Tag Archives: Mark Alford

The St. Joseph News-Press reports: During an extraordinarily heated town hall on Monday, Rep. Mark Alford praised Trump and defended Musk as he slashes his way through the federal workforce – including firings in the Kansas City region. At every turn, an angry crowd of dozens shouted their displeasure with the second-term Missouri Republican. “Just because you have a government …

“We all agree this is an unsustainable area that we’re in right now — almost $36 trillion in debt and we are spending more on the interest on our debt than we are going to spend on the National Defense Authorization Act this year. Over a trillion dollars. “And so we’ve got to right the ship and it’s going to …

“I’ve always thought that we should respect the office of the president, but this president is not worthy of that respect. He has diminished, he has demeaned the office. In fact, he and his family are so full of slime that Nickelodeon is going to sue for trademark infringement. “This big guy is a liar, he is a crook, a …

“I think Mike Johnson is a man of God with integrity, doing the best he can under the circumstances of a two-seat majority. And I can’t get a straight answer as to who would they replace him with? Who could get the necessary votes to pass the legislation that could advance us forward as a nation? “There is no answer …

The Military Times reports: Lawmakers moved this week to abolish a Pentagon working group aimed at preventing extremism in the military, a decision some advocates said reveals a lack of concern about the issue from Congress. House and Senate negotiators included a measure in their compromise draft of the annual defense policy bill to stop federal dollars from going toward …

Roll Call reports: Provisions to defund the Pentagon’s anti-extremism efforts are on tap for potential inclusion in the fiscal 2024 defense policy bill when members of the House Armed Service Committee hold their marathon markup session on June 21. Those amendments, along with a third to evaluate staffing levels within the Defense Department’s so-called diversity, equity and inclusion office, offer …