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The Ranking Member of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee is frustrated with the USDA for a lack of transparency during the government shutdown.
Angie Craig of Minnesota tells Brownfield Democrats in the House and Senate requested a bipartisan meeting with the department earlier this month.
WASHINGTON, DC – This week, U.S. Representative Angie Craig called on House Speaker Mike Johnson to bring House Republicans back to Washington, DC and pass a bill to ensure military servicemembers are paid during the government shutdown. Speaker Johnson has kept the House out of session for the duration of the government shutdown, preventing the House from passing any bill to ensure essential workers, like members of the military, TSA agents and air traffic controllers, are paid.
The issue of paying the troops, who like all others on the federal payroll will miss their first paycheck, has put pressure on Democrats – some more than others.
Rep. Angie Craig, D-2nd District, who is running for retiring Sen. Tina Smith’s seat, was one of 10 House Democrats, many of them moderates, who wrote to House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday asking him to reconvene the U.S. House to vote on legislation that would pay the military, even if there is no end to the shutdown.
WASHINGTON, DC – In response to pressure from U.S. Representative Angie Craig, the United States Postal Service (USPS) recently notified Rep. Craig’s office that it will be launching an internal investigation into reports of delayed delivery of the New Prague Times.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig pressed the Trump Administration about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) recent proposal to turn the former Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, MN, which was shuttered in 2010, into an ICE detention center.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig announced that Shakopee Fire will receive $2,632,890 in federal funding through the Federal Emergency Management Administration’s (FEMA) Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant program to hire 12 new full-time firefighters. Rep. Craig was a strong advocate for this funding, writing a letter to FEMA in support of the City of Shakopee’s application in July of this year.
U.S. Rep. Angie Craig says she is demanding answers from United States Postal Service leadership on the status of the New Prague Post Office following reports from the New Prague Times that its newspapers were not being delivered to subscribers on time.
WASHINGTON—Some Democrats have found an answer to President Trump’s popular tax cuts for tipped workers, overtime pay and senior citizens: expand them.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig released the following statement on President Trump and Congressional Republicans’ failure to fund the government, leading to the first government shutdown in nearly seven years.
“Today, Republicans – who control the House of Representatives, Senate and White House – failed to do their job of keeping the government open.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig introduced a package of two bills to hold elected officials accountable for shutting down the government. Her Termination of Reckless Unchecked Mandates from this President (TRUMP) Act would prohibit the President from using any federal funds to issue executive orders during a government shutdown.