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Candidates › SC-03 race › 2025–2026
Eunice Lehmacher
D Democratic nominee for U.S. House, SC-03
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- On the general election ballotNov 3, 2026 · South Carolina US House 3
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- Top priorities
- Courage, Not Chaos
- Data Centers and Privacy
- Fighting for Education
- Increase Access to Doctors & Hospitals
- Issues and Ideas
- Money
- $98.7K raised, $76.7K spent, $22K cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 41% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 87% from South Carolina
- Backed by
- Indivisible Upstate SC · National Women’s Political Caucus · DC Statehood PAC and 6 more. As the campaign lists them
7 priorities from euniceforsc.com, in the order they are listed there. Every heading and the text under it is copied exactly, as one passage for each page it is from, and links to that place on the page; hover a source to see which passage it opens.
Incumbent Sheri Biggs doesn’t understand that her job is to look at each issue on its own merits. Instead of thoughtful analysis, she’s happy to parrot the administration’s talking points. Maybe she doesn’t trust her own judgment enough to think for herself. Rubberstamping orders from an autocratic president and out-of-touch party leadership is certainly the easy way. But no one said representing us in Congress should be easy.
What do we get when Congress abdicates its role as a co-equal branch of government? Chaos, at home and abroad. We must:
- Stop funding masked ICE agents who are threatening, arresting, and even killing your neighbors
- Stop unjust, unnecessary, and costly wars & aggression in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba…what’s next?
- Defend your 1st and 2nd Amendment rights in the face of government threats
- End the attack on sane medical policies that led to a measles outbreak here in the Upstate
If you’re looking for a choice and not an echo, choose the leader who listens and who will carefully study each issue. I think for myself and not a political party. I will build relationships with other legislators, and take courageous stands to fight for the many.
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The world knows from experience what happens when powerful individuals and groups are allowed unrestrained to increase their power and influence. Laws and regulations exist because of abuses that have harmed millions. Data centers and Flock cameras are new examples of technologies growing unchecked. However, Eunice doesn't think these technologies shouldn’t exist. Many have already benefited from their substantial influence on our lives. That said, Eunice believes their owners must be compelled to be transparent about their plans, must operate their facilities in ways that do not trample on their neighbors, and must pay their own way.
If emerging technologies are only curbed by optional guidelines written by the billionaire proprietors themselves, we cannot expect outcomes that will benefit most citizens. However, county, state, and national governments are already setting limits. New technologies need to be studied and carefully applied so that their benefits outweigh their risks. Eunice favors creating advisory panels of experts to create bills that set federal limits on AI and other new technologies, with continuous updates as development continues. In SC-03, already Greenwood, Newberry, and Anderson Counties have passed data center moratoria. Oconee County has passed a ban on Flock (and competitor) cameras, a good model for other governments. Eunice recommends...
- Data centers must be required to generate their own renewable energy unless a company can prove that fossil fuel models can be implemented more quickly and cheaply
- Rate payers should not see electricity rate hikes for the grid infrastructure needed for any new data center (i.e., data centers must pay for their own electrical grid improvements)
- New data center builds should be required to provide some community benefit - new local electricity infrastructure, putting power lines underground in a certain radius, generating clean energy for the neighboring community, etc.
- The federal government could mandate a minimum distance from neighborhoods, schools, and senior centers at which data centers must be constructed to prevent noise stress to nearby residents
- We could create a federal agency to collect data on the jobs that are most affected by AI and assess severance benefits over time by industry
- The government could own a percentage of AI and distribute proceeds to citizens and nonprofits for the common good
- We could enact a national AI pause to allow informed leaders time for frontier model training
Local governments could be encouraged to create Flock camera bans and/or limits like the new law passed in Oconee County
- Companies building data centers could be required to give estimates to communities about how long the data center will be used (because some experts estimate new data centers would only be utilized for 5 years before becoming obsolete)
- Federal regulations could penalize data centers that are built with water-only cooling systems so that other cooling methods see a financial advantage (and thereby protect local lakes and rivers)
For more information about Flock cameras in SC go to www.deflock.org.
