This unit – comprised entirely of Black Women – completed the nearly impossible job of clearing a mail backlog of 17 million letters in less than 90 days. My office is working to name the post office in Collinwood in her honor – Srgt Minter deserves her flowers! Now we’re one step closer.

This honors the memory of a local WW2 hero and helps more people learn about the Six Triple Eight, an overlooked Army unit of Black women who answered our nation’s call. Next step – passing the House.

It’s misogynistic, it’s racist, and it’s lazy. If he really believed she wasn’t effective, he wouldn’t be ranting about her in a cabinet meeting –especially one he couldn’t even stay awake for.

He’s already weaponized ICE against Black and Hispanic neighborhoods and he’s laying the groundwork to go even further.

And one last thing: his comments about @repilhan.bsky.social being “incompetent”? Black women know that playbook all too well.

To Trump, it doesn’t matter if you’re Somali, Haitian, or African American – we’re all just props in his latest round of disgusting fear mongering.

Every public official should denounce this racism and the violence it will no doubt encourage. When he talks like this, violence follows.

This is who he is, and he’s only getting louder about it.

As a Member of Congress, a Black woman, and a human being, I must call this what is it is: racist, dangerous, and meant to turn people into targets.

It’s time for Speaker Johnson to bring this bill to the floor without delay.