Get off of the fence. Sitting there with Susan is NOT helping. The war has gone on for 3 years, not 2 and Trump is NOT helping. He is trying to extort the only wealth Ukraine has to rebuild with and negotiating with Putin on Putin’s terms. Get over calling this a negotiation- he is switching sides in the middle of a war and selling out our allies. This is not a gray area- and as a congressman you have the POWER OF THE PURSE. There are Republicans who also feel strongly on this issue and this is the hill to die on! Man up!
Examine the agreement that Zelensky & Trump were supposed to sign. It is not extorting wealth from Ukraine. It was mutually beneficial to both sides…not a one sided deal. It would provide funds to Ukraine to help rebuild and provide some funds back to the US as replacement for the 200,000,000+ that the US sent to Ukraine over the past 3 yrs. Additionally, the fact that the US would be mining in what would effectively be a DMZ, Russia would be extremely unlikely to start another invasion. Zelensky said today that he will be signing the agreement but I’m betting that he won’t be asked back to the WH for the signing.
Why do you think that the US saying they would take at least 1/2 of Ukraine's rare earth minerals and give NOTHING in return would be "beneficial to both sides"? And who has said that the US would "pay" Ukraine for those minerals? I haven't heard that anywhere.
That’s not the arrangement. Ukraine was/is getting significant funds. Check it out. There wouldn’t be any reason for Ukraine to sign a deal with no advantage for them.
It is amazing how many parrot the same Russia Russia Russia story line. Trump is not about Russian. He is a businessman. And is used to working with contracts. And at least President Trump is better respected then the previous administrations.
Not respected by the WEF, EU (European Nations that belong to Nato).
Bullshit weakass arguments…no integrity, no loyalty!!! Did you not know we agreed to protect Ukraine when we talked them into getting rid of their nukes?? Trump. A failed businessman 6 times over that would screw over his own mother for a dime!
Eric Trump said that they didn't need U.S. banks because they got plenty of money from Russia. Russian banks are in trouble, thus Trump's money is in trouble. Of course he's cow towing to Putin. Always follow the money with Trump.
Oh, and he is very much a failed businessman. 6 or 7 bankruptcies. Cheating contractors. He still oes cities millions for rallies that has never been paid.
Not sure I understand where you got the $200 billion figure from, I’m lead to believe the USA gave $115 billion in aid since 2014 the year Putin’s Russia invaded Crimea.
Oh, I dunno, with many Republicans in Congress now pursuing a $1 trillion budget for the Department of Defense, a piddling $115 billion (or even $200 billion) to find out Russia is a paper tiger and unparalleled access to Ukrainian battlespace development of cutting edge drone warfare I’d say we get more than our moneys worth.
Biden gave 115 early in the war and additional funds to bring the combine in economic aid & military hardware to 200. Zelensky has said he can’t account for significant amount of that.
How does the Executive Branch get to choose not to enforce the rule, if that rule was promulgated under the authority of the law? I'm struggling to understand how the Executive Branch, charged with implementing the laws passed by Congress, is permitted to continue this dereliction of duty (at a minimum) without a check by Congress?
On the matter of Ukraine, if they desire to continue the fight, our obligations under Budapest say that we continue to arm them. When did we get to be so paternalistic as to decide that they should no longer lay down their lives for their country because it's 'too much loss of life'- like we're some kind of parent wading into a fistfight between two children over lunch money 'because it's gone on too long'. Except in this case, after ending the fight, the teacher is going take the one kid's lunch money, take half, and give the rest to the bully. All this while we continue to send bombs to Israel, which really exposes the hypocrisy of saying we're doing it to save lives. This administration does not GAF about saving anyone's lives (except for the fetuses, when they can get people to the polls.)