For more information on the location of data centers in the US currently see www.compute-atlas.com.
Suggested laws to set limits on surveillance data being automatically collected on individuals via Flock cameras and other surveillance devices:
- Require a judicial warrant based on probable cause for any search location data for a specific person
- Cap retention of data at a set number of days (not months or years) unless the data is tied to an active criminal case
- Publish the audit logs for every data search (every search code, every agency using it, etc.) on a regular schedule the public can check
- Prohibit searches for civil immigration enforcement, reproductive health care and first amendment protected protests in statute (not in a settings menu)
- Ban sharing data with outside agencies and federal databases absent a warrant and require each city or state to know every entity that has pledged its data
- Attach real penalties (meaning criminal liability) for misuse of private data and automatic contract termination for a vendor's misuse of data
“We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured.” - Erik Brynjolfsson
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Most decisions about what happens inside a South Carolina classroom — curriculum, local funding, hiring — rightly belong to our state, our counties and our districts. But Congress controls something just as important: whether the federal government keeps its promises to students with disabilities, low-income schools, first-generation college students, and working families trying to afford a degree.
Here is what I will fight for in Congress:
- Create a national teacher pay incentive program to increase teacher salaries.
- Defend Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and services for students with
disabilities.
- Protect Title I funding for low-income schools.
- Make college and trade school affordable, with emphasis on persons seeking
certification in early childhood education.
- Fully Fund Head Start and child nutrition programs.
- Streamline processing of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), with a focus on direct qualification for low-income students.
- Increase number of therapists in schools including speech therapy, psychologists and
social workers.
- Restore the full function of the Department of Education.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela
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Healthcare is a basic human need and human right. No one should be forced to choose between affordable healthcare and other necessities like food or housing. No one should be forced into bankruptcy because of needed medical treatment and care.
But foolish, short-sided policies have placed healthcare out of reach for millions of us. We deserve better.
In Congress I will support policies and legislation that will:
- Reduce the cost of insurance, medications, and treatment, and increase access to local healthcare providers like OB/GYNs, specialists, and therapists.
- Restore funding to Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act.
- Support the MediKids Act proposed by Senator Andy Kim (NJ) with automatic enrollment for children ages 0-26.
- Increase enrollment in college and university programs to relieve shortages of critical healthcare providers such as nurses, physical therapists (PTs), occupational therapists (OTs), physician’s assistants (PAs), Nurse Practitioners (NPs), and doctors (including specialists).
- Increase funding for rural residency programs that would increase the number of residents trained in rural areas.
- Restore funding for medical research on cancer; vaccines; and chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, ALS, dementia, and autoimmune disorders.
- Increase funding (e.g. Community Long-term Care) to provide respite to caregivers of disabled children and adults, or for those with chronic conditions like dementia and heart disease.
- Resume reliable data collection on all communicable and chronic diseases, reporting the results accurately and publicly.
- Restore staff and budget cuts to the Veterans Administration (VA), particularly those eliminated with DOGE (which has led to physicians quitting the VA).
- Standardize the audit procedure for Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) providing service under Medicaid and Medicare Advantage programs. Stop MCOs from clawing back funds from providers on clerical errors or other minor technicalities (a common profit-maximizing tactic that discourages providers from accepting patients with Medicare and Medicaid insurance).
- Increase the number of providers that take Medicare and Medicaid by making some of the requirements standard and universal across all Medicare and Medicaid plans (including MCOs).
- Lower the enrollment age for Medicare to 64 next year. In subsequent years lower it further.
- Lower prescription drug prices.
- Improve access for small business owners to have health care for themselves and their employees.
“Health is a shared responsibility; communities thrive when everyone supports care.” - Professor Laura Mendes
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The American dream is a pretty simple concept. It means a paycheck that allows you to afford your medicine and still pay your grocery and utility bills. It means enough to afford a home, raise a family, pay for trade school or higher education, and plan for the future.
