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He stipulated that his office will “only work with House and Senate Democratic appropriators ‘if they conduct themselves with decorum.'”

The top Democratic appropriators in Congress - Washington Senator Patty Murray and Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro - sent a letter to the White House Monday evening expressing their "extreme alarm" with the memo.

It’s not unheard of for FDA to want to do something and get a message from an important appropriator that, “If you do this, we’re going to cut your budget somewhere else.”

Enabled by that pipeline, the slaughter has continued in Gaza while the appropriators on Capitol Hill work in a kind of bubble.

On the House floor on Thursday, Connecticut Representative Rosa DeLauro - the top Democratic appropriator in the House - called the billionaire "President Musk", to laughter from fellow Democrats.