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In a letter sent Friday to the Smithsonian Institution's secretary, Lonnie G. Bunch, Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and three other Democratic senators urged Bunch to resist any attempts by the White House to "bully the institution to go against its mission and values."

The letter from the four Senate Democrats comes weeks after President Trump called the Smithsonian and museums "all over the Country essentially, the last remaining segment of 'WOKE.' " On Truth Social, he said that the Smithsonian presents a narrative of the country's history that is about "how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future."

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