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On this Presidents Day night, a day that saw the Trump Administration fire FAA workers and the head of Social Security step down over the Department of Government Efficiency requests to access Social Security recipient information, about 700 people filed into the gym at Century High School in Hillsboro for a town hall with US Rep. Suzanne Bonamici.
Democratic members of Oregon’s congressional delegation say they are looking for ways to keep Trump in check.
“I want to say to concerned Oregonians, we are going to do all we can to stop this short sighted, dangerous anti-science agenda,” U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici said.
Bonamici said the grant reductions would kill people. “People will die if Trump and Musk go through with these cuts,” she said.
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley joined Rep. Suzanne Bonamici in calling the proposal illegal since Congress already approved the funds. Merkley said the cuts have “life and death stakes.”
The opponents of the cuts noted that research advances at OHSU led to Gleevec, which made leukemia a manageable disease, as well as a new blood test to detect pancreatic cancer and promising research on a potential universal flu vaccine, among many others.
WASHINGTON, DC [2/14/25] – Today Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) announced a series of five town hall meetings across the First Congressional District, which includes large portions of Washington and Multnomah counties and all of Clatsop, Tillamook, and Columbia counties.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (CT) reintroduced the landmark, bicameral bill,