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ALSOBROOKS LEADS COLLEAGUES IN RELEASING REPORT HIGHLIGHTING HARM TO SENIORS AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES DURING TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS
April 30, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Tim Kaine (D-Va), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a report highlighting President Trump’s first 100 days in office and his disastrous policies hurting older Americans and people with disabilities. The report details Republican attacks on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security; the mass layoff of federal employees at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and Social Security Administration (SSA); and proposals to further cut funding for programs that Americans rely on, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance
Alsobrooks: 100 Days of Trump – We are Sick of It
April 29, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) released the following statement marking 100 days of Trump’s second term: “Americans have sustained 100 days of Trump’s second term – and frankly – we’re sick of it. Of his callous witch hunt targeting civil servants, including the over 150,000 civil servants living in Maryland. Of his raising prices on working and middle class families with reckless and chaotic tariffs. Of his slashing Medicaid, SNAP, and Social Security. Of his appointing dangerous cabinet members like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who is determined to turn back decades of progress in medicine and scientific research, who
Senator Alsobrooks Leads Maryland Democratic Delegation in Pushing Sec. Kennedy for Answers on Disastrous Mass Layoffs
April 16, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks led the Maryland Democratic Delegation – U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen and Representatives Steny Hoyer, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin, Glenn Ivey, Sarah Elfreth, April McClain Delaney, and Johnny Olszewski (all D-Md.) in expressing outrage and demanding answers regarding the mass terminations of civil servants at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In a letter to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Senator Alsobrooks and her colleagues questioned the extent of the devastation and consequential impacts these mass layoffs will have on the state and country. “This reckless reduction in