The 162 signatories include rabbis, members of Congress, state legislators, pastors, and national leaders, reflecting a broad interfaith effort to address concerns about El-Sayed's rhetoric.
Mariana Trujillo, managing director of government finance at Reason Foundation, said state, county and local governments and school districts are accumulating a lot of unfunded obligations.
While the video had been framed as a joke at his expense, it led to an outpouring of sympathy for him and a GoFundMe ultimately raised $502,667 for him as of press time.
The rule clarified and closed a loophole in the preamble of a 2024 rule, which suggested that gender dysphoria could qualify as a disability, although the rule itself was silent on the issue.
The legal action, supported by the Southern Shrimp Alliance, also names several major U.S. retailers, including Aldi and Meijer, which allegedly sell shrimp linked to the company's supply chain.
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kans., had presented an optimistic assessment, suggesting that Trump had canceled the Kansas rally because his strong poll performances indicated his time would be spent better elsewhere.
Investigators say the scheme used stolen identities of real Americans to enroll fake students and take more than $200 million in taxpayer-funded aid. The money never reached its intended recipients.