Grace Meng

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams today on Spectrum News 1.

Congresswoman Grace Meng, Democrat from New York, writing on X, these rogue federal agents cannot continue to terrorize our communities.

The agents involved must be held fully accountable for this violence.

We need to get ICE off of our streets, away from our children, and out of our city for good.

Still ahead this morning, President Trump is facing bipartisan pushback over his plans to cancel nearly a billion dollars in congressionally approved spending.

Democratic Congresswoman Grace Meng of New York is going to join me to explain the potential impact of that move.

That's next on Way Too Early.

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Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who chairs the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, joined Democrats in strongly criticizing this move.

She said lawmakers were informed without warning or consultation and called it the most recent attempt by the administration's Office of Management and Budget to undermine Congress's constitutional power of the purse.

I want to bring in Democratic Congresswoman Grace Meng of New York.

She serves on the House Appropriations Committee.

In 2023, New York City declared Diwali a school holiday, and the Pennsylvania government declared it as a state holiday.

The Congresswoman Grace Meng, representing New York, has even introduced legislation to make it a federal holiday as well.

All of this seems to be responding to the growing Indian American population.

Between 1980 and 2019, the Indian immigrant population in the US increased by 13 times.