Sen Lisa Murkowski: The Constitution gives Congress the power to assess and levy tariffs. Congress needs to reassert its authority as the Constitution prescribes.
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She'll be disappeared, long before the current Congress do anything to stop Agent Orange...
Why, you ask?
1. She's a woman
2. She disagrees with Dear Leader
In all fairness, Lisa in particular has actually voted with Dems on a number of the highly public, critical bills since Trump was inaugurated, and has made strong statements about it publicly. Even Susan has voted against Trump several times, but she still tries to split the baby as always.
The House gave up their authority to challenge Trump on tariffs. They said they would vote after 15 calendar days.
Then, the House GOP passed a rule saying that the rest of 2025 only counts as "one single calendar day." So the 15-day window will never hit because we're trapped in one long day.
I do agree that Congress must take back the power to assess and levy tariffs. However, the damage has already been done, and it will take many, many years to rebuild the trust that has been lost.
Step it up Lisa. You've had ample time to understand how this plays out. Time for you and your fellow Republicans to clean up the mess you helped to create.
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Nothing she says matters because she never says/does anything at the right time. She’s that republican who votes against something nasty or stays home when she knows there are already enough votes with or without her.
It's the legislature's job to make laws, too. Someday, I hope the House and the Senate will resume making laws, applying tariffs if necessary, and running state business.
We need 20 Republican senators and 76 Republican congresspeople for veto proof result, right? Or is this simple majorities? Then I think it's 4 of each.
If put to a vote, the Rs and some D traitors would support P2025 & its current talking head. There are hints of the tariffs in P2025. It's not Trump, and yes, it was planned. P2025 pinned on my page.
It's time for Collins and Murkowski to change party affiliation and become independants. MAGA is not the Republican party of law and order or fiscal responsibility. The Republicans are a dead party. If they don't take a stand they will certainly lose the next election if there is one.
Until the next election, we’re all stuck with the reps that have been voted into office. If we’re going to call them out for the shitty things they do we also have to praise them when they do the right thing, otherwise they never will.
Good grief. I've been watching all this from the UK for years. Why has Murkowski always buried her head in the sand? Her voting record shows who she is.
It was a good speech. I read all the hate she is getting from her constituents in Alaska. They are disgusting and entitled. I also noticed that most of the hate is coming from outside instigators.
I've been reading the Hawley-Smoot debates (yes, originally that's what it was called; why it changed is my white whale), and what Murkowski & others are saying now, opponents said then about presidents adjusting tariffs on their own. As it's now 95 years later, it's tough to be hopeful...
... the will will ever appear, especially as Dems were on notice it needed fixing when they took over in 2021, but they did nothing (on that and other unbalanced matters on which they would have had a good shot at getting 60 Senate votes).
They need to curb the exercise of power. I don't know why there is outrage now, though. The Senate greenlit a lot of unqualified people. What did they expect? And the people greenlit the biggest idiot of the lot.
Rep. Murkowski: Please take this opportunity for you and a few others in your caucus to make a stand for democracy. It will take more than speeches, though.
You're actually gonna have to work w Dems to make this happen.
@warren.senate.gov and @booker.senate.gov Looks like Lisa Murkowski is blinking for help. You might ask her if she needs to be rescued from the maws of F47.
If the senator for Alaska wouldn't say she wasn't going to vote for something and then she did vote for something when it came right down to it I would believe or have respect for her but, she's a Trumper she lies and she does what she needs to to please her master. Don't trust her.
Hmmph! She wants to talk NOW? She and Susie have been hiding in the corner, wringing their hands with concern. Term and age limits, along with cognitive tests are in order--IF we ever get our country back.
Lisa is simply Susan Collins w/o the concerned look on her face. Both rarely cast the right vote unless the battle is already won by Republicans and they have been given permission to go of the reservation.
Don’t put any faith in either to do them right thing when it actuality counts.
I’m a liberal Democrat from Arizona. The man knew how to work a deal, and I agree - I didn’t always agree with his politics, but I believe he acted with integrity. To have Kyrsten Sinema sit in his seat and (I guess?) think she was a maverick was an insult.
Yeah, what the hell was up with her? Seemed like a kind of reflexive "Bipartisanship" Where instead of being based on some kind of shared values it was just I'll piss off my own party some of the time to show off.