It’s also encouraging and supporting small businesses, from tech startups and Mom and Pop restaurants to my own health care practice. It’s trusting professionals like doctors and teachers to do their jobs without interference from Washington. It’s time to:
- Make housing, groceries, utilities, child care, college, and other necessities more affordable
- Rein in tariffs and unnecessary foreign conflicts, easing the burden they impose on families like yours
- Lower your health insurance costs and increase your options for doctors and hospitals
I’m in this to serve working families, small businesses, our senior citizens, young adults, and our schoolchildren. Special interests and political insiders don’t need or deserve my help.
I ask for your vote in November. In the meantime, I’ll be explaining my views and listening carefully to yours.
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Eunice loves the Upstate and cares about its future.
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Upstate South Carolina offers real quality of life, the opportunity to earn a good living, and an ideal environment for family life. That’s why I built my health care practice here, and why my husband and I settled and raised our family here. That’s why we remain here after our children have grown. That’s why so many are moving here.
I love the Upstate and care about its future. I know you do too.
But we cannot take these things for granted. We can and must act now to:
- Lower your utility costs by investing in cheaper, cleaner energy
- Invest in our parks, trails, roads, bridges, and infrastructure
- Resist the billionaires and corporations that threaten our precious land and water
We need common-sense stewardship, smart planning, setting sensible priorities, and leaving the Upstate better than we found it.
This isn’t about “politics”. It’s not about who you voted for in past elections.
It’s certainly not about reelecting someone who’s afraid to face her own constituents, and who believes her job is simply to follow orders and never think for herself.
We’re in this together. I’m listening to you.
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I value undocumented immigrants and refugees as hard-working neighbors who make strong economic and cultural contributions to our country. When it comes to solving our immigration problems, the only thing more urgent than immigration reform is repairing the damage done by Trump’s second term policies.
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“The world is not given by [our] fathers, but borrowed from [our] children.” - Wendell Berry
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Fossil fuels are going the way of the dinosaurs. The recent gasoline price shock is only the beginning and should be a warning. Clean, renewable energy is the solution.
In Congress, I will support policies and legislation that will:
- Reduce the price and the environmental cost of electricity for us and for the next seven generations.
- Restore and increase funding for renewable energy, including solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, etc.
- Speed up the approvals for solar and wind projects including permitting reform.
- Increase funding for Electric Vehicle (EV) chargers and electric battery research.
- End taxpayer handouts (aka “corporate welfare”) to Big Oil
- Create a moratorium on new fossil fuel infrastructure (e.g. gas-fired power plants) unless it is proven that using fossil fuels as an energy source is both quicker to build and cheaper for rate payers over the 30 years following the build (including the cost of the fuel).
- Require that new and existing data centers bear the full cost of their energy usage, and require that half of this energy be from renewable sources.
- End the practice of passing along the cost for new electricity infrastructure (e.g. transmission lines, power plants) to ratepayers. Billionaire corporations that build warehouses and data centers must pay the full cost for their energy usage and infrastructure.
- Require that data centers use only non-water based cooling systems, thereby protecting our lakes, rivers, and ocean.
- Restore and resume renewable energy power generation projects, including off-shore wind farms, cut by the current administration.
- Ban new drilling in our precious national parks, the Arctic, and coastal lands.
- Charge fossil fuel companies with the full cost of pollution, spills, and land restoration.
- Restore and enforce clean coal standards for all coal-fired power plants.
- Improve the electrical grid to move power to where it is needed.
- Set tough standards for pollution and resume EPA’s core mission of keeping our air and water clean.
- Make polluters pay for the pollution they make.
- Increase research in ways to sustain all life given the warming climate.
- Fund resiliency programs that help people move out of flood-prone areas. End the short-sighted policy of giving federal insurance funds to rebuild where it is likely to flood again.
- Buy more electric vehicles for federal government use. Incentivize state and county government to buy electric vehicles.
- Subsidize existing rail transport and increase funding to high-speed rail lines for commuters.
- Mandate climate reporting that is consistent and transparent for governments and businesses and require participation.
- Use both carrots and sticks to increase renewable energy projects including grants, tax breaks, fines, taxes, etc.
- Incentivize farmers who use regenerative farming practices.
