Thursday, October 29, 2026

The Snapshot

Thursday, October 29, 2026.  Chump's DESPERATION TOUR continues with smaller and smaller crowds, Todd Blanche's questionable actions demand the appointment of a special counsel, Alex Pretti's parents want justice, and much more. 





Chump continues his DESPERATION TOUR trying to shake off his dismal polling numbers and also convince Americans that the economy he's destroyed is doing just great.  But he flounders to stay on message and he has this habit of making rude revelations.  For example, Lim Hui Jie (CNBC) reports:

U.S. President Donald Trump has reiterated his claim that the Iran war will end "whenever I want it to," but insists that Tehran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
Speaking at a rally in Lubbock, Texas, Trump said "Somebody asked me before, 'When will the war in Iran end?' I said, 'Whenever I want it to end.'"

Whenever I want it to end.  

It started February 28th.  That was 243 days ago.  He started it at night while Americans slept and those who were awake might have caught his videotaped announcement of the war.  No, that's not how the US government typically announces wars.  They also typically have to do a roll out on the wars.  But Chump avoided those things because he was convinced this was what was needed.  He started this war of choice and it has destroyed the American economy.  Prices increased on everything.  

And he said it would be a few weeks.  It hit the eight month mark yesterday.  

"Whenever I want it to end."

The American people didn't want it to start and they've been calling for it to end since it started.  

Lim Hui Jie adds:

Currently, Trump's approval ratings stand at 32%, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll on Monday.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, said on Oct. 12 that the war was costing American families an average of $2,000 so far, where $1,100 comes from higher energy costs, $540 from heightened interest rate costs and $360 due to increased military spending.

And this as the financial cost of the war continues to mount.  Phillip Nieto (DAILY MAIL) reports:

Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has now spent more than $47 billion waging the war in Iran, handing Donald Trump a damaging new spending figure just days before the midterms.
The number, drawn from Pentagon data obtained by Reuters, is more than 25 percent higher than the $37.5 billion estimate Hegseth gave lawmakers over the summer. 
The Defense Department has not made the estimate public. It comes as Republicans face the real possibility of losing their majorities in both the House and the Senate in the November 3 election.

In other bad news for Chump as he jets around the country campaigning for himself, Brandon Lingle (SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS NEWS) reports:

Pentagon watchdogs have received at least five reports of fraud, safety issues, bad parts or ethics concerns involving President Donald Trump's Qatari dream jet and Boeing's Air Force One replacement program at Port San Antonio.
Since late 2024, the Defense Department's inspector general's office has logged four complaints and one disclosure from Boeing Co. involving problems with the presidential aircraft programs, according to 90 pages of newly released records.
The heavily redacted documents provided to the San Antonio Express-News reveal previously undisclosed allegations and at least one criminal investigation potentially involving the presidential jets. 
Pentagon and service IG offices investigate fraud, waste and abuse, but typically do not discuss ongoing cases or unsubstantiated claims. The complaints came from anonymous sources, including a Boeing employee in Everett, Wash., and a Pentagon contract analyst in San Antonio. The records do not show whether any of the allegations were substantiated. 









Meanwhile, Monday Joanna Coles observed of THE DESPERATION TOUR,  "If you also pan the crowd when Donald Trump is speaking now, he started making these strange noises, you see the crowd behind him looking really embarrassed for him."  Jason Miciak (RAW STORY) shares his observations of the ones 


You can see it in the eyes of the people aligned behind President Donald Trump as he makes his campaign speeches nowadays, not so much dead eyes as dread eyes, the type that question why they are at another Trump speech, what is so appealing about this guy, and whether they feel much of anything nowadays.
Donald Trump is not dead, and yet he is dead, at least politically, and all one needs is the look in the eyes of the crowd behind him. He is also deeply disturbed.
Now, of course, we have known since 2015 that something about Trump was deeply disturbing; that's not new news, as they say. But the dread in the crowds is new, or at least newer, more extreme, approaching, just approaching, some self-loathing.
Remember back when? In 2016, it was delirium as opposed to dread. Trump was larger than life. They and he lived to "own the libs," remember? When was the last time you heard, "Owned, Libtard!" Even some of us who spend our own dread-like lives swimming in political soup haven't run into that in a long time.
He has had it. He's done. Ask the crowd. Or at least he is making noises that most associate with dying. During his last three speeches, he's made some noise, a weird "guhggu" — certainly not a word, kind of like if a guy could hiccup and burp at the same time. The noise itself comes out sounding as if IT is confused as to its purpose, unleashed into our atmospheric ocean with no purpose, no meaning, a lot like his current presidency.



