Rosa DeLauro: “cuts of this magnitude would take back our progress at a time when we should be fighting for more investment in our…”

From the outset, I think there was a sense that, finally, we were looking at standing up a program that was specific to specialty crop farmers. And that’s incredible, because … nothing trickles down for them, and so this was really one of…

This is a vital check on executive power that is long overdue.

The test will be a simple one: Are you sufficiently loyal to the president? If the answer is no, it will result in the denial of lifesaving disaster relief, funding for research into cures, the closure of Head Start offices, and more.

When would you reevaluate budgets? Who would check the executive branch? What if Congress never weighed in?