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Worries about the funding losses bounced off the walls at separate roundtables attended last week by U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, and Merkley, both of whom promised to work to protect federal dollars now in jeopardy.“I’m going to do all I can to maintain programs, to restore programs that invest in getting our small businesses off the ground supporting entrepreneurs,” Bonamici said.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) is a longtime champion of public education, arts funding, and student equity. She's been fighting for Title IV-A - that vital program that helps schools fund things like music, art, technology, and school safety - for years. She literally ran for Congress to replace No Child Left Behind.
“You’ve made a starkly abrupt shift from a champion to a destroyer of this important program,” said Democratic Rep. Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon, adding that students in her district were distraught.
Democrats also pressed McMahon to explain why her department has frozen or canceled millions in federal grants and contracts.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, an Oregon Democrat, for example, reminded McMahon that during her Senate confirmation hearing in February, she promised to disseminate any funds appropriated by Congress regardless of any directives from the president to do otherwise.
Organized by Emily Smith, a Beaverton-based green coffee trader who works with Hacea Coffee Source, the event brought industry concerns directly to Bonamici, a Democrat who represents Oregon’s 1st Congressional district and is the newest member of the Congressional Coffee Caucus.
A pilot program from the Oregon Coast Visitors’ Association (OCVA), the express will offer two routes to the north coast departing from and returning to the transit center Friday through Sunday, aimed at giving day trippers and weekend visitors a vehicle-free way to access the north coast.
“I’m thrilled that there’s going to be a new and convenient transit option to get to the north coast without a car,” Bonamici said at the ceremony.
UO alumnus Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Beaverton, said she is heartened to see the university continuing to invest in education despite the hostile rhetoric coming from the White House.
“It’s important and critical that we continue to open the doors of opportunity to higher education, especially at this moment. Higher education is under attack,” Bonamici said at Thursday’s event. “What better investment can we make than in education?”
Rep. Bonamici, a Democrat, described news of the closure as “outrageous” in a video taken outside the PIVOT Job Corps center in Portland. She said she represents both PIVOT and the Tongue Point Job Corps and is concerned for their futures. “These programs are an incredible asset to our community because they’re so important for students who don’t fit into a traditional high school,” Bonamici said. “Job Corps in Astoria is a residential program — those students may not have homes to go back to.