MOTHER JONES notes Garrison Hayes and David Corn on STRESS TEST talking about THE DESPERATION TOUR:

Trump, meanwhile, has been obsessively commenting on physical anatomy—specifically “asses”—in one of the stranger closing arguments in modern American political history. “This has to be, like, the definition of being off message,” co-host Garrison Hayes observes. “Like, definitionally off message.”  
Trump’s fixation on rear-ends extended to rapper Nicki Minaj, who appeared at a rally, where Trump asked her to stand and extolled her derriere, fueling the silly rumor she might be named press secretary after the brief tenure of Katie “Half a Scaramucci” Zacharia.“It reminds me of what happened in 2016 when Trump was campaigning and he would say, ‘Hey, where’s my Black friend?’” David recalls. For Garrison, the gambit is all-too familiar: “Here we are in the closing moments of this midterm election, and the way that the Trump administration has decided to utilize a Black person in order to, I imagine, appeal to Black voters is offensive. It’s almost a caricature of the kind of racism that has become emblematic of this administration.”



Chump's DESPERATION TOUR has seen him in Georgia twice already to campaign for his buddy Mike Collins.  Collins and Collins' campaign fit into Chump's world -- now more than ever.  THE SWAMP notes: 

As Trump-endorsed Mike Collins makes his last-ditch effort to unseat Democratic senator Jon Ossoff in Georgia, his campaign’s associates are also hard at work. Hard at work fighting abhorrent criminal allegations against them, that is.
Collins’ campaign leader—or “convoy captain”—in Cobb County, Andre Lamar Stafford, was arrested after he allegedly drove up to a bus stop just before 8.30 am on Friday, Oct. 15, in the Atlanta suburb of Smyrna. He stopped his car where an underage schoolgirl was standing, told her she was pretty, and then promptly exposed himself, his arrest warrant alleged. He was tracked by a Flock camera and picked out of a lineup by his alleged victim, whose age has not been disclosed. Stafford was accused of public indecency and child molestation and initially denied bond. Stafford, 26, claims he is innocent. However, the Cobb County arrest warrant stated that Collins’ “convoy captain” represented a “danger to a person or community.” He was later released. Oh, and did we mention that Stafford is running for a seat in the Georgia state house? So far, he’s not letting a little arrest warrant interrupt his campaign and plans to remain in his race, where he wants to oust Democrat Gabriel Sanchez.
The Collins campaign issued a statement that bravely came out against child molestation: “Mr. Stafford has volunteered on many campaigns across the state this year, including ours,” Collins said. “The charges are sickening, and if they’re true then he belongs on a list and behind bars.”
The Swamp has exposed a series of questionable characters serving as “convoy captains,” the name Collins is giving to appointed campaign leaders in counties across Georgia. The list includes B.B. Langham, a campaign leader in Richmond County, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to felony cruelty to children, along with charges of family violence and sexual battery—stemming from an incident involving his own (minor) stepdaughter. Joey Jackson, convoy captain for Jenkins County, was charged with cruelty to children. Gordon Austin, Carroll County’s captain, lost his dentist’s license after pleading guilty to fraud. And, of course, who could forget the “convoy captains” with ties to the Ku Klux Klan? That distinction belongs to Joshua Mote (Hall County) and Michael Boggus (Banks County).


Where there is sexual abuse, one finds Chump.  Let's move over to his roll dog, the late Jeffrey Epstein.  Bonded at the hip to Chump from the 80s through the 00s, the sex trafficker and pedophile is remembered for his crimes.  Something Chump will be remembered for as well.  And those crimes may include joining Epstein in the rape and assault Earlier this week, the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee issued a report which noted women coming forward to speak of incidents with Chump and Epstien.  The fact that these accusations were not released by the Justice Dept when they released 'everything' as the Congressional Act required has led them to note a cover up appears to have taken place and that a special counsel needs to be appointed to explore the events and see what happened.  One of the women, identified only as Jane, was a witness in court against Epstein's sex trafficking partner Ghislaine Maxwell.  When Todd Blanche went to speak to Maxwell in July of 2025, the transcript shows that when Maxwell would mention Jane, Blanche would make clear that they weren't to speak of her.  

