We’ve seen this before. President Trump wasting your tax dollars to attack cities who value diversity and stand up for our immigrant and refugee neighbors.
It’s uncalled for and unnecessary. Recent reports show that Portland has seen a rapid decline in homicides and other violent crime this year, and crime has been trending downward overall for multiple years.
If the President truly wanted to help Portland and Multnomah County, he would reverse his callous cuts to public health and safety net services like Medicaid — decisions that harm people in red and blue states alike. The President’s policies are supercharging an affordability crisis that is hitting us hard locally, raising the cost of food, housing and medicine for thousands of our residents.
Multnomah County is a beautiful and proud place. We welcome genuine cooperation that would improve the lives of hard-working County residents, protect our Constitutional rights and bring us together to help our community thrive.
But if the best President Trump has to offer is more harm and chaos, then we don't want or need his intervention here.