This will be short and a companion to my original post >> CBC Questions Cherokee Vote on Black Descendants
The cherokee nation has a budget of about $300 million, and about 80 percent of it comes from the federal government. So congresswoman Diane Watson wants to cut their funding because of the tribe's recent vote to revoke citizenship of slave descendants.
"It's blatantly apparent that the Cherokee Nation violated their constitution," Watson said. "The Department of Interior has a fiduciary duty to act. ... They should be going after them. It shouldn't take me and the other members of the Congressional Black Caucus to pursue the issue."