Lisa Murkowski Says 'We Are All Afraid' Of Retaliation By Donald Trump [View all]

Source: HuffPost

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“We are all afraid,” Murkowski told Alaska nonprofit leaders on Wednesday, according to The Anchorage Daily News. “It’s quite a statement. But we are in a time and a place where I certainly have not been here before. And I’ll tell ya, I’m oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice, because retaliation is real. And that’s not right.”

“It’s called the checks and balances. And right now we are not balancing as the Congress,” she added.

The independent-minded Alaska senator is one of the last remaining Republicans willing to publicly criticize Trump. Last month, she said her fellow GOP colleagues are “afraid” to speak out against the president and risk drawing a primary.

Murkowski said Wednesday she was unnerved by how quickly the U.S. Agency for International Development, which was established by Congress, had “just been obliterated” by the Trump administration. And she expressed alarm at the politicization of the judiciary under Trump, saying it was putting America in “a very dangerous place, because you stop believing in the rule of law.”

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