Jared Huffman: “Would you rather have $1.3 billion of guaranteed funding every year, or $320 million in discretionary authorizations…”

When it comes to Trump, everything must be bigger, shinier, and all about him—including the White House. He's turning a place that belongs to the American people into his very own DC Mar-a-Lago on the taxpayers' dime.

We may not be able to undo the damage they've done to us and the national celebration, but we can do something very patriotic by reminding everyone that our government belongs to all of us, not to Donald Trump.

Once you siphon off the funds and supplant the real bipartisan commission with this new entity and you declare it the main platform for our nation's celebration, and you award all these shady contracts to your friends, you can do anything…

The one thing we can do is make sure the American people know what they’re doing in our name and with our tax dollars.