As I've documented many times, Alaska is an odd place, politically. We're reliably Republican in presidential elections. The last Democrat to gain the Great Land's three (wow!) electoral votes was Lyndon Johnson, in 1964. The Matanuska-Susitna Borough, where my wife and I hang our hats, is pretty red, politically. But our state legislature is strongly influenced by a weird coalition of Democrats and squishy Republicans, and most inexplicably, Princess Lisa Murkowski keeps getting re-elected.

Now, with Donald Trump back in the White House, Princess Lisa - supposedly a Republican - is afraid, and she seems to think we should be, too.

The Republican senior senator appeared for a 45-minute discussion with Laurie Wolf, president and CEO of The Foraker Group, during its annual leadership summit — the state’s largest gathering of nonprofit and tribal leaders — at a conference center in downtown Anchorage.

The questions were wide-ranging. Most dealt with the extreme uncertainty felt by many working in the public sector, nonprofit services and social safety net programs since the start of the second Trump administration in January.

“It is head spinning,” Murkowski said. “It seems that just when you’ve made a little bit of progress on one issue that had caused so much anxiety, there’s another one.”

The fact that Princess Lisa has been in the Senate since 2002 has my head spinning. She was, as I've mentioned many times, handed that Senate seat by her father, Frank Murkowski; old Frank was in that Senate chair when he was elected governor, and handed the seat off to his daughter like a feudal title. Thus the nickname: Princess Lisa. But, to give the devil her due, she has clung to that Senate seat with the tenacity of a barnacle ever since, even winning a write-in election after being ousted in the Republican primary in 2010.

Now we have ranked-choice voting, which, of course, Princess Lisa enthusiastically supports.

Back to her speech:

The potential cuts she is most stressed by, she said, are broad changes to Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the National Endowment for the Humanities, because of the disproportionately large impact they have on Alaskans. She also said she was unnerved by how USAID had “just been obliterated,” and by threats to end Ukrainian refugee resettlement inside the U.S.

Murkowski said that amid recent rumors that AmeriCorps would be terminated, she’d texted Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to try to register her concerns, but wasn’t clear how effective that kind of access to the White House might ultimately prove.

Probably because the Trump administration is aware that Princess Lisa harbors a riverine flood of Trump Derangement Syndrome that dwarfs the Matanuska River when the ice goes out.

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Here's my advice for the Trump administration: If Princess Lisa is unhappy, we're probably on the right course. As for the program cuts, I can give you nearly 37 trillion reasons why this has to be done, yesterday if not last month.

Lisa Murkowski comes up for re-election in 2028. If all goes according to plan, ranked-choice voting will be on our ballot for repeal again in 2026. The stars are aligning for us, Alaskans. Let's get this done.

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