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Public disputes concerning public expenditure, fiscal commitments, payments, budgets, and the use of taxpayer funds.
Counts show individual statements. They do not assign an overall position.
2 statements on this page. Dates: September 16, 2026 to September 30, 2026
2 matching statements. Dates: September 16, 2026 to September 30, 2026
2 published statements. Dates: September 16, 2026 to September 30, 2026
2 published statements. Dates: September 16, 2026 to September 30, 2026
2 statements on this page. Dates: September 16, 2026 to September 30, 2026
Role at the time: U.S. representative and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee
Statement summary
Jamie Raskin joins a letter alleging that the Trump ads misuse public funds and requesting GAO and OSC investigations.
“These ads constitute an illegal use of taxpayer funds”
The September 30 letter asks GAO and OSC to investigate the spending and alleged legal violations. The lawmakers published it on October 1.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)The co-signed letter condemns public payment for the ads and seeks accountability.
Role at the time: U.S. Representative from Maryland, in a quote-post on his official X account (@RepRaskin)
Statement summary
In a post quoting an Associated Press report that fencing had gone up around the main Kennedy Center building after the board voted to close it, Raskin calls closing the center an affront to President Kennedy's memory, an attack on Congressional power and an assault on the livelihoods of the artists and workers who operate and perform there. He adds, 'We're demanding it remain open and free from the President's graffiti, vandalism and desecration.'
“Closing the Kennedy Center is an affront to President Kennedy's memory, an attack on Congressional power and an outrageous assault on the livelihoods of the artists and workers who operate and perform in our cultural center. We're demanding it remain open and free from the President’s graffiti, vandalism and desecration.”
Raskin's own post on the X account his House site lists, a quote-post of the Associated Press post about the fencing; it is not a reply. The post shows no edits. We did not save an archive copy of the post.
Raskin's own words call closing the center 'an affront to President Kennedy's memory' and demand that it 'remain open and free from the President's graffiti, vandalism and desecration', which rejects the closure and condemns the President's conduct toward the building without mentioning recognition by name. The closest competing label is “Challenged the characterization”, because part of the post recasts the President's conduct in its own labels. That loses because the passage goes on to express a clearer substantive condemnation of the closure, which the label guide places under condemns.