Weren't to speak of her.  

Let's go to the report:


As revealed by this Staff Report, documents in the Epstein files show that then-Deputy
Attorney General Todd Blanche likely knew about certain survivors’ claims against the President
when he traveled to Tallahassee, Florida, to interview Epstein co-conspirator Maxwell in federal
prison. The transcript of that meeting shows that on at least three separate occasions, Blanche
directed Maxwell not to discuss one individual, Jane, whose report to FBI implicated Donald
Trump in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring, but whose claims were not yet known to the public. In 
other words, Attorney General Blanche may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice while
acting on a mission to protect Trump.


And this is what the Congressional report notes of Jane:

JANE DOE 1 (A.K.A. JANE) – 14 YEARS OLD
DOJ documents released pursuant to EFTA include an allegation that in 1994 at Mar-aLago, 
Jeffrey Epstein “introduced [a victim] to Trump saying ‘This is a good one, huh’ and Trump
responded ‘Yes.’”67 The victim was 14 years old at this time. As made apparent when viewed in
the version made available to Members of Congress, but not to the public, Jane Doe 1 was viewed
as a credible witness by DOJ investigators and prosecutors, and she was one of four women to
testify against Ghislaine Maxwell during her criminal trial under the pseudonym “Jane.”68 Jane’s
testimony was devastating for Maxwell’s defense. She described, in detail, abuse and sex acts that
occurred at Epstein’s properties in Florida, New Mexico, and New York, sometimes involving
Maxwell and groups of people.6
This slide deck of “Prominent Names” in the Epstein investigation, was created by DOJ
and FBI personnel in the weeks leading up to Todd Blanche’s interview of Maxwell and seemingly
initiated in “Response to 07/10/2025 Director’s call.” The slide deck includes a reference to
Jane’s account of Trump and Epstein’s conversation. Yet, strikingly, when then-Deputy Attorney
General Blanche interviewed Maxwell, ostensibly to “pursue justice wherever the facts may lead”
in the Jeffrey Epstein case, he did not ask any questions at all about Jane’s allegations. In fact,
when on several different occasions, Maxwell proactively referenced Jane, he quickly redirected
Maxwell away from any further discussion of “Jane” or her claims. 
In one instance, Maxwell volunteered to Attorney General Blanche: “I believe you’re
talking about Jane,” to which he responded “yeah” -- indicating he was aware of her allegations.
However, as soon as Maxwell began to “address that,” meaning Jane’s claims, Attorney General
Blanche cut her off and instructed her not to share specifics. At various points during the interview,  Attorney General Blanche interrupted Maxwell and instructed her not to discuss Jane's claims, for instance, saying "yeah, yeah, I don't want to get into … he said, she said." Maxwell responded "Absolutely, not. I'm not -- I don't want to go there either" and even more explicitly, "I'm not going to do that." At another point, Maxwell again raises Jane on her own and Attorney General Blanche abruptly cuts in saying, pointedly, "Let's not talk about individuals." The whole point of the conversation was not to uncover information but to create a conspiracy of silence and strategically deter Ghislaine Maxwell from sharing information that was not public at the time regarding the relationship between Trump and Epstein.
Attorney General Blanche’s actions, while perhaps not surprising given his former role as
Donald Trump’s defense attorney, potentially constituted witness tampering and obstruction of an
official proceeding—serious felonies. At the time of this interview, the House Oversight
Committee had scheduled an interview with Maxwell for August 11 -- less than two weeks later.
Blanche’s apparent instructions not to discuss a specific Epstein victim, and how that victim could
implicate Donald Trump, could easily run afoul of 18 U.S.C. § 1512, which forbids hindering or
delaying the communication of information relating to the potential commission of a federal
offense to a law enforcement officer, as well as corruptly influencing the testimony of any person
in an official proceeding -- such as a congressional interview and investigation.
Similarly, 18 U.S.C. 1505 forbids corruptly influencing, obstructing, or impeding any pending proceeding before Congress -- a crime which would almost certainly encompass indicating to a witness that they should not provide Congress with specific information that could implicate the President of the United States.



