MD-04 He reunited families separated under Trump. Now he's running for Congress.
I'm excited about this gentleman who is challenging corporate Dem Glenn Ivey.
Jonathan White fought the first Trump administration’s efforts to separate migrant families, doing bureaucratic battle with officials such as Stephen Miller while working to reunite children with their parents.
He managed to keep his federal job, even after testifying to Congress that President Donald Trump’s family-separation policies had harmed thousands of children, a headline-grabbing public rebuke of a president known for prizing retribution. But after Trump returned to office this year, and White watched billionaire Elon Musk take a buzz saw to the government he had spent two decades serving, he couldn’t help but wonder: Where was the resistance?
Now 56 and freshly retired from the Department of Health and Human Services, White says he has a new mission — challenging Democrats that he believes aren’t doing enough to fight the Trump administration. He’s starting with an unlikely bid to unseat his own popular, two-term congressman, Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Maryland).
“We need an opposition party. What we have is a club of people who view these as their offices for life,” White said in an interview with The Washington Post, chastising Democratic leaders for their handling of the government shutdown and other priorities. “They have failed, and they must be replaced.”
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