There are Laws that Congress Passes that actually infringe upon the Executive Branch of Gov. The Article II provision of the President outlines them. There are currently cased headed or at the Supreme Court that hopefully with clarify things. But for years Congress been working to strip the Executive Branch of its Powers. It is interesting following the case of the Special Council that just made it to the Supreme Court. And the case related to USAID also made it there. But in this last case a district court judge ordered the President to resume ALL aid moneys by midnight on a date. That case Chief Justice Roberts had to wake up in the night (Maybe an exaggeration) but the stay to that case was put in place like 10pm. The district judge (an expatiate from Canada maybe did not know our Constitution too good before he was installed under Biden) But he had overstepped his authority in ordering the release of monies with no exceptions. Well from following the case the Sec of States office has been review and completed the contracts under the USAID and either resumed them or terminated them. It was a pause to make sure the money was going to good causes. Money going to terrorist groups we should not be supporting as an example.
With all due respect Mr Golden, Zelensky can not hold elections while his country is at war. Trump and Putin are spiraling the US into a dictatorship and I wish you and your congress would STOP THEM! WE THE PEOPLE are trying but can't do it all on our own. Please stand up and fight for our democratic republic and the UK, the EU, etc. Thank you!
Repeating Russian demands that Zelensky should violate Ukraine's constitution to hold a wartime election is not the nuanced moderate stance you are presenting it as. The US promised Ukraine security when they agreed to nuclear disarmament, we are now reneging on those promises yet again. Russia started this war by violating a ceasefire. Pretend peace deals that attempt to appease Russia by sacrificing the lives of Ukrainian civilians will only lead to a stronger Russia taking more lives, not any lasting peace.
I AGREE BUT THEN AGAIN, putin's POODLES IN THE wHITE hOUSE HAVE ALSO RENEGED ON NATO. APPEASEMENT TO AN AGGRESSOR NEVER WORKS...THEY JUST BECOME MORE BRAZEN AND THEY'LL ALWAYS WANT MORE. KATE
Are you high? We promised Ukraine in a treaty that if they got rid of their nuclear weapons we would always come to their aid AGAINST Russia. You sitting there and watching this lunatic gut the democracy is more and more frightening every day. Continue to fight for today what you did in the past, - dignity, fairness, and democracy.
Once again, thank you Jared for all you are doing for us.it pains me to see that there are many of us who see the real picture of what is happening in Washington. With a wave of a pen, and help from republicans and the tainted supreme court, Trump just dissolves all watch dog agencies designed to protect us from fraud, deceit, and keep people accountable.
The side show with Trump and Vance was indeed made for "good tv" . It was disheartening to see such a spectacle from a supposed leader. Vance was despicable!
Zelensky deserves an apology. Our country will never be the same.
“ But if the Trump administration is going to play peacemaker, it should do so with full understanding that Russia is a threat to our country, not a friend. We should steer the ship toward a peace in our interest — not Putin’s.”
Indeed, it behooves us all to ask and get answered President Trumps belief of who is a threat to our nation and Ukraine’s wellbeing before we endorse (believe?) him as peacemaker……
Let’s put Trump, Musk, Vance and other bullies on a spaceship to go colonize Mars and never to return. They are ruining our lives and our democracy. I am totally disgusted with our government.
What can you , collectively, do about an unelected citizen tearing down government with a chain saw? He has no constitutional authority to do what he is doing.
You’re quite wrong - as a practicing attorney in Maine the beneficial owner filing requirement was a clear time and expense burden to my business clients - 95% of which are small businesses.
It was also an unconstitutional overreach by the federal government - that’s why it’s gone - I know thats an inconvenient fact.
Has the statute been successfully challenged in court? If it hasn't been invalidated, it should be obeyed. Where its enforcement is arguably unreasonable, seek exemption or amendment. Trump wants to conceal his flagrant self-dealing. We shouldn't let him.
It really is a dreadful law. It doesn’t target shell companies - it applies to all very small businesses, including LLCs set up to avoid liability on side income.