Blanche was supposedly interviewing Maxwell to find out what she knew.  In reality, he was most likely preparing her for what she would testify to (Maxwell was supposed to appear before a Congressional committee shortly after her exchange with Blanche but that did not end up happening).   Erin Mansfield (USA TODAY) notes: 


Democrats on the Judiciary Committee argue in their report that the Department of Justice and the FBI have protected Trump and stonewalled attempts to investigate Epstein's associates.
"There is more than enough evidence that many individuals other than Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell may have committed a crime," the report says. "This includes Donald Trump."
Maxwell, a longtime associate of Epstein who women have told USA TODAY participated in their abuse, is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for sex trafficking, among other convictions. She met with now-Attorney General Todd Blanche shortly before the federal government moved her to a minimum security prison.
The report says the DOJ "has actively obstructed the Epstein investigation into any co-conspirators, attempted to prevent the release of the Epstein files, and then released an incomplete and heavily redacted set to the public—all while withholding key information about Trump in the process."
It also cites DOJ policy that prohibits prosecuting a sitting president, and federal law requiring the Department of Justice to appoint an independent special counsel if performing the investigation itself "would present a conflict of interest for the department or other extraordinary circumstances."

Mrinav Dehingia (WGTC) adds, "The report doubts that the administration will take even the 'minimal step' of appointing an independent special counsel. Raskin called on Congress to obtain the 'complete files required by law' and urged an independent special counsel to investigate Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators and the department’s handling of the case."

Covering the Congressional report, Daniel Gura (RADAR) emphasizes this:

Donald Trump has been accused of sexually and physically assaulting a 13-year-old girl, RadarOnline.com can report, and then allegedly threatening to make her "disappear" if she tried to tell her story.
The allegations are part of an explosive new report from the House Judiciary Committee that claims Trump sexually assaulted at least five women years before becoming president, and all in the company of Jeffrey Epstein.
In an official complaint to authorities, a woman who was only identified as "Katie Johnson" claimed she was "enticed by promises of money and a modeling career to attend a series of underage s-x parties" at Epstein's home when she was just 13.
Trump was allegedly a guest at the parties, and Johnson details at least four separate times in which she was allegedly assaulted by the real estate mogul.


THE BULWARK addressed the new Congressional report yesterday.






A former Swiss beauty pageant contestant has accused President Donald Trump of raping her at New York City’s Plaza Hotel in 1993, providing House Judiciary Committee Democrats with a more serious account of an alleged encounter she previously described publicly as sexual assault.
Beatrice Keul, a former Miss Switzerland contestant, told Democratic committee staff that Trump raped her in a hotel suite in November 1993 after allegedly offering to help her obtain a U.S. visa and admission to New York University. Her allegations were detailed in a report released Monday, October 26, examining Trump’s past association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
According to the report, Keul was 24 when pageant organizer Jill Harth recruited her for the Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant. During a luncheon at the Plaza Hotel, then owned by Trump, Keul alleged that he approached her with promises of educational and immigration assistance. She also recalled Epstein introducing himself as Trump’s best friend and offering to arrange a visit to Mar-a-Lago.
Keul said she was subsequently invited to meet privately with Trump in an upstairs suite, believing the conversation concerned her professional opportunities. Instead, she alleged, Trump grabbed her from behind and raped her, leaving her bruised and bleeding. She characterized the alleged attack as “brutal” and claimed Trump pressured her to remain silent while reiterating his earlier promises, telling her, “The show must go on.”


This week, the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee released an incisive accounting of how Trump’s Department of Justice has managed to avoid – nothing to see here – investigating ANY of the men in the Epstein files accused of sexual assault and rape, including Trump himself. It is the most damning official document yet published, not only linking Trump to Epstein’s crimes against women and girls but accusing Trump himself of rape.

[. . .] Tal Alexander and his year-younger twin brothers Oren and Alon [were convicted] for sex trafficking. They are the only people in America, other than Ghislaine Maxwell, mentioned in the Epstein files to be investigated and sentenced to prison despite the known cohorts and fellow travelers in the files. Meanwhile, as we’ve noted before, European countries including France, England and Norway have opened investigations into high profile men, all the way up to and including the de-princed Andrew.

The brothers were convicted of federal sex trafficking. They deny guilt, but a jury convicted them of a laundry list of heinous sex offenses, mostly involving group roofie rapes and the videotaping of inert victims. Their “sex trafficking” doesn’t appear to have involved the kind of commercial sex Epstein orchestrated, just inducements to party in fancy hotels and resorts – venues that, for the women, turned out to be the horror equivalent of Bluebeard’s cave.

