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SHUTTING DOWN RURAL HOSPITALS—that's the Republican agenda. If their Big, Ugly, Betrayal of a bill passes, rural hospitals across America will be forced to shutter. This will hit Central & Eastern Washington the hardest. We can kill this bill, but NOW is the time to speak up.

submitted 4 hours ago • 18 comments

Politicians should not be able to interfere in health care decisions that belong between doctors, patients, and their families. The fight for trans rights doesn't end at the Supreme Court. We carry it forward in Congress, in state capitols, and in our communities.

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

Of course I oppose the trans care ban, just as I oppose the entire bill. I assume this question was shouted as I was walking between meetings. I had not seen the language but let me be clear: I support stripping out as much from the bill as Democrats can, including this ban.

submitted 10 hours ago • 35 comments

Most people aren't tracking this, but the Big Ugly bill would effectively ban marketplace insurers from covering abortion care in ALL 50 states. We can't let this stand. Please help spread the word. Republicans are jamming this bill through—we have to speak up NOW.

submitted 11 hours ago • 72 comments

We now know that the GOP's Big Ugly bill would allow for the sale of 250 MILLION acres of public land. 5.4 million in Washington state. We can't let them jam this through in secret. Help me say it loud and clear for Republicans: Public lands belong in public hands.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

There's not a day that ends in Y where Republicans aren’t trying to ban abortion in Congress. This time, they want to effectively ban ACA insurers from covering abortion care, AND they want to defund & shutter Planned Parenthood clinics. We need to speak up NOW to stop this bill.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Republicans are trying to cut Medicaid while they jam through massive tax giveaways for giant corporations & billionaires. But if there's money for military parades, there's money for Medicaid. Every Senator should vote NO on this Big, Ugly, Betrayal of a bill.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

This is a disgraceful and heinous comment, beneath the dignity of a United States Senator. Completely unhinged, abhorrent, and divorced from reality. I’ve called on Senator Lee to take down these posts apologize publicly at minimum.

submitted 2 days ago • 75 comments

Under Trump's new rules, veterans can be refused care by individual doctors just because they are unmarried, are registered Democrats, or identify as LGBTQ. VA is for ALL veterans, not just whoever Trump says. Every Senator needs to demand that this policy be reversed.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Pete Hegseth tried to tell me there was "no litmus test" to hire anyone at DoD. Not true. Why does a WELDER need to share with the federal government what their favorite Trump Executive Order is as part of their job application? Drop the politics. Hire the best. That simple.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

There are no kings in America. We need to remind ourselves that our voices are important. That we do need to stand up and say what we believe in. That's how we change the direction of this country. That's what democracy is.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

On the 250th anniversary of the Army, today should be about the men and women who serve. Instead, Trump is putting tanks on the street at massive cost to the American taxpayer. And of course, he's fundraising off it while referring to it as HIS parade. Disgraceful.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Stunned and horrified at this news. This is wrong . Political violence can never be tolerated in America—it’s a direct assault on democracy. My thoughts today are with the victims and their loved ones in Minnesota. We need swift justice & full accountability.

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

Voting for the GOP's Big, Ugly, Betrayal of a bill is voting to kick seniors out of nursing homes. It is voting to shut down rural hospitals. It is voting to take coverage away from kids with disabilities. Keep up the pressure to make sure a majority of Senators vote NO.

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

Here’s former ABC reporter Terry Moran’s first post on Substack. Thank you, Terry, for being unafraid to lift up your voice. This is bigger than politics as usual. When a President is handcuffing Senators, threatening the free press, and so much more—we all have to speak up for our democracy.

submitted 5 days ago • 66 comments

I visited a food bank in Seattle today to hear from people who rely on SNAP & Medicaid. I’ll be sharing their stories everywhere I can—but let me just say it’s just WRONG that Republicans want to cut health care & nutrition to give tax breaks to billionaires who don’t need them. Keep speaking out.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

There's a lot happening right now, but this week, Republicans unveiled some new changes in their Big, Ugly, Betrayal of a bill and snuck in a provision that would allow them to SELL OFF OUR PUBLIC LANDS. No way. Our public lands are NOT for sale. Help me spread the word.

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

Israel’s decision to attack Iran is a dangerous & unprecedented escalation, which endangers American servicemembers and civilians in the region, and puts countless other innocent lives at risk. I urge the Trump administration to deescalate the situation. My full statement.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone. If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

submitted 6 days ago • 812 comments

House Republicans just voted to cut off public radio broadcasts, defund your local PBS station, and rip away lifesaving aid and bipartisan investments to advance U.S. interests around the world. I'll be doing everything I can to defeat this bill as it comes to the Senate.

submitted 6 days ago • 52 comments

Senators are ELECTED to be a VOICE for their constituents. What happens when that voice is stifled, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed like Senator Padilla was? We have a democracy, but we can lose that democracy. I took to the Senate floor to speak out—I hope you'll join me.

submitted 6 days ago • 316 comments

Trump's HUD Secretary is asking to cut funding for housing by nearly HALF. It's absurd to claim we can't afford basic programs to keep people off the streets, but we can afford TRILLIONS in tax cuts for billionaires & giant corporations. I'm tossing Trump's budget in the trash.

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

Vandalism & violence are exactly what Trump is looking for as an excuse to push the boundaries of his authority. I agree with the Governor and our local leaders here: violence is never acceptable. Exercise your right to protest but remain peaceful. Violence achieves nothing.

submitted 6 days ago • 44 comments

Here's what I told Pete Hegseth: his leadership has been chaotic & incompetent. He has failed to take any responsibility for his egregious mistakes (leaking war plans over signal). His fixation on culture war nonsense is leaving our military less ready. And his budget is late.

