Following Donald Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Alaska Democratic Party Chair Eric Croft released the following statement: 

“Just as we expected, Trump failed to accomplish anything meaningful by inviting a war criminal to a meeting on American soil without Ukrainian representation at the table. As Trump spends his time ‘being neighborly’ with Putin, Ukrainians’ lives are on the line, Americans are losing access to necessary services, including health care, food assistance, and life-saving emergency alerts, and millionaires like Representative Nick Begich and Senator Dan Sullivan are lining their own pockets by voting for tax giveaways. To be frank, we are disappointed, but not surprised, and we will not back down from applying pressure to Trump to achieve lasting peace in Ukraine.”