Since late 2024, the three Alexander brothers have been sitting in a federal prison in New York that now also houses Luigi Mangione and Nicolás Maduro. They will soon be moved to institutions where they will serve out 30 year sentences. Prosecutors had asked for life.

For more than a decade, the Alexanders occupied a privileged position in the Trump-Epstein demimonde and luxury real estate world. They were well known to Trump and Epstein, Leon Black, the Witkoffs, Ivanka and Jared (whose Indian Creek mansion purchase two of the brothers handled in an off-market $24 million deal in April 2021) and other Trump pals.

The Southern District of New York arrested the brothers in December 2024, after Trump’s second election and not long before his inauguration. Their trial commenced in January 2026, the same week the DOJ dropped a huge tranche of Epstein files into public view under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The Alexanders appear in both images and email exchanges.

But on the night of the document dump, the BBC ran images of a government spreadsheet from the files in which allegations against the Alexanders were placed just below a box naming Trump and Clinton. That box included a 14-year-old victim’s allegation that Trump punched her in the head during sex. That accuser turns out to have been a woman who, as we reported earlier this year, the FBI had earmarked as “Protect Source” and whose FBI interviews have been held back from release for unknown reasons.
The Alexander-Epstein Venn diagram is worth studying.
For at least a decade, they were millennial members of the same skeezy underworld inhabited by Trump, Leon Black, Epstein, and other horny, powerful, desiccated men. They palled around with Alex Witkoff, the son of Steve Witkoff, a billionaire real estate dealer (for whom Oren handled at least two deals in Miami) who currently serves as Trump’s Special Envoy for Peace Missions.
Oren and Tal, in red MAGA hats, were at the Trump 2016 victory party in New York, along with their boss and one of Trump’s closest pals, Howard Lorber – a scene captured on Israeli TV. After Trump lost in 2020, Oren and some of his family were guests at the White House Hanukkah party. “Spare your political views. The president just served us kosher food in his house and wished us a Happy Hanukkah,” he wrote on Instagram.
They were welcome at Trump Tower and the White House, but the brothers insist they never went to Epstein’s properties – even though one woman has claimed they raped her upstairs at his mansion.

At MEDIAITE, Ann Marie Cox notes how much of the media has been silent on the Congressional report:

These are graphic and salacious charges, the kind of descriptions whose appearance in news coverage prompts memories–and then calls to the National Sexual Assault Hotline (800-656-HOPE) spike. But that surge of calls won’t happen today, because the New York Times and Washington Post, and all the major cable networks, have covered CheesecakeGate more thoroughly than this report put together by the Democrats of the House Judiciary Committee. (A search of the media monitoring service Snapstream showed the three major cable news networks combined mentioned the rape allegation against Trump just twice, whereas the word “cheesecake” has received 368 mentions in the same span.)

Blanche is a dishonest person whose actions warrant review by a special counsel.




Attorney General Todd Blanche has long maintained that the so-called Epstein files, even those kept from the public, contain no secret information related to national security.
When the document releases began last winter, Blanche noted that the Epstein Files Transparency Act authorized withholding information in the interest of national security or foreign policy, but said, "no files are being withheld or redacted on that basis."
"There's not some tranche of super-secret documents about Jeffrey Epstein that we're withholding, we're actually not withholding anything based upon [national defense information]," said Blanche, who was deputy attorney general at the time.
But the contents of at least three documents in the massive tranche of files indicate classified information was included in files collected by the DOJ. 
One of the documents shows Blanche's Office of the Deputy Attorney General itself received classified material related to Epstein in March 2025. By law, material can only be classified for national security purposes. 
What exactly was classified and why remains a mystery. 


Turning to Chump's war on immigrants,  Julia Harte (REUTERS) notes: 

The parents of Alex Pretti, a US citizen shot and killed by federal immigration agents in Minnesota in January, criticized President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday for withholding evidence from local prosecutors who are investigating the incident.
"Our experience with the Department of Justice has left us wondering how Alex will ever get justice," Pretti's father Michael said at a press conference in Minneapolis, the first time the family has spoken publicly since his death. "Do your job and stop shielding Alex's killers," he demanded.



