Recently we witnessed reports of Utah congressmen’s support for the recently passed “Big Beautiful Bill.” Unfortunately, they completely ignore the future costs to citizens and the ongoing lasting damage to our country that is being inflicted by the most openly-corrupt president in U.S. history.
Amazingly, our congressmen profess to care about the Constitution and our democracy while they continue to support a president who openly aspires to be the first truly autocratic American president.
Republicans want us to believe that President Trump’s immorality, dishonesty, lack of decency and integrity is all OK. In the meantime, he continues to ignore the Constitution, undermine the judiciary and thumb his nose at the rule of law, discard the separation of powers, and openly disregard any respect for the emoluments clause as he and his family continues to openly enrich themselves from the presidency.
After the Musk-based search for “waste and fraud” fiasco, Trump now has the gall to saddle taxpayers with the cost of almost a $1 billion to prepare his gold-appointed retirement jet airplane and another $200 million for a lavish ballroom addition to the White House. Meanwhile, millions could die as the result of the termination of USAID assistance, according to a study by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. And we cannot forget what William Falk, editor-at-large of The Week magazine, has called the “Trump gang’s pervasive ineptitude.” RFK Jr.’s war on vaccines is just one example!
Some of us are not as stupid as our congressmen apparently think we are. Do they really think we don’t see what the president they support is doing to the country? I wish they would stop trying to convince us that they care about America and would do something — anything — to stop the Trump madness and really help us!
Don E. Gardner, Ogden
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