1.DOGE is a ‘non-governmental organization.’ No background checks were done on Elon Musk’s ‘assistants’ who sent to agencies to ‘find waste.’ Who has any concerns about citizen’s privacy?

2.Eliminating an organization established by President Kennedy (USAID) and supported by both parties since? Capriciously stopping funding on a legally contracted service by the government is illegal, per the Supreme Court’s 1819 decision in Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward.

3.As for delaying Cabinet appointments in the Senate when that body abandons precedent, calls no witnesses to testify, has no background checks performed by the Justice Department and, when there is negative testimony, completely ignores it?

4.Dr. Fauci is a licensed doctor who has studied communicable disease for decades. He is a professional and was asked what to do in a medical crisis. COVID-19 was just that – a global pandemic. Trump trashed protocols developed under George W. Bush’s tenure in the Oval Office early in his first term.

5.No one committing crime is being ‘protected.’ The Fourteenth Amendment states that any person in any jurisdiction of the United States at the federal, state or local level has the protection of the law. This applies to any human being.

Everyone has the right to worship and be educated appropriately. Not harassment! Speaker Mike Johnson scuttled the immigration reform bill before the election. I hope you catch my drift.

Diane Starkey

Rochester