- Penalize public service commissions that are serving fossil fuel companies ahead of ratepayers and the public.
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“Voting is our right, our power, and our responsibility.” - Laura Bush
Every American should have have easy access to voting in every election. I will oppose any legislation that limits your access to the ballot box and will propose the following reforms:
- Fair representation including use of ranked choice voting or instant runoff voting. South Carolinians in the military who are serving overseas already vote this way.
- Reduce gerrymandering by
- Using non-partisan councils of citizens to choose voting districts so that voters choose their leaders instead of politicians choosing their voters
- Prohibiting mid-decade redistricting
- Get big money out of politics allowing voters, not rich donors to decide elections.
- Overturn Citizens United which made it possible for the ultra-rich to give unlimited political donations starting in 2010
- Ban corporate PACs
- Create a system of public campaign financing
- Make dark money illegal in all 50 states (Currently dark money funds political campaigns in South Carolina. Click here to look up any politician's dark money contributions).
- Allow absentee voting for everyone without the need for an excuse (as we did in 2020).
- Add early voting days on at least one Saturday and one Sunday each election (as we had in 2020 - 2024).
- Protect mail-in voting and ensure that absentee ballots are delivered and counted.
- Enact automatic voter registration when you turn 18 (or if you’re eligible)
- End precinct closures without notice by requiring that voters be notified at least 72 hours in advance if their polling place is closed or changed.
- Guarantee accessibility at every polling place with adequate parking, working equipment such as rolling poll booths for curbside voting, and no structural barriers such as steep steps or extended walks.
- Use multi-member districts to choose Representatives.
- Support bills that advance voting rights such as the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
- Create a national holiday for national elections allowing everyone to vote.
Eunice is for the many, not the money!
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Across the Upstate, people are being priced out of the housing market. Whether buying a starter home or renting an apartment, housing costs have risen so quickly that many people with full-time jobs can no longer afford to live near where they work. Corporate investors often purchase homes and land before local families even have a chance to compete.
Since 2017, average earnings nationwide have increased about 43 percent, while home prices have risen 81 percent and rents 54 percent. South Carolina also has one of the nation's highest eviction rates, due in part to laws that allow landlords to remove tenants quickly. Evictions disproportionately affect women, particularly Black and Hispanic women.
Developers and corporate investors naturally seek the highest returns, leading to the construction of more expensive homes and luxury apartments while fewer modest homes and lower-cost rental units are built. In one of the nation's fastest-growing states, we need housing for people at every income level. Teachers, first responders, nursing assistants, janitors, service workers, and many others should be able to live in the communities they serve. Without action, rising housing costs will continue to push working families out of the housing market.
Eunice's plan to restore housing opportunity includes:
- Pass a National Tenants' Protection Act to limit excessive rent increases, guarantee the right to counsel in eviction proceedings, and prohibit no-cause evictions.
- Increase funding for the Federal Home Loan Banks to expand access to housing.
- Create a federal awards and grant program that recognizes communities—such as Greenville—that successfully expand housing opportunities through partnerships among local government, businesses, nonprofits, and faith organizations, and help replicate those models elsewhere.
- Create grants to convert abandoned hotels, schools, dormitories, office buildings, and warehouses into apartments.
- Provide tax incentives and grants that help churches and nonprofit organizations build housing on underused property.
- Fund smart-growth projects that build housing near jobs and public transportation while incorporating child care centers.
- Encourage multigenerational housing developments where students, seniors, and working families live together near colleges and in urban areas.
- Keep Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under public oversight rather than privatizing them.
- Increase funding to build housing for people with disabilities, chronic mental illness, and those experiencing homelessness.
- Support community land trusts, especially in rural areas, to help stabilize land costs.
- Limit the ability of large corporate landlords and private equity firms to purchase single-family homes by eliminating tax advantages unavailable to individual homebuyers.
- Increase funding for USDA Rural Housing Service loan programs.
- Encourage employers and local governments to offer first-time homebuyer assistance, including closing-cost assistance, as an employee benefit.
- Provide down-payment or closing-cost assistance for first-time homebuyers who are teachers, first responders, and health care workers living near their workplaces.
