Lisa Murkowski: “Help me end suicide. Help me protect our Native rights. Help me restore our resources for future generations. And most…”

For the past 180 years, the Smithsonian Institution has been committed to sharing objective historical evidence through research and education, not political narratives.

“I am also keenly aware that the Department’s nearly $2-billion dollar slush fund—which likely would have rewarded January 6 protesters—is only off the table because this nomination is pending and the Senate has leverage.”

“The politicization—even weaponization—of the Department did not start with this administration but has accelerated during it,”

The country needs an Attorney General who will check the worst impulses of this administration. I hope Mr. Blanche is able to achieve that, if confirmed, but I simply do not have confidence that will be the case.