During a press conference on Tuesday, Michael and Susan Pretti made their first public remarks since their son’s death in January, calling for the Department of Justice to hold those involved in their son’s death accountable. The federal government has not provided them with meaningful information about the case, they said.
“At every turn, they have ignored us, misled us and shielded Alex’s killers,” said Michael Pretti. “We are a family who love this country. We trust in the institutions of this country. We believe in the rule of law – and that people should be held accountable through that law.”
Pretti, who worked at a veterans hospital, died on 24 January after being fatally shot by federal immigration agents. The Trump administration quickly painted Pretti as a domestic terrorist who was armed, and baselessly accused him of wanting to harm agents during Donald Trump’s immigration operations in Minnesota. They defended the agents and said Pretti had violently resisted.
Video footage of the incident contradicted the government account, and showed Pretti had a cellphone in his hand and did not brandish a weapon or attack agents before they shot him in the back as he lay in the street.


Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:

Top appropriators call on Education Secretary to scrap plans to refurnish her office

Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon calling on her to scrap plans to spend over $43,000 in taxpayer dollars on new furniture for her office.

“It has come to our attention that as you cut off funding for students, push out staff, and do all you can to illegally dismantle the very Department you lead, you plan to spend $43,278.64 on new furniture for your own office,” write Murray and Baldwin. “You vowed to put yourself out of a job;  now you expect American taxpayers to pick up the tab to refurnish your own office.”

“Secretary McMahon, you have asked students, families, and teachers across the country to endure extraordinarily painful cuts in the name of ‘fiscal responsibility,’ and you have pushed out nearly half of the staff at the Department… This year, you have asked Congress to slash funding for important K-12 programs and to cut funding for higher education programs by nearly $5 billion,” they continue. “But it is clear that you do not think that you should have to abide by the same rules you want to apply to others.”

Senators Murry and Baldwin conclude by calling on Secretary McMahon to scrap the planned purchases, which the Department claimed were necessary in part because the Secretary’s existing furniture “cannot be … aesthetically integrated into the agency’s new office space.” They write: “The American people are sick of the corruption, sick of the waste, and sick of the hypocrisy coming out of all corners of this administration.”

The full letter is available HERE and below:

Secretary McMahon:

It has come to our attention that as you cut off funding for students, push out staff, and do all you can to illegally dismantle the very Department you lead, you plan to spend $43,278.64 on new furniture for your own office. While schools nationwide lose out on funding Congress provided for everything from literacy programs to student mental health because of actions taken by your Department, you are wasting tax dollars on frivolous furniture purchases. You vowed to put yourself out of a job; now you expect American taxpayers to pick up the tab to refurnish your own office.

Secretary McMahon, you have asked students, families, and teachers across the country to endure extraordinarily painful cuts in the name of “fiscal responsibility,” and you have pushed out nearly half of the staff at the Department in a chaotic, illegal campaign to fire employees tasked with protecting students with disabilities in the classroom and going after predatory student lenders. This year, you have asked Congress to slash funding for important K-12 programs and to cut funding for higher education programs by nearly $5 billion—including by destroying programs like TRIO and Federal Work Study.

But it is clear that you do not think that you should have to abide by the same rules you want to apply to others. As you illegally spin off the Department’s core functions to other agencies and are forcing hundreds of your employees to move to agencies across government, apparently your old furniture cannot be moved to your new office.

We want the Department of Education to have a safe and professional office space to work from—but that must mean a safe and professional office space for every employee, not merely the Secretary. While you use Americans’ tax dollars to refurnish your own new office, you have forced your own employees to go work in offices that “are unsafe and in disrepair, with water leaking from ceilings, mold in kitchens, extreme temperatures from a failing HVAC system, insect traps filled with dead bugs and live insects in lactation rooms and work areas.” Your Department claims that the existing furniture in your office “cannot be … aesthetically integrated into the agency’s new office space.” It is unjustifiable to buy new furniture while students lose access to education services you are illegally dismantling and suffer from painful funding cuts that were not authorized by Congress.

The American people are sick of the corruption, sick of the waste, and sick of the hypocrisy coming out of all corners of this administration. They deserve a full accounting of how and why their tax dollars are being used to buy new office furniture for a secretary whose stated mission is to put themselves out of a job. We urge you to reconsider this wasteful purchase, restore Congressionally mandated funding families are counting on, and refocus your Department’s time on helping students get ahead.

Sincerely,

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