- Increase grant funding for community development lenders such as CommunityWorks South Carolina, which provides financing in underserved communities.
“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home." - Confucius
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Childcare is not a fringe issue. The brain builds 80% of its foundational architecture by age three. Childcare is infrastructure — as essential to a functioning economy as roads and broadband. Childcare costs have skyrocketed, averaging $10,000–$15,000+ per year per child in many states, exceeding college tuition in some areas. Childcare workers earn a median hourly wage of $15.42, less than parking lot attendants whose median wage is $15.72 per hour. In 2018, at least 42% of South Carolinians lived in a childcare desert (areas with more than three young children per licensed slot), but that figure is likely higher, since SC is the fastest growing state in the country.
Here is what I will fight for in Congress:
- Free technical college tuition for persons seeking certification in early childhood education.
- Federally funded Universal Pre-K.
- Expansion of Head Start / Early Head Start.
- Federal wage floor for childcare workers.
- National paid family and medical leave.
- Incentivize companies to add childcare centers when they build or open factories or office buildings
- Require federal office buildings over a certain size to have childcare centers for their staff and the community anytime federal buildings are built and/or renovated. This would be modeled after the child development centers operated on military bases.
“When we invest in childcare, we invest in children, in parents, in workers, and in the economy all at once. There is no smarter investment we can make.” - Eunice
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“The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.” - George Washington
America is at war, right now. We attacked Iran on February 28 with a massive bombing campaign. We destroyed military targets, killed people, and even killed their leaders. But we did not win. The Iranians responded. They attacked their neighbors destroying and/or damaging American military bases throughout the region and attacking our ships. We did not win. Then the Iranians did the obvious next move, something military advisors had predicted if the US attacked Iran: they blocked the Strait of Hormuz. At that point, we lost the war, but the war is not over. The constant claims and counter-claims of negotiations, many untrue, have made a quick end to the war unlikely. The war goes on. It is just one example of a pattern of American belligerence.
- Congress has the power to declare war. They were not consulted, but the Republican majority was too timid to try stopping the attacks. Eunice will work in Congress to re-assert the constitutional power of Congress.
- The Iranians do not trust Trump. They will not negotiate seriously until they see him brought under control. Congress needs to act and the world needs to see it.
- This war is part of a larger pattern:
- Trump started his second term by announcing tariffs on most of the other countries in the world. Congress has the power to regulate tariffs. Congress needs to take that power back.
- He sent our navy to destroy boats full of people in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. On the face of it, this was both murder and a war crime. His justifications were flimsy and unsubstantiated, and the American public soon forgot about them. Congress needs to investigate and stop this aggression.
- He sent our armed forces into Venezuela to decapitate the government there. He arrested the president and left the rest of the Venezuelan government untouched, except for some shady deals on oil revenues. Congress needs to find out where the money is going.
- He has announced that he wants to annex Greenland, and has made veiled threats to do it by force. Right now, a company created by Trump insiders has moved drilling equipment to Greenland, preparing to start mineral exploration without legal permission.
- Emergencies? The Trump Administration has declared emergencies for the sudden wave of tariffs, for the attacks on civilian boats, the attack on Venezuela, and the attack on Iran. The real emergency is in Washington. We need new people in Congress. Vote for Eunice Lehmacher on Nov. 3.
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Courage over chaos, Hope over hate!
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Libraries are a lifeline for our communities, connecting citizens to programs, resources, and services vital to their needs. Eunice worked as a library associate for many years and understands pressures put on libraries by politicians. Eunice's position is that librarians and not politicians should be making selections for books in the libraries. And parents, not politicians should make decisions about what books their parents should read when they visit the library. Funding to support schools and libraries is critical to improving overall student success and encouraging life-long learning. Parents should have access to many materials for their children and can decide which books their children should take home.