It applies only to very small businesses, rather than targeting the tiny subset of those very small businesses that do suspicious things. And if those tiny businesses don’t update their information on time, they get fined $500 per day, plus the potential of jail time. It applies to my minuscule farmers market business, which has never hit 1,000 gross revenue per year and has zero employees.
You cannot get a lawyer to do this form for $85, and these are tiny businesses that do not have legal departments.
I am all for stopping money laundering, but how about putting in a revenue threshold? No one is going to be laundering money through a LLC making $500 per year selling extras from their hobby farm. People selling heirloom veggies are not really the money launderer demographic.
They were burdening 32 million ordinary people to get to what, 100 money launderers? When you could target small LLCs that had high income, and either require them to report, or get a warrant for the bank.
Jared, Representatives and Senators alike need to step up in defense of Ukraine. They didn't ask to be invaded 3 years ago, nor when Russia took over Crimea when Obama was president. We don't have a treaty with Ukraine, but the US, along with several of our allies (and even Russia) signed a pact (actually 3 documents) that they would protect Ukraine from invasion in exchange for Ukraine giving up all its nuclear weapons. Putin broke that pact when he invaded Crimea and the US and other countries that signed that pact should have acted back then. Seeing that the US didn't really do anything about Crimea, he was emboldened to invade more of Ukraine. While Zelenskyy wasn't at his best last week, I think he was sandbagged. Any agreements between nations had been done in private and only when finalized were they publicized. Trump came off as a bully (as did his whip dog Vance). The Ukranian ambassador was seriously upset, but I believe more about how Trump and Vance behaved "for the cameras". Trump called Zelenskyy a dictator. His countrymen love him. While at war, their constitution doesn't call for elections and more recently its parliament affirmed Zelenskyy as the country's president. He is very popular with his people.
Trump is a grifter. He is no peacemaker! He and his senate-enabled bullies are running rampant and ruining democracies everywhere. I am worried that Dems like you are not fighting back hard enough. Trump needs to be stopped. Collins is spineless. We here in your district managed to outvote the Mainer MAGAs and elect you… don’t let us down the way Collins has…
Good on you for the shell company bill.. republicans will most likely defeat it… we need to get more dems in the house,,,, and rid ourselves of Collins in favor of a senate dem… before it is too late.. I fear it already may be!!
I am NOT in favor of "calling for elections" in the middle of a war with so many of the Ukrainian population displaced and/or simply not able to physically cast a vote. Zelenskyy has already offered to resign, and that idea was rejected. Trump is not being an honest broker and he provoked that display in the Oval Office exactly so that he could reject Ukraine and turn instead to his "buddy" Putin. There is no possibility of a REAL offer from Trump, so stop trying to please both sides of your constituency. Make your stand WITH Ukraine and take the honorable path's consequences.
You don't make it clear that you support further aid to Ukraine. Zooming in you see corruption, zooming out you see Ukraine's devastation, so how are we helped in your note? How is Ukraine supported by you? This is either bad writing, or backless lack of a position. Which do you intend?
thank you. it helps to know what you are doing. and I am furious about the shell company bill fiasco. and scared. trump's put in style management is too terrifying. I hope the us Marshall's office can continue to support the constitution and arrest him when it comes to that. I do not understand why it hasn't come to that yet.
I am sickened by what is happening in our country and especially ashamed of how Zelensky and Ukraine are being treated. How is it possible this is happening? How blind can Trump supporters be? His message is greed, power, corruption, bullying, racism, sexism, homophobia, white supremacy and control. Whatever happened to civilized concepts such as caring for the less fortunate and accepting different viewpoints. As an older American I am bewildered and heartbroken to know so many people support this evil man and his cohorts.
Get off of the fence. Sitting there with Susan is NOT helping. The war has gone on for 3 years, not 2 and Trump is NOT helping. He is trying to extort the only wealth Ukraine has to rebuild with and negotiating with Putin on Putin’s terms. Get over calling this a negotiation- he is switching sides in the middle of a war and selling out our allies. This is not a gray area- and as a congressman you have the POWER OF THE PURSE. There are Republicans who also feel strongly on this issue and this is the hill to die on! Man up!
