To the editor: First, President Trump illegally froze the distribution of funding allotted by Congress. He has no authority to do that. This alone is a big breach of the Structure.
Subsequent, Elon Musk’s unelected “DOGE” minions entered the Workplace of Personnel Administration and gained access to private information about millions of federal employees. They locked senior OPM managers out of their very own company’s computer systems.
Then Musk and his DOGE people took control of the U.S. Treasury payments system. They now have the ability to cease funding, have entry to details about Musk’s opponents, and — worst of all — they’ve entry to our private Social Safety and Medicare information.
None of us, not even probably the most ardent Trump voter, elected Musk. How is that this taking place? How is that this authorized? How is anybody OK with this?
Everybody ought to be talking out about this chilly, calculated, unlawful and blatantly unconstitutional energy seize. Everybody ought to be livid about Musk’s intrusion into our authorities, our information and our lives. This isn’t regular. This isn’t constitutional. We have to rise up, converse out and demand that this cease now.
Marilyn Inexperienced, Malibu
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To the editor: The facility of the press has been diluted for thus lengthy that reporter Kevin Rector’s piece on Trump “bucking” the legislation shines brightly.
I see Trump committing irrational and evil acts, and simply after I suppose it couldn’t get extra outrageous, it does. Why can’t he be stopped? Why are these shiny, well-meaning folks like former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and lots of others unable to get a consequence?
I can not ignore the parallels between the fascist strongmen of current historical past and the period of tea get together politics that in the end spawned Trump and MAGA.
In his chilling memoir of pre-war Nazi Germany, “Berlin Diary,” CBS correspondent William Shirer couldn’t disguise his uncontrolled rage and indignation over what he was witnessing. Whereas listening to nearly each phrase of Trump’s impeachment proceedings and the Home Jan. 6 committee hearings, I felt the identical. After watching many, many journalists, pundits and politicians vent their indignation, I spotted that not one particular person has been in a position to do something efficient about this risk to rational democracy.
I’m reminded of the crusty Boston lawyer who lastly stood as much as Sen. Joe McCarthy in 1954, saying in exasperation, “Have you ever no sense of decency?”
I personal an promoting and advertising company, and I consider newspapers are declining due to a failure to supply what folks need. It isn’t solely the digital ecosystem capturing consideration. Folks need the reality, but it surely should be communicated in a means they will use, not simply learn.
Kudos to Rector for his article. It stands for purpose, and I for one recognize it.
Michael Blair, Simi Valley
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To the editor: Throughout this nice nation, prisoners are waking to the information that they’ve been incarcerated for “bucking the legislation.” However, alas, for them, the penalties are much more extreme than they’re for the law-bucker in chief.
Candida Pugh, Oakland
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To the editor: Did you vote for Musk? I didn’t. How did he change into probably the most influential particular person within the U.S. authorities?
What occurred to constitutional checks and balances? In simply two weeks we voting residents have misplaced our nation.
I’m scared. You ought to be too.
Jean Brandt, Encino
