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By Sam Janesch February 11, 2025 Senator Angela Alsobrooks speaks at a rally against DOGE and possible Interference with Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The rally was held outside of the Social Security Administration in Woodlawn. A 35-year veteran of the Social Security Administration who works out of its headquarters in Woodlawn, Shelley Washington describes […]
More of Trump’s cabinet choices are set to face key procedural votes this week. Maryland Senator Angela Alsobrooks joins The Weekend to preview the confirmation votes and hearings.
By Candy Woodall February 9, 2025 Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) questions Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pension, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. Kennedy testified before the Senate […]
By Kate Amara February 7, 2025 ‘This president came into office, and he immediately attacked civil servants, and over 150,000 civil servants are Marylanders’ WASHINGTON —Maryland’s newly elected U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks called recent White House executive orders illegal, intentionally destabilizing and cruel. “This president came into office, and he immediately attacked civil servants, and […]
By Kate Amara February 7, 2025 ‘This president came into office, and he immediately attacked civil servants, and over 150,000 civil servants are Marylanders’ WASHINGTON —Maryland’s newly elected U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks called recent White House executive orders illegal, intentionally destabilizing and cruel. “This president came into office, and he immediately attacked civil servants, and […]
By TheGrio Staff Jan 31, 2025 The Maryland senator confronted Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on his false medical claims during his confirmation hearing to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Maryland Senator Angela Alsobrooks‘ questioning of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President Donald Trump‘s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, has […]
By Sam Janesch January 30, 2025 WASHINGTON — In a series of aggressive, rapid-fire questions to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his plans to replace career scientists at the Maryland-based National Institutes for Health and reform the country’s biggest health agency at large, U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks leaned forward, took off her glasses and smiled […]
January 30, 2025 On Thursday, during confirmation hearings for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) confronted RFK Jr. on his position that “We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that’s given to Whites, because their immune system […]
by Cheyanne M. Daniels January 30, 2025 Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) on Thursday grilled Department of Health and Human Services secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his history of claiming Black Americans have a better immune system than white people. Alsobrooks, one of only two Black women serving in the Senate, questioned Kennedy on what he […]
By Larry Miller January 29, 2025 The U.S. senator has to work with leaders across the political spectrum to save federal workers. WASHINGTON — Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks is voicing strong opposition to the Trump administration’s latest initiative aimed at shrinking the federal government, calling it a “witch hunt” against career civil servants. The controversy […]