 Neighbors, I’m sending another newsletter one day after the previous one to fix a mistake and to comment on some of the craziness coming from the Trump administration. On Monday, the Federal Office of Management and Budget sent a vaguely worded two-page memo to all federal agencies directing them to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance" that could conflict with our current President’s agenda. Thankfully last night, a Judge temporarily blocked this funding freeze. It certainly seems to me to be unconstitutional to ignore laws passed by Congress. I share the anxiety and fear many of you have expressed about what the next four years may bring and how they will impact our community. If you see or feel impacts, feel free to reach out to my office. It will be important for all of us to stay in communication with each other. I am committed to using every lever of power we have at the state level to protect people, the rule of law, our state progress, and our representative democracy. This actually reinforces why I am taking the legislative action of staying away from the state capitol until we can negotiate a power-sharing agreement predicated on insisting House Republicans respect election results and not overturn an election (Shakopee - Rep Tabke). There were a couple photos that were left out of the January 28th newsletter, below are those photos with corrected captions. |