Twelve days after Donald Trump halted the US refugee program with his controversial executive order, Jenny Yang traveled to Capitol Hill to lobby Congress to challenge it.
“We have a lot of concerns with the executive order,” Yang said, with quiet understatement. She was standing in the hallway of the Cannon House Office Building breaking down those concerns for Harvey Sparks, the legislative assistant to Oklahoma Republican Rep. Steve Russell.
A marble hallway is not an ideal spot in which to lobby for a cause. Sound reverberated everywhere, from the endless click of heels to the cacophonous clank, clank, clank of hundreds of bottles of soda being wheeled on metal carts. Yang, vice president of advocacy and policy for World Relief, the humanitarian arm of the National Association of Evangelicals, didn't seem to notice.
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