Ayanna Pressley Leads Push For Reparations Commission Amid DOGE’s Cuts to Wasteful Spending
The Dept. of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been on a tear since its formal creation via an Executive Order from President Donald Trump last month, auditing federal departments and finding hundreds of millions of dollars in wasteful spending and woke priorities gone wildly amok.
As a result, there have been pink slips galore, office shutdowns, and a spending freeze, all of which are being fought tooth and nail in the courts by Democrats desperate to keep their various slush funds, gravy trains, and large-scale grifts going.
Democrats are, of course, utilizing other ways to push back against Trump and DOGE leader Elon Musk as well, which have included using incendiary language to incite their unhinged supporters and attempting to storm departments like the ED to prevent DOGE from doing its job.
Amid all this and the Trump administration’s war on DEI, The Resistance is also dragging the reparations issue back into the debate. Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) is leading the latest push by the party to form a reparations commission, and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is heading up the effort on the Senate side.
Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including Pressley and fellow Squad member Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA), held a press conference Wednesday to announce the reintroduction of H.R. 40, a bill that has been introduced in every Congress since 1989 but which has found little to no support among Republican members and which even some Democrats have balked at:
“What we’re seeing from the Trump Administration and their allies in Congress and the courts is a coordinated, years-long effort to dismantle any policy that uplifts Black folks and addresses America’s shameful history of systemic racism. It is anti-Blackness on steroids and we’re not backing down in our pursuit of healing and reparatory justice,” said Congresswoman Pressley.“H.R. 40 is a powerful reminder of the work that remains and offers us a pathway toward truth, reconciliation, and accountability for the deep, structural injustices that continue to ravage Black communities to this day. I am grateful to Senator Booker for his ongoing partnership and I am deeply honored to follow in the footsteps of my mentor and friend, the late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, in introducing this deeply necessary and overdue legislation.”
Here’s some of what Pressley alleged during the press conference:
Lee also accused the Trump administration of “white supremacy” and “racial terror”:
Even if this bill did manage to squeak through the House of Representatives (which it won’t), it would be DOA in the Senate, which every co-sponsor knows. But, in my opinion, the point is not to pass it. The point is to keep the pot stirred and the race card front and center as the battle over the wisdom (or lack thereof) of DEI and the necessity of the funding cuts to it in programs both at home and abroad get hashed out in the court of public opinion.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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