Let's remember that the English Civil War, the execution of Charles I and the dictatorship of Cromwell were all caused by Charles I abusing his power of taxation. For the Founding Fathers, this was contemporary history! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_money
IMO the Senate has been remote working for a couple of decades. Sure, they show up in the well to dip into publicity but they ceded power to the presidency long ago. Their backsides lie on sofa cushions stuffed with "greatest deliberative body" feathers. Excuses of the body by the body for the body.
Just wish Senator Murkowski had listened to the voices urging her not to vote for the Trump supreme court nominees. We told you what they would do, senator. And please convey our thoughts to the senior senator from Maine as well.
This implies that she abandoned her authority in the first place. Why did Congress do that and how are they going to wrest it away from the executive branch now? It feels like this may be too late.
She’s eating her humble pie, but that isn’t going to be enough. She’s now going to have to pay her pound of flesh with the rest of them. They chose this path, and now must walk it to the end. They were all warned those who travel this path cannot return yet she followed along with so many others.
I don't think the tariffs matter all that much anymore. Most of world is moving on. Seems nobody wants to do business with liars and cheaters. We are looking for reliable and trustworthy partners now.
She is saying this after she should have said it. Pretty sure the Medicaid cuts in the package they just released also had a poison pill in it making it impossible for congress to stop the tariffs. Electing people like this is what caused this and she is absolutely just as complicit as any other Rep
Great, Murks. This was the photo you went with? You third-personed what something else "needs"? That's passive voice, sister.
Stop pretending like you're playing Monopoly against a banker sneaking 5's, and instead get why they wanted to be the wheelbarrow, with the top hat on it.
No Senator Lisa Murkowski, when the fascists fall and are all executed for their crimes.
We the people are still going to come for you.
This peformative nonsense to give yourself faux coverage for your complicity, we see right through it.
You are a traitor Republican. You will be held accountable.
She’s my favorite “centrist” because she was chased out of the party before they went full fasc and just keeps siding with them despite evidence she doesn’t need to.
Just think, a Republican senator who is basically saying that it is their responsibility to protect their constituents from an out of control President.
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Tell HER you support this action and press her to do more.
Also, if you are Alaskan, press her to schedule an in-person town hall in your town over the upcoming break.
Me: Ya think?
Why, you ask?
1. She's a woman
2. She disagrees with Dear Leader
End of her career...
Then, the House GOP passed a rule saying that the rest of 2025 only counts as "one single calendar day." So the 15-day window will never hit because we're trapped in one long day.
Before F-Elon finds you a nice manufacturing job.
Oh well. It's like she almost has a soul.
That is the real universal truth of our capitalist democracy.
Serve the wealthy, lie to the working class.
The Republican congress?
The Republican congress who owe their positions to Trump?
That congress?
And I'm reasonably certain that Murkowski is a member of congress. Why tell us about this? Just do it.
But I won't hold my breath.
Congress needs to immediately reclaim their Constitutional authority from the executive branch! 🇺🇸
Republican members of Congress, you know what you need to do…step up, take authority back, and end the madness now.
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@warren.senate.gov and @booker.senate.gov Looks like Lisa Murkowski is blinking for help. You might ask her if she needs to be rescued from the maws of F47.
The New American Regime is moving fast.
DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it.
#Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them.
Pam Bondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it.
Don’t put any faith in either to do them right thing when it actuality counts.
Maybe the SCROTUS will actually read the Constitution!
Her current party is corrupt.
This is why I scoff when people suggest that Congress would step in and stop whatever - such as the annexation of a NATO ally's territories.
Stop pretending like you're playing Monopoly against a banker sneaking 5's, and instead get why they wanted to be the wheelbarrow, with the top hat on it.
"I am often times very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real"
This from Republican Lisa Murkowski.
Senator - how do you think average Americans feel? What are YOU going to do about it?
@5calls
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We the people are still going to come for you.
This peformative nonsense to give yourself faux coverage for your complicity, we see right through it.
You are a traitor Republican. You will be held accountable.
An out of control Republican president.
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As long as her opinion sits on the 53 side, she's less than useless to everyone, including herself.