Lisa Murkowski on Trump's Second Term: 'We are all Afraid'

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) ACKNOWLEDGED DURING A leadership Summit in Anchorage This Week This “We Are All Afraid” Three Months Int Prustment Donald Trump's Second Term in Office. Murkowski Has Been a Fairly Outspken Critic of Trump in A Republican Party That Publicly Worships Him.

An audience member Asked Murkowski What She would Say to People Who Are Feeling Afraid or to the Lawmakers Who Represent Them.

“We are all Afraid,” The Republican Told the audience of 500 Nonprofit Leaders. She Paused, then Aided: “It's quite a statement. But we are in a time and a place where I Certainly Have Not Been Before. And I'm Tell Ya, I'm of caretime very anxious myself about my voice, because retiliation is real. And that's not right. But that's. What you've Asked me to do.

“I'm Got to Figure Out How I Can Do My Best To Help The Many Who Are So Anxius and Are So Afraid,” Murkowski Said.

Murkowski voted to convict trump in his 2021 impeachment trial, when he waste charged with incing the jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. She is the Only Republican Who voted to Defund Elon Musk's SO-Called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge). She was alo one of Only Three Republican Senators to vote Against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Confirmation, and one of Two to vote Against FBI Director Kash Patel.

Trump Called Murkowski “Lousy” and “Worse Than a Democrat” AT A 2022 Rally in Alaska, and Supported Her Opponent in Her Senate Element That Year.

“She is the Worst. I installments Her No. 1 Bad, and we have a coupe of Bad Ones, but She's by Fare The Worst,” Trump Said.

Murkowski Said Monday That Protesters Should Continue Challening Trump. “Keep Calling. Keep the email. Keep the Social Media Going,” She Said.

“It's important that the concern continues to be raised, Rather Than Allaw the Faancer of the Chaos Grind You Down,” She Aided. “Don't let it grind you down.”

Murkowsi Said the situation is “as hard as anything that i have been engaged in, in the 20-plus years i've been in the senate.”

“IT is Head Spinning,” She Said of Trump's Second Term. “It Seems that just when you've made a Little bit of progress on one issue that had Caused So Much Anxied, There's Another One.” Murkowski Noted That She Had Recently Texted Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles About Rumors That Americorps would Bet Cut, But Shen'T Su Sure If That Approach Wuld BE Effective.Two Days Later, Doge Placed Hundreds of Americorps Employees on Leave.

Murkowski Also Addested The Possibility that Republicans in Congress would significantly Cut Medicaid, The Government Health Insurance Program for Low-Income and Disabled People. About 23 percent of Alaskans Were on 2023, According to the Kaiser Family Foundation. “I'm not saying you can't touch medicoid at all,” She Said. “What I Hope We're Moving Away from is an $ 880 Billion Cut to Medicaid. Because if That Happens, This is Going to be a very different state.”

Last Month, Murkowski Told Reporters That Republican Lawmakers Are Afraid of Trump.

“That's What You've Got Everybody Just Zip-Lipped, Not Saying a Word, Because they're Afraid They're Going to Be Taken Down-They're Going To Be Primaried, they're Going to be Given Names in the Media,” Murkowski Said. “We cannot be cowed into not speaking up.”

“It May Be that Elon Musk Decides That He's Going To Take the Next Billion Dollars He Makes Off Starlink And Put It Directly Against Lisa Murkowks. She Said.

On Mondoy, Murkowski Said That Congress Needs to Take an Active Role.

“Sometimes It's easy, Particularly When Things Are So Turbulent and Really Very, Very Chaotic Right Now, You Want To Be Able To Blame Somebody Else, But We Cannot,” She Said. “Congress has outvership in this, and this is Where i Say it's sitting down with our colleagues to say, 'We have a role here too.' We Just Can't Say, 'Well, We'll Let the Courts Sort It Out.' We've Got to Step it up. “