President Trump has vowed to crack down on the extreme left-wing agenda — but a woke stronghold lurks a stone’s throw away.
The United States Senate Library — located in the basement of the Russell Senate office building in Washington D.C. — offers a slew of prominently displayed woke titles pumping everything from diversity equity and inclusion, far-left policy manifestos, polemics against Christians, and even deep dives into the long-discredited Russia probe.
The taxpayer-funded library — its 21-person payroll expenditures exceed $1.9 million per year — maintains a collection of 45,000 books and serves a population of roughly 6,000, mostly senators, committee sstaffers and other authorized users. It purports to be a strictly nonpartisan resource in the Capitol.
But of its thousands of tomes, it prominently highlights only a select, woke few in special cases and racks.
Among them are “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service,” by the recently pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Also highlighted is “The Message,” a DEI-screed by Ta-Nehisi Coates that has been condemned by some critics as antisemitic. Coates has himself speculated that he might have participated in the Oct 7 massacre against Israel if he grew up in Gaza.
“The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House,” by Trump’s longtime nemesis Rep. Nancy Pelosi, is also on display.
But none of President Trump’s 22 books are on display, and only one can be found in the stacks — his 1987 best-seller “Art of the Deal.” When The Post asked for a copy, a staffer said it was not kept on display and a library employee would have to go find it. The same treatment was meted out for Vice President Vance’s 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.”
But books on the baseless Trump-Russia allegations were in supply. “Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia, and the Mueller Investigation,” with a forward from former special counsel Robert Mueller, is highlighted prominently. The book’s Amazon description promises “never-before-revealed details into how the team investigated Putin’s campaign to favor candidate Donald Trump and Trump’s efforts to interfere in the investigation.”
Also on offer is “The Impeachment Report: The House Intelligence Committee’s Report on Its Investigation into Donald Trump and Ukraine.”
“The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy” — a “propulsive account of the network of charismatic Christians that consolidated support for Donald Trump and is reshaping religion and politics in the US” — is also available.
The Senate library traces its roots back to 1798. When the British burned the capitol in August 1814, its original collection was used to fuel the fire.
The library was then replaced with Thomas Jefferson’s personal collection. Today it is under the auspices of the secretary of the Senate and has been overseen by Senate Librarian Meghan Dunn since 2022.
Critics said the institution should be high on the list for scrutiny by the Department of Government Efficiency.
“The Senate Library sounds like a good place for the DOGE caucus to start if they can’t feature all sides of the political spectrum. I look forward to The Art of the Deal and Hillbilly Elegy getting top billing, highlighting the great work and life story of our President and Vice President of the United States,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) told The Post.
A library spokesman defended the book offerings.
“Many of the new books are checked out – the ones on the shelf are the books that have been not checked out. What is on display does not fully reflect the range of the collection,” a spokesman said adding that they had recently acquired “books by current nominees for executive branch positions.”
