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When Attorney General Jeff Sessions called on46 U.S. attorneys appointed by former President Barack Obama to submit their resignations Friday, Democrats and the media howled against the sudden and unexpected move.

What they failed to mention is after each transfer of power, everypresident exercises the right to appoint new candidates to fill the 93 U.S. attorney districts nationwide.Although some U.S. attorneys carry over their appointments from one administration to another, it is a normal processfor new presidents to select their own candidates.

Until the new U.S. attorneys are confirmed, the dedicated career prosecutors in our U.S. attorneys offices will continue the great work of the department in investigating, prosecuting and deterring the most violent offenders.

As was the case in prior transitions, many of the United States attorneys nominated by the previous administration already have left the Department of Justice, Justice Department spokesperson Sarah Isgur Flores said in a statement Friday. The attorney general has now asked the remaining 46 presidentially appointed US attorneys to tender their resignations in order to ensure a uniform transition.

Flores added, Until the new U.S. attorneys are confirmed, the dedicated career prosecutors in our U.S. attorneys offices will continue the great work of the department in investigating, prosecuting and deterring the most violent offenders.

The Justice Department noted that President Donald Trump would not accept the resignations of two prosecutors, Dana Boente of Virginia and Rod Rosenstein of Maryland. Boente had served as the acting attorney general prior to Sessions confirmation after Trump dismissed Sally Yates from the position in late January and currently serves as the acting deputy attorney general. Rosenstein, who served as a U.S. attorney under both Bush and Obama, is Trumps pick to serve as deputy attorney general and is still undergoing the confirmation process.

Democratic administrations have followed the same process in handling the turnover of U.S. attorneys.

In 1993, former Attorney General Janet Reno asked everyholdover U.S. attorney appointed by President George H.W. Bush to submit their resignations shortly after former President Bill Clinton took office.

But Democrats many of whom are hyper-sensitive regarding almost every move that Sessions makes are crying foul over the attorney generals decision.

In January, I met with Vice President Pence and White House Counsel Donald McGahn and asked specifically whether all U.S. attorneys would be fired at once, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a statement. Mr. McGahn told me that the transition would be done in an orderly fashion to preserve continuity. Clearly this is not the case. Im very concerned about the effect of this sudden and unexpected decision on federal law enforcement.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) expressed his particular frustration with Sessions decision to include U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of New York in his resignation request. Bharara, one of the most high-profile current U.S. attorneys, is well-known for his aggressive prosecutions of insider trading and public corruption, as The Wall Street Journal noted. Bharara had met with Trump in November to discuss potentially retaining his position.

The President initiated a call to me in November and assured me he wanted Mr. Bharara to continue to serve as U.S. attorney for the Southern District, Schumer said in a statement.

While its true that presidents from both parties made their own choices for U.S. attorney positions across the country, they have always done so in an orderly fashion that doesnt put ongoing investigations at risk, Schumer added. They ask for letters of resignation but the attorneys are allowed to stay on the job until their successor is confirmed.

Senate Democrats vehemently foughtSessions confirmation as attorney general and exhaustively dragged out the process. Since Sessions assumed office they have also looked for every opportunity to undermine their former Senate colleague.

The turnover of U.S. Attorneys will be key to the shift in focusSessions has promised from the Department of Justice. The attorney general has vowed to focus onescalating murder and violent crime cases in cities, while the Obama administration often focused on litigation related to preserve causes and aggressively pursued alleged civil rights abuses at police departments.

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SPOKANE, Wash. - Education, health care and the environment all hot topics during several Democrat and Republican town hall style meetings in Spokane on Saturday.

More than 200 hundred concerned neighbors and constituents packed into the Washington Cracker Factory building in downtown Spokane Saturday morning, including music teacher, Linda Gower.

"I think politics is so important today because it affects our lives at a local level," said Gower.

Gower said she wants to see education fully funded for her students. In 2012, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled the state has a constitutional obligation to fully fund public K-12 education. This ruling is known as the McCleary decision. Under this ruling, lawmakers must have a plan in place to fully fund education by September 1, 2018.

"The lack of funding- we see it everyday," said Linda Gower. "Nurses, class size," she added.

The House and Senate have both passed plans to fully fund education. But, how education is paid for in our state remains a big debate. Now lawmakers must work together to reach a solution everyone can agree on. Governor Inslee is also proposing $3.9 billion dollars in new funding for K-12 schools.

"The real crux of this issue is whether or not we do this with new revenue, which means new taxes," said Senator Andy Billig (D).

"No body wants addition taxes but sometimes you have to say that is the most responsible way to move forward because without new revenue- it means funding education at the expense of something else," said Billig.

Rep. Jeff Holy (R) and Rep. Mike Volz (R) also hosted a town hall meeting Saturday at the Museum of Arts and Culture.

Rep. Holy said lawmakers need to fund education first.

For every day the state is without a fully funded education system, the Washington State Supreme Court imposes a $100,000 fine- totally more than $57 million so far.

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President John F. Kennedy

The Democratic Party once produced presidents such as Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy. Major party leaders were fierce opponents of mass immigration because they recognized the negative impact it had on wages.

And Americas center-left party presented itself as a friend to American workers, fighting for their interests against corporate bosses.

But the Democratic Party of the past is not the Democratic Party of today. Indeed, one author and researcher suggests the current Democratic Party is more concerned with defending international socialism than American workers.

Trevor Loudon, who has researched communism and leftist movements for decades, exposes the change within the Democrats in his documentary The Enemies Within. He argues the current Democrat leadership team of chairman Tom Perez and vice-chairman Keith Ellison represents a fundamental departure for the party from its patriotic past.