Examine the agreement that Zelensky & Trump were supposed to sign. It is not extorting wealth from Ukraine. It was mutually beneficial to both sides…not a one sided deal. It would provide funds to Ukraine to help rebuild and provide some funds back to the US as replacement for the 200,000,000+ that the US sent to Ukraine over the past 3 yrs. Additionally, the fact that the US would be mining in what would effectively be a DMZ, Russia would be extremely unlikely to start another invasion. Zelensky said today that he will be signing the agreement but I’m betting that he won’t be asked back to the WH for the signing.
Why do you think that the US saying they would take at least 1/2 of Ukraine's rare earth minerals and give NOTHING in return would be "beneficial to both sides"? And who has said that the US would "pay" Ukraine for those minerals? I haven't heard that anywhere.
The pay is the helping with rebuilding. There is a value to that. And that was mentions in the talks.
That’s not the arrangement. Ukraine was/is getting significant funds. Check it out. There wouldn’t be any reason for Ukraine to sign a deal with no advantage for them.
It is amazing how many parrot the same Russia Russia Russia story line. Trump is not about Russian. He is a businessman. And is used to working with contracts. And at least President Trump is better respected then the previous administrations.
Not respected by the WEF, EU (European Nations that belong to Nato).
Bullshit weakass arguments…no integrity, no loyalty!!! Did you not know we agreed to protect Ukraine when we talked them into getting rid of their nukes?? Trump. A failed businessman 6 times over that would screw over his own mother for a dime!
Eric Trump said that they didn't need U.S. banks because they got plenty of money from Russia. Russian banks are in trouble, thus Trump's money is in trouble. Of course he's cow towing to Putin. Always follow the money with Trump.
“used to working with contracts” - not unlike Putin, contracts that he often violates, as I understand it.
Oh, and he is very much a failed businessman. 6 or 7 bankruptcies. Cheating contractors. He still oes cities millions for rallies that has never been paid.
Not sure I understand where you got the $200 billion figure from, I’m lead to believe the USA gave $115 billion in aid since 2014 the year Putin’s Russia invaded Crimea.
Oh, I dunno, with many Republicans in Congress now pursuing a $1 trillion budget for the Department of Defense, a piddling $115 billion (or even $200 billion) to find out Russia is a paper tiger and unparalleled access to Ukrainian battlespace development of cutting edge drone warfare I’d say we get more than our moneys worth.
Biden gave 115 early in the war and additional funds to bring the combine in economic aid & military hardware to 200. Zelensky has said he can’t account for significant amount of that.
200,000,000,000.
Can you document?
The closest I can get is from several independent sources that say 175b but that wouldn’t account for all the NGOs.
How does the Executive Branch get to choose not to enforce the rule, if that rule was promulgated under the authority of the law? I'm struggling to understand how the Executive Branch, charged with implementing the laws passed by Congress, is permitted to continue this dereliction of duty (at a minimum) without a check by Congress?
On the matter of Ukraine, if they desire to continue the fight, our obligations under Budapest say that we continue to arm them. When did we get to be so paternalistic as to decide that they should no longer lay down their lives for their country because it's 'too much loss of life'- like we're some kind of parent wading into a fistfight between two children over lunch money 'because it's gone on too long'. Except in this case, after ending the fight, the teacher is going take the one kid's lunch money, take half, and give the rest to the bully. All this while we continue to send bombs to Israel, which really exposes the hypocrisy of saying we're doing it to save lives. This administration does not GAF about saving anyone's lives (except for the fetuses, when they can get people to the polls.)
