This undated photo from the office of U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., shows him at a meeting during a recent visit to Ukraine. Kelly has long supported U.S. aid to Ukraine, which has included training that nation鈥檚 pilots in 蜜柚直播 on using F-16 fighter jets.
Kelly no traitor
Senator Mark Kelly represents everything America should stand for. His honorable service and loyalty to our country is without question. Kelly has put his life on the line to defend our country. It is beyond sickening and disgusting that that President Elon called Kelly 鈥渁 traitor.鈥
Kudos to Senator Kelly鈥檚 recent trip to Ukraine. His reporting on the continued unspeakable brutality and war crimes inflicted on the Ukrainian people should shock Americans to their very core. Yet, the Putin wing of the GOP continues to betray Ukraine by giving the green light to Russia to bomb Ukraine into the Stone Age and commit unspeakable brutality and torture.
Kelly is correct when he says 鈥渢he safety of Ukraine is tied to the safety of the United States.鈥 Any peace deal to end Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine must ensure Ukraine鈥檚 security, sovereignty, and the reclaiming their territory that Russia has seized. The White House and the silent GOP are the real traitors in our country.
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Kathy Krucker
Midtown
No climate crisis聽鈥 whew!
We can sleep a lot easier, now that Jeffrey McConnell has assuaged our fears about the so-called climate crisis. He knows! No need to listen to angry right-wing radio, we get the same content almost daily in his LTEs. Let's play semantics聽鈥 "climate change", "climate crisis", "climate emergency", "global warming". No matter the words, Trump is right about climate (and everything else), according to the letter. Like Trump, he must denigrate Greta Thunberg, unhappy that a young, brilliant female is smarter than he is. I guess the California fires, North Carolina flooding, and East coast hurricanes are just normal "weather," as are the ever-shrinking ice caps聽鈥 must be AI-generated photos! And gosh, why have home insurance costs skyrocketed? Maybe Mr. McConnell should read "Why your home insurance has gone up" article from Sun. March 9. Jeffrey states "the Republican dictionary addresses climate solutions". Really? Like burning as much fossil fuel as possible? Trump and his cult are all for it. Right-wing idiocy full speed ahead!
Deb Klumpp
Oro Valley
Killing two birds with one stone
As a Jew who spent my formative years in New York where Trump and his father overtly practiced antisemitism and racism, I worry and fear that Trump is setting Jews up as scapegoats because of his attempt to deport Mahmoud Kalil on the pretext of opposing antisemitism. Let there be no doubt that Trump is a virulent anti-Semite, bigot and racist. He should not be permitted to violate the First Amendment's protections under the guise of opposing antisemitism. In short, Trump doesn't care about Jews and he's setting us up, once again, as scapegoats: Protests will rage against Jews under the guise of protecting free speech. Trump's trying to kill two birds with one stone.
Barbara Benjamin
Foothills
The goal
By now, the chaos and cluelessness of the DOGE 鈥榬eorganization鈥 are apparent, and the list of cut programs is so full of errors that the touted savings are questionable. Since many of the programs are culture-war targets, however, the administration can distract the MAGA base from the fact that they are a small part of federal spending聽鈥 the Republican budget will also require reductions in major health-care programs and Social Security.
According to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the administration鈥檚 goal is to privatize the current services of the federal government. But privatizing public goods such as weather information or air traffic control should be carefully considered, since private profit adds to costs.
Often the private sector is assumed to be more efficient than the government. DOGE provides one counterexample. Another is the Medicare Advantage program, sold to the public as a means of bringing down costs. But increased efficiency never materialized, and MA has always cost taxpayers more than traditional Medicare.
Barbara Hall
Midtown
The national debt
The national debt problem is real, however, there is no solution without reforming entitlements to make them sustainable. Since the President and Congress have no inclination to do that, DOGE is just political theater聽鈥 a cruel tragedy. Seniors who actually want to drain the swamp should opt out of Social Security and Medicare instead of saying "I earned it" while taking out far more in benefits than they paid in.
Pete Kasper
Foothills
Dems and Reps can agree
Not much legislation is getting passed these days. Who knows whether that鈥檚 due to dysfunction or the lack of appetite for any meaningful reform. But the Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act was recently re-introduced and it will ensure Medicare beneficiaries have access to this new screening technology. I would like to thank Democrat Senator Mark Kelly and Republican Congressman Juan Ciscomani for co-sponsoring the bill in their respective chambers. Currently, most cancers lack routine screening methods, leaving too many patients unmotivated to get screened until it is too late. MCED tests can revolutionize early detection and save countless lives while reducing the burdens that come with late-stage cancer treatment. Early detection should not be a privilege 鈥 it should be a standard of care. I hope the rest of Congress follows the lead of Sen. Kelly and Rep. Ciscomani in co-sponsoring this and pushing for its passage. We need to give more Americans the chance to survive cancer through early diagnosis.