It is a socialist party, he told WND. Todays Democratic Party has completely abandoned the middle ground. It is now a full-on progressive party with an agenda and platform almost indistinguishable from that of the Communist Party, or Democratic Socialists of America which incidentally openly backed Ellison in his race against Perez.

The Democrats of today would be marching in the streets against traditional Democrats such as Harry Truman or JFK.

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As Loudon showed in his research, Congressman Keith Ellison, now second-in-command at the Democratic National Committee, has a long history of involvement with both the Communist Party and radical Islamic groups.

Ellison is the poster boy for the red-green axis the alliance between the communist and Islamist movements, he said. In his student activist days he worked with Maoists, and was active in the Nation of Islam. As a congressman he was close to the Communist Party USA even holding fundraisers in the home of Minnesota party chairman Erwin Marquit. He has even written for the Communist Party website.

All the while he was actively involved with several Muslim Brotherhood front groups such as CAIR and the Muslim American Society, which even paid for his pilgrimage to Mecca in 2008.

Yet chairman Tom Perez also has a radical past.

Tom Perez was a longtime leader of CASA de Maryland, a militant left immigrants rights group, Loudon told WND. A few years ago President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela was sending one million dollars a year of his oil revenue to CASA, which was bent on keeping Americas borders wide open.

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Loudon points out the Democratic Party has not always been characterized by unquestioning support for open borders. Indeed, the American lefts sudden backing of mass immigration is fairly recent.

Until the mid-1990s, both the AFL-CIO and the Democrats were staunchly opposed to lax border security, explains Loudon. Illegal immigration disproportionately hurt both the black community and their white working class base.

However, in 1994, the Democratic Socialists of America, under John Sweeney, took over the AFL-CIO from Lane Kirkland and his supporters. The clause prohibiting communists from holding AFL-CIO office was quietly dropped. Now the AFL-CIO is completely controlled by the hard left. Orchestrated by another DSAer, Eliseo Medina, the AFL-CIO switched its policy in 2000 to open support for amnesty for illegal immigrants. The Democrats quickly followed suit.

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Loudon argues the modern Democratic Party has abandoned even the pretense of trying to help American workers. Instead, they seek to gain power by essentially replacing the current American people with a new one.

The prize was 12 to 30 million illegals who would vote 70 to 80 percent Democrat, Loudon said. This would effectively bring about a one-party state, controlled by the Dems and the communist controlled unions. The AFL-CIO and Democratic Party today represent international socialism. Damn the American worker.

As a result, the current Democratic Party is really just an anti-white coalition. Tom Perez has a long history of anti-white views, including a declaration that white people should not be entitled to protection under the Voting Rights Act.

The Democratic plan is simply to replace American citizens, says Loudon. The left wants to expand the Democratic Party voting base to create a socialist one-party state. The simplest way to do this is to flood the country with immigrants from Third World countries, who have little interest in the Constitution and are reliable Democratic voters.

However, Loudon argues President Donald Trump can counter the Democrats identity politics driven strategy with policies that will help American workers of all races.

If Donald Trump is smart, he could confound that plan by closing the borders, Loudon said. He should be dramatically reducing all immigration and promoting America First, low tax, high growth policies which will win over significant numbers of working class, black, Asian and Latino voters.

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Several Democratic senators denounced potential cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development in a sharply worded letter Friday to Secretary Ben Carson, calling the budget reductions being considered by the Trump administration unconscionable and warning that they could pose health risks.

The White House isconsidering cutting more than $6 billion from HUDs 2018 budget, according to preliminary budget documents obtained by The Washington Post this week. The proposal would eliminate billions of dollars from public-housing maintenance funds used to fix vital equipment such as toilets, water pumps and heating equipment and eliminate community development grants entirely. Such grants are used to fund a range of services, such as building affordable housing, meal assistance and first-time homeownership programs.

Friday's pointedletter to Carson pins responsibility squarely on the secretary, who indicated during his confirmation hearing two months ago that he would not seek drastic cuts to existing HUD programs. Though Carson was probably not involved in the initial budget deliberations, because of a delay in his confirmation as secretary, he will have to oversee any budget cuts the administration makes at HUD.

If this reported budget stands, you will most certainly be presiding over an unprecedented attack on the health of some our most vulnerable Americans, reads the letter. It cannot stand and, if you are to remain true to the testimony you gave under oath, it must not.

The letter, delivered to the department Friday evening, marks the first flash of resistance among congressional Democrats to significant cuts at HUD. Itwas signed by several senators on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, including Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.).

Brown, the ranking Democrat on the committee, voted in favor of Carsons confirmation during the full Senate vote this month, to the disappointmentof activists who said Carson was unqualified for the job. Brown defended his decision, citingassurances byCarson that he would uphold the core mission of the department.

Those assurances were repeatedly turned against Carson in the statement Friday.

You testified to your understanding of the real impacts that substandard housing have on the health and opportunities of children and their families, in particular how it is far more costly to ignore lead hazards than to spend the money to abate them, the senators wrote. A cut of $1.3 billion nearly 70 percent in the public housing repair budget will mean more children, families, elderly, and individuals with disabilities will be exposed to mold, lead, and other health hazards.

The budget documents obtained by The Post a marked-up budget being passed between HUD andthe Office of Management and Budget show repeated requests by HUD that some maintenance funds and development grants be included in a separate infrastructure package. The administration has discussed putting a massive infrastructure bill before Congress, but the White House has not publicly discussed including housing projects in such a bill.

In the letter, committee members expressed skepticism over that solution.

The suggestion that some HUD funds will be addressed as part of an infrastructure package provides no assurance whatsoever, the letter said. The Administration has made clear that infrastructure is not an immediate priority, and that it hopes to finance its plans through tolls and other offsets.

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