There are Laws that Congress Passes that actually infringe upon the Executive Branch of Gov. The Article II provision of the President outlines them. There are currently cased headed or at the Supreme Court that hopefully with clarify things. But for years Congress been working to strip the Executive Branch of its Powers. It is interesting following the case of the Special Council that just made it to the Supreme Court. And the case related to USAID also made it there. But in this last case a district court judge ordered the President to resume ALL aid moneys by midnight on a date. That case Chief Justice Roberts had to wake up in the night (Maybe an exaggeration) but the stay to that case was put in place like 10pm. The district judge (an expatiate from Canada maybe did not know our Constitution too good before he was installed under Biden) But he had overstepped his authority in ordering the release of monies with no exceptions. Well from following the case the Sec of States office has been review and completed the contracts under the USAID and either resumed them or terminated them. It was a pause to make sure the money was going to good causes. Money going to terrorist groups we should not be supporting as an example.
With all due respect Mr Golden, Zelensky can not hold elections while his country is at war. Trump and Putin are spiraling the US into a dictatorship and I wish you and your congress would STOP THEM! WE THE PEOPLE are trying but can't do it all on our own. Please stand up and fight for our democratic republic and the UK, the EU, etc. Thank you!
Repeating Russian demands that Zelensky should violate Ukraine's constitution to hold a wartime election is not the nuanced moderate stance you are presenting it as. The US promised Ukraine security when they agreed to nuclear disarmament, we are now reneging on those promises yet again. Russia started this war by violating a ceasefire. Pretend peace deals that attempt to appease Russia by sacrificing the lives of Ukrainian civilians will only lead to a stronger Russia taking more lives, not any lasting peace.
I AGREE BUT THEN AGAIN, putin's POODLES IN THE wHITE hOUSE HAVE ALSO RENEGED ON NATO. APPEASEMENT TO AN AGGRESSOR NEVER WORKS...THEY JUST BECOME MORE BRAZEN AND THEY'LL ALWAYS WANT MORE. KATE
I do agree with you on this.
Are you high? We promised Ukraine in a treaty that if they got rid of their nuclear weapons we would always come to their aid AGAINST Russia. You sitting there and watching this lunatic gut the democracy is more and more frightening every day. Continue to fight for today what you did in the past, - dignity, fairness, and democracy.
Russia has signed a myriad of agreements to respect Ukraine's sovereignty and borders. And has violated all of them.
Once again, thank you Jared for all you are doing for us.it pains me to see that there are many of us who see the real picture of what is happening in Washington. With a wave of a pen, and help from republicans and the tainted supreme court, Trump just dissolves all watch dog agencies designed to protect us from fraud, deceit, and keep people accountable.
The side show with Trump and Vance was indeed made for "good tv" . It was disheartening to see such a spectacle from a supposed leader. Vance was despicable!
Zelensky deserves an apology. Our country will never be the same.
“ But if the Trump administration is going to play peacemaker, it should do so with full understanding that Russia is a threat to our country, not a friend. We should steer the ship toward a peace in our interest — not Putin’s.”
Indeed, it behooves us all to ask and get answered President Trumps belief of who is a threat to our nation and Ukraine’s wellbeing before we endorse (believe?) him as peacemaker……
Let’s put Trump, Musk, Vance and other bullies on a spaceship to go colonize Mars and never to return. They are ruining our lives and our democracy. I am totally disgusted with our government.
What can you , collectively, do about an unelected citizen tearing down government with a chain saw? He has no constitutional authority to do what he is doing.
Jared,
You’re quite wrong - as a practicing attorney in Maine the beneficial owner filing requirement was a clear time and expense burden to my business clients - 95% of which are small businesses.
It was also an unconstitutional overreach by the federal government - that’s why it’s gone - I know thats an inconvenient fact.
Yes - Trump is Hitler - I get it
Has the statute been successfully challenged in court? If it hasn't been invalidated, it should be obeyed. Where its enforcement is arguably unreasonable, seek exemption or amendment. Trump wants to conceal his flagrant self-dealing. We shouldn't let him.
It really is a dreadful law. It doesn’t target shell companies - it applies to all very small businesses, including LLCs set up to avoid liability on side income.
