U.S. Congress. After years of political grandstanding, Americans don’t believe and trust Congress, as witnessed by its efforts to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

There is more at play here than politics; there is principle, on both sides of the issue. The GOP, along with some Democrats, believes the president overreached with his November 2014 executive order on immigration. And they have a case in front of a federal judge in Texas brought by 26 state attorneys general who agree with them. They want to deny the president any taxpayer funds to implement these “unconstitutional actions.” Some say, and believe, they have that right, duty and even obligation.

On the other side, holding over 30,000 federal employees hostage at the DHS for the president’s “unconstitutional actions” was blatantly unfair and demoralizing for these career federal civil servants. Passing a “clean” (meaning fully funded with no riders) funding bill through Sept. 30, 2015 (the remainder of the federal fiscal year), is a principled legislative action.

Recall the president threatened to veto any bill that was not clean.

Let’s see if he signs the bill sent to him Tuesday.

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