Melanie Stansbury: “to help modernize our national labs, which the Department of Energy oversees, to update our science and innovation”

“Which indicates to us that there was no good-faith effort to actually engage tribal leadership.”

Yesterday's passage of the Albuquerque Indian School Act in the House of Representatives is a major step forward in a decades-long effort to return land to the stewardship of New Mexico’s 19 Pueblos in Albuquerque.

I rise today to give an ode, perhaps a eulogy, to the downfall of DOGE and to the people's movement that brought about its demise. As we say good-bye to the departing, we take solace in knowing that our democracy endures in our people and…

That is not a failure, that is a choice.