It applies only to very small businesses, rather than targeting the tiny subset of those very small businesses that do suspicious things. And if those tiny businesses don’t update their information on time, they get fined $500 per day, plus the potential of jail time. It applies to my minuscule farmers market business, which has never hit 1,000 gross revenue per year and has zero employees.
You cannot get a lawyer to do this form for $85, and these are tiny businesses that do not have legal departments.
I am all for stopping money laundering, but how about putting in a revenue threshold? No one is going to be laundering money through a LLC making $500 per year selling extras from their hobby farm. People selling heirloom veggies are not really the money launderer demographic.
They were burdening 32 million ordinary people to get to what, 100 money launderers? When you could target small LLCs that had high income, and either require them to report, or get a warrant for the bank.
Yes it has - with a minimal amount of effort you would discover a federal appeals court halted enforcement a few months ago.
Nice shot at Trump though - good to see that TDS is still raging.
Hmm. With respect, by your reasoning our fathers who fought in WW2 were suffering HDS.
Jared, Representatives and Senators alike need to step up in defense of Ukraine. They didn't ask to be invaded 3 years ago, nor when Russia took over Crimea when Obama was president. We don't have a treaty with Ukraine, but the US, along with several of our allies (and even Russia) signed a pact (actually 3 documents) that they would protect Ukraine from invasion in exchange for Ukraine giving up all its nuclear weapons. Putin broke that pact when he invaded Crimea and the US and other countries that signed that pact should have acted back then. Seeing that the US didn't really do anything about Crimea, he was emboldened to invade more of Ukraine. While Zelenskyy wasn't at his best last week, I think he was sandbagged. Any agreements between nations had been done in private and only when finalized were they publicized. Trump came off as a bully (as did his whip dog Vance). The Ukranian ambassador was seriously upset, but I believe more about how Trump and Vance behaved "for the cameras". Trump called Zelenskyy a dictator. His countrymen love him. While at war, their constitution doesn't call for elections and more recently its parliament affirmed Zelenskyy as the country's president. He is very popular with his people.
Trump is a grifter. He is no peacemaker! He and his senate-enabled bullies are running rampant and ruining democracies everywhere. I am worried that Dems like you are not fighting back hard enough. Trump needs to be stopped. Collins is spineless. We here in your district managed to outvote the Mainer MAGAs and elect you… don’t let us down the way Collins has…
Good on you for the shell company bill.. republicans will most likely defeat it… we need to get more dems in the house,,,, and rid ourselves of Collins in favor of a senate dem… before it is too late.. I fear it already may be!!
I am NOT in favor of "calling for elections" in the middle of a war with so many of the Ukrainian population displaced and/or simply not able to physically cast a vote. Zelenskyy has already offered to resign, and that idea was rejected. Trump is not being an honest broker and he provoked that display in the Oval Office exactly so that he could reject Ukraine and turn instead to his "buddy" Putin. There is no possibility of a REAL offer from Trump, so stop trying to please both sides of your constituency. Make your stand WITH Ukraine and take the honorable path's consequences.
You don't make it clear that you support further aid to Ukraine. Zooming in you see corruption, zooming out you see Ukraine's devastation, so how are we helped in your note? How is Ukraine supported by you? This is either bad writing, or backless lack of a position. Which do you intend?
thank you. it helps to know what you are doing. and I am furious about the shell company bill fiasco. and scared. trump's put in style management is too terrifying. I hope the us Marshall's office can continue to support the constitution and arrest him when it comes to that. I do not understand why it hasn't come to that yet.
I am sickened by what is happening in our country and especially ashamed of how Zelensky and Ukraine are being treated. How is it possible this is happening? How blind can Trump supporters be? His message is greed, power, corruption, bullying, racism, sexism, homophobia, white supremacy and control. Whatever happened to civilized concepts such as caring for the less fortunate and accepting different viewpoints. As an older American I am bewildered and heartbroken to know so many people support this evil man and his cohorts.