Eunice will advocate for programs that foster cooperation between libraries and education professionals including library programs that:
- Improve community health and well-being
- Increase literacy and educational outcomes
- Build social capital and community engagement
- Support economic and workforce development
- Encourage lifelong learning in SC by providing unrestricted library access
- Provide strong programs that support and encourage student achievement
- Increase funding
- Promote federal and state policies towards library equity (poorer areas need support)
- Provide basic necessities such as Wi-Fi access, computers, printers, and community meeting rooms
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- Most of the undocumented immigrants being detained and deported by ICE have no criminal record. Their only legal violation is their undocumented status (a civil violation). Stop mass deportation of law-abiding undocumented immigrants and refugees. Resume our government’s decades long practice of only deporting long-term undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes.
- President Trump is not allowing undocumented immigrants to request asylum at our borders and have their claims tested in court, as our asylum law requires. He is also detaining and deporting immigrants who are living in the US legally while awaiting their final asylum merits hearing. Start (actually resume) following the asylum law. Allow immigrants to request asylum and don’t deport them before the government has made a decision on their request.
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- Immigration is a complex problem. Solving it will require a balance of enforcement coupled with updating our outdated immigration laws, which is Congress’s job.
- Increase our restrictive caps on legal immigration. These have not been raised since 1990. In combination with America’s declining birth rates, low legal immigration caps create chronic labor shortages, which incentivize undocumented immigration. Raising these caps will reduce undocumented immigration because it will allow immigrants to move here legally. Because undocumented immigrants frequently work in industries where there are shortages of American workers, they do not generally take jobs from Americans.
- Make asylum fairer and faster. Allocate more resources (e.g., immigration judges) so that asylum decisions are made more quickly. Make the asylum process fairer by ensuring that immigration judges are independent from political influence and that asylum seekers have more access to legal counsel.
- More border enforcement. Increase enforcement to prevent undocumented immigrants from crossing the border between official entry points. Only allow newly arrived undocumented immigrants to remain in the US if they enter at an official entry point and pass a credible fear interview, which allows them to enter the asylum process.
- Provide legal status to long-term undocumented immigrants. Allow undocumented immigrants who have lived in the US for at least several years and have no criminal record a path to long-term legal status, perhaps including citizenship.
These are mainstream ideas supported by most Americans.
For 40 or more years (and as late as 2025), bipartisan groups in Congress have repeatedly attempted to increase legal immigration and legalize long-term undocumented immigrants, and Presidents from both parties have followed a policy of deporting mainly undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes. Public opinion for 20 years has supported legalization and opposed mass deportation.
For people who are deported or forced to return to México, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica the guide "Crossing South (Regresando al sur)" was developed by the American Friends Service Committee and partner organizations. You can download the guides here: English and Spanish.
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"Then I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” - Donald Trump, 2019
The current administration in Washington has corruptly exceeded its legal and constitutional power in many ways, including:
- Compromising the independence of the Justice Department—independence that is essential if the rule of law is to apply to all—by using the Department to attack Trump’s political opponents and reward his friends, for example, by stopping ongoing investigations of corporate corruption.
- Dismantling or drastically cutting Federal agencies, like USAID and the Department of Education, that Congress created decades ago and has funded consistently since then.
- Slashing Congressionally funded scientific and medical research, which provides lifesaving medical treatments and boosts our economy. Cutting clean energy grants only in Blue states; plus admitting in court that the sole reason for the cuts was the political leaning of the state.
- Attacking press freedom by using the FCC to put financial and other pressure on news organizations (including CBS, NBC, and ABC) to provide more favorable coverage of the President.
- Trump’s cabinet nominees are unqualified people and more loyal to Trump than the people their agency serves. Think Hegseth, Kennedy, Blanche. Being a media star does not make you qualified to lead.
The first order of business is for Congress to reassert that it has power of the purse and the power to create and disband Federal agencies, not the President.
Congress also needs to provide much better oversight regarding cabinet nominees and the politicization of federal agencies.
The Republican majority in Congress has shown over and over and over that they have abdicated their constitutional responsibility to provide a check on the President’s power.
Our current Republican representative in the House has been a loyal supporter of Trump’s corruption.
Eunice will fight hard in Congress to stop the growing corruption of the Trump administration and bring back the rule of law and our Constitutional checks and balances.
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