Chris Lu
@ChrisLu44
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Former public servant. Now just a concerned private citizen.
Joined January 2012
New in @ForeignPolicy: The #UN isn’t perfect - but it’s one of America’s greatest home-field advantages. Walk away, and we hand China the pen to rewrite the playbook. @anajanaina and I explain why the smart move is principled reform, not retreat.
foreignpolicy.com
Autocracies around the world stand to gain.
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Today, many leaders will rightly condemn President Donald Trump’s unlawful and unjust actions in Venezuela, and I join them. But just as glaring, and far more damning, is Congress’ ongoing abdication of its constitutional duty. For almost a year now, the legislative branch has
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Don’t be fooled: you can’t both claim this was simply the execution of an arrest warrant AND say the U.S. is now "running" Venezuela & grabbing its oil resources. Trump just admitted this was a clear regime-change play to enrich U.S. oil companies & his billionaire buddies.
Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies. Full statement below:
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To believe this is about drug smuggling, you have to ignore Trump’s pardon of the former Honduran president for drug smuggling. To believe it’s about Maduro’s democratic legitimacy, you have to believe Trump cares even slightly about democratic legitimacy. Alternatively:
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Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress. Trump rejected our Constitutionally required approval process for armed conflict
Breaking News: President Trump said that the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader, and that he is being flown out of the country. Follow live updates.
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Second unjustified war in my life time. This war is illegal, it’s embarrassing that we went from the world cop to the world bully in less than one year. There is no reason for us to be at war with Venezuela.
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An absolute travesty. In firing nearly 30 career Ambassadors, the Trump Administration has weakened U.S. diplomacy worldwide. No President has done anything like this in the 101-year history of the Foreign Service. https://t.co/d3OxkelTDz via @NYTimes
nytimes.com
A union representing career diplomats said such a mass recall had never happened in the history of the U.S. Foreign Service.
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The Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law. It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says.
I have just been informed that the highly respected Board of the Kennedy Center, some of the most successful people from all parts of the world, have just voted unanimously to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, because of the unbelievable work President Trump
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Adding your name to a memorial already named in honor of a great man doesn’t make you a great man. Quite the contrary. Putting your name on top of someone else’s doesn’t mean that people will speak of you in the same breath as the other man. Putting your name above another man’s
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Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
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Thank you to @GovernorVA and the First Lady for welcoming Adam and me to the Executive Mansion today. Our teams are working together closely to ensure a smooth transition and success for Virginia’s future.
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Thank you to Rep. @SarahEMcBride and Sen. @LisaBRochester for joining us at #NoKings Southern Delaware. Still early and over 1,000 people out here.
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Several New York Republicans who voted to expel Santos from the House are criticizing Trump’s commutation of the disgraced former congressman >>
George Santos didn’t merely lie — he stole millions, defrauded an election, and his crimes (for which he pled guilty) warrant more than a three-month sentence. He should devote the rest of his life to demonstrating remorse and making restitution to those he wronged.
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I think this tells you everything you need to know.
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I congratulate Amb @ChrisLu44 on his selection as Board Chair of the @FairLaborAssoc. Chris served our nation as Deputy Secretary of Labor, and later as U.S. Ambassador for UN Management and Reform, where he led my team’s oversight, accountability, and reform agenda at the United
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The White House has withdrawn its nomination of a woefully unqualified partisan hack — EJ Antoni — to be BLS Commissioner, and sometimes the system actually works. https://t.co/kqATd1KHoO
cnn.com
The White House has sent paperwork to the Senate to withdraw the nomination of E.J. Antoni as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, three sources told CNN.
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Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.
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My office is reaching out to the White House and Homeland Security for more information. We have been provided no information on the reason or purpose of any military mission. There is no national security threat in Portland. Our communities are safe and calm.
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What I am hearing from DoJ sources: The Comey indictment is among the worst abuses in DOJ history. Shocking. It’s hard to overstate how a big a moment this is.
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(Spanberger isn’t currently in Congress)
Why did Congresswoman Spanberger vote against the continuing resolution to keep the government open. She wants to be governor of Virginia and yet Virginians who work for the federal government will be directly hurt by her vote. She should be voting to keep the government open and
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