I appreciate that, and I will commend you to a letter that, Secretary Haaland, you received along with other Secretaries in the Cabinet from the Governor of the State of Alaska outlining the extent of the concerns and the issues, also asking for updated inventory and action plan.
Murkowski highlights concerns from Alaska's Governor regarding contamination issues.
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“The politicization—even weaponization—of the Department did not start with this administration but has accelerated during it,”
I look at the War Powers Resolution, and it’s not ambiguous. It requires the president to terminate hostilities within 60 days absent congressional authorization.
It doesn’t appear to me that it puts us in that much of a different position than prior to the beginning of the war.
Last week, I raised this issue with Secretary McMahon, and I’m pleased she agreed to expedite the obligation of the funds for the Alaska Native Education Program grants that Congress appropriated earlier this year.
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