Vanessa Romero
Midtown
The clown act
As a social Worker for forty years in this community, serving those that suffer from mental illness, I see many who are poverty-stricken. They are despondent due to this administration's actions. Many go without meals so they can afford vital medications. Donald and his billionaire sidekick Elon are busy serving the wealthy and waging economic warfare on our allies聽鈥 which will of course boomerang. (Check the price of Canadian and Mexican imported goods). My concern is that funds earmarked for mental illness will be cut further and that many in this nation of plenty will go as hungry as my father did during the Great Depression. We have forgotten that the hallmark of a civilized nation depends on how it treats its elderly and disabled.
Lollie Butler
Midtown
Tariffs
It is not "America First" to be pulling the economic rug out from those who voted for, and did not vote for, the winner of the November election. ALL voters now have to pay more because of Trump placed tariffs. I am sure Minnesota, New York, and Michigan do not want to be charged 25 per cent more for Canadian electricity. Certainly, those who voted for Trump did not plan on losing money because of market instability. Trump's tariffs will affect the price of all commodities and goods for all of us.
Toni Kane
Oro Valley
Canada trade war? Really?
I can't fathom the war with our biggest trade partner Canada! What is the issue? What does he think this is, South Park? There's no migration or drug issue. That's just another of the Trumpster's hallucinations. If you know anything about Canada you would see why this is just stupid; we will all pay dearly for his folly.
They say we get the government we deserve. At least some of us do. Republicans, grow a spine and put a stop to this now.
Richard Eaton
West side
World War III
Your Sunday Nation & World article 鈥淩ussian attacks kill 22鈥 in my opinion is a direct result of the administration鈥檚 withdrawal of U.S. satellite intelligence capability in retaliation for not saying thank-you enough. Come on, this is not kids play. Stop it now or WWIII with atomic warheads will be falling on us.
Richard Pierson
Southwest side
What a hypocrite
Current Trump post, "Can you imagine Canada stooping so low as to use electricity, that so affects the life
of innocent people, as a bargaining chip and threat?"
Can you imagine Trump stooping so low as to abandon Ukraine, that so affects the life of innocent people as a bargaining chip and threat?
Margie McDonnell
East side
A President with no limits
蜜柚直播 Supreme Court justice Clint Bolick warned recently of dangers to democracy if 鈥渢he president should get to decide his own constitutional authority, which means he has no limits,鈥 likening current efforts to those used by 鈥渁uthoritarian regimes.鈥 He cautioned against removing and replacing judges without cause, noting a later administration might follow the same strategy. Bolick鈥檚 comments follow efforts by Republican lawmakers in Montana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia to weaken or eliminate state judicial powers. Hopefully, comments like Bolick鈥檚 and other national judges will end both the Senate and House鈥檚 inability to stand up to President Trump in favor of their country and constituents.
Roger Shanley
East side
Unemployed veterans
I am reading about the poor veterans who are now unemployed due to Trump's cleanup of the nation鈥檚 overspending. I read about their used to be jobs in the government and are now wondering what they are going to do now to support themselves and their families. These are guys who served the United States with their lives. Just want you to know I spent two years in Vietnam as a marine.
Here is my question. What reason do you have for voting for Trump?
Jose Salgado
Northeast side
The real issue
The pundits, journalists, comedians and all the rest are spinning their wheels over the Trump Show need to stop wasting their time and answer the only real issue: who benefits from economic chaos? It's not wage earners or retirees on fixed incomes or small business owners. Only the speculators with deep pockets benefit from the flip flopping of the stock market, which Trump is orchestrating聽鈥 not from whims or impulse but as pay back to wealthy supporters. At one time we had a crime called insider trading. But when the Department of Justice and the FBI have been gutted and remade to do the biding of a convicted felon who went unpunished for his crime, no worries for those in the know.
Sally Wasielewski
East side
"Fiction abounds in a letter to the editor" Mar. 11
Mr. Michael A. Chihak is serious in the 蜜柚直播 Opinion: "Fiction abounds in a letter to the editor" (Mar. 11). The contents of the letter he questions gives him a chance to excoriate the obvious Republican constituent. Fair enough, although I wouldn't characterize the letter in question as real truth in facts. It seems the letter's intent is to exaggerate some of the Democratic Party's political positions. Such as illegal immigration when the letter says: "to promote an open border for all with no vetting." That has to be taken as tongue-in-cheek.
I posit the letter in question is worthy of the Babylon Bee, as an ironic or sarcastic illustration explaining the shortcomings of the Democratic Party. The writer of the letter Mr. Chihak skewers should apply for employment at the Babylon Bee. Any letter to the editor needs to "foolproof" its content so as to be above reproach. Otherwise, label your letter as satire.
Daniel Pryor
West side