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

I just voted to block the sale of arms to the UAE & Qatar. America should NOT sell weapons to the UAE & Qatar to thank them for gifting Trump a brand new jet or buying into his crypto schemes. But Republicans opposed our resolution. The corruption they are enabling at this point is frankly absurd.

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

Well at least there wasn't a measles outbreak during all this chaos or anything.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Trump threatening "heavy force" against peaceful protestors who oppose his Beijing-style military parade? Deploying the Marines & National Guard to police the American people? I made clear to Pete Hegseth and my colleagues: all of this is unconstitutional & downright un-American.

submitted 7 days ago • 60 comments

Repost if you think we shouldn’t -kick families off their health care, -push seniors out of nursing homes, -force children to go hungry, -and blow up the national debt... ...to pass massive tax giveaways for huge corporations & multi-billionaires who are doing just fine.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Trump's NIH Director is asking for an $18 BILLION cut to NIH. He refused to say how many fewer clinical trials would be funded as a result. That’s because he knows these cuts mean fewer clinical trials & fewer cures. Trump's budget is going NOWHERE as far as I'm concerned.

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

Trump's NIH Director couldn't tell me how many clinical trials had been impacted by grants he’s frozen, terminated, or delayed. So I told him—he cancelled clinical trials to: -Develop an HIV vaccine, -Treat type II diabetes -Help cure recurrent ovarian cancer. This is what's happening RIGHT NOW.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Maybe Trump's been spending too much time baking in the sun out on his golf courses. But someone should probably let him know this is America, not North Korea. Americans have every right to peacefully protest his birthday parade. Every right.

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

My message to Trump’s NIH Director? No one in America wants us to do LESS cancer research. No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease. Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

Trump doesn't want you to know this, but he's currently trying to ram through a Big, Ugly Betrayal of a bill that will kick 16 million Americans off their health care. All just to cut taxes for billionaires and giant corporations who don't need it. Every Senator should vote NO.

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

Sending Marines to face off against citizens on U.S. soil is fundamentally un-American, a MASSIVE waste of taxpayer dollars, and an insult to our servicemembers. A dangerous and needless escalation by a wannabe dictator. Everyone must speak out against this abuse of power.

submitted 9 days ago • 84 comments

An outspoken vaccine conspiracy theorist just fired every last member of CDC's vaccine advisory committee. RFK Jr. is paving the way to reshape vaccine policy based not on decades of science, but on his own unhinged fanaticism. This is unprecedented, and unthinkably dangerous.

submitted 9 days ago • 148 comments

Violence is never acceptable—of course, I condemn it. But I've also got news for everyone: the President who pardoned criminals who beat police officers nearly to death DOESN'T care about public safety. Trump just wants more chaos as pretext to further abuse his authority.

submitted 9 days ago • 36 comments

Here's what Trump's tax bill is all about: the LARGEST cut to Medicaid in history, just to cut taxes for billionaires who really don't need it. Hospitals closing. Higher premiums for everyone. We've got to make sure everyone knows about this bill NOW if we want to stop it.

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

Thank you @zerotothree.bsky.social for delivering a "message in a baby bottle" to stand up for our littlest kids. This former preschool teacher is throwing Trump's budget in the trash. I'm fighting for a budget that protects Head Start & builds on our investments to make child care more affordable.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

House Republicans passed the single largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in the HISTORY of our country. The GOP tax bill would deliver the largest cut to Medicaid and SNAP EVER. Repost and help me put a burning, bright spotlight on this awful disaster of a bill.

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

You know, when I first got into politics, men would always tell me that WOMEN were too emotional to lead. 🧐

submitted 13 days ago • 48 comments

There is NO reason 16 MILLION Americans should lose their health care to give tax cuts to billionaires and giant corporations who don't need them. None. Every Senator should vote to kill this Big, Ugly Betrayal of a bill.

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

Good to meet with @mealsonwheelsus.bsky.social CEO Ellie Hollander. I've always fought to boost funding for Meals On Wheels, and I always will. I'll be ripping up Trump's budget and doing everything I can to protect Meals On Wheels. Seniors shouldn't go hungry in America. No one should.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

In the Pacific Northwest, salmon aren't just fish—they're a way of life, and foundational to our economy & culture. Trump's budget wants to completely ELIMINATE the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund. I'm tearing up Trump's budget, and won't vote for ANY bill that eliminates this funding.

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Got asked on an AMA tonight: “can you talk about why SNAP is so important?” So I shared my personal experience. 7 kids in our family and food stamps kept us fed when my dad got sick, lost his job, and mom had to look for work. SNAP is an investment in people. I won't support ANY cuts to SNAP.

submitted 14 days ago • 26 comments

Sit down and shut up? No thanks. A Seattle Times columnist recently wrote a piece about me, implying that it's futile to call out the corrupt power grab that’s happening in DC. But that's exactly what Trump wants: to create a sense of apathy that silences critics. Not a chance. Read my response.

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

I passed the bipartisan Digital Equity Act into law. Trump doesn't like the word equity, so now he's blocking BILLIONS in funding to help kids in rural school districts get laptops. I told Commerce Secretary Lutnick to save taxpayers the legal fees, follow the LAW, and get this money out the door.

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

Billionaires and the largest corporations? They’re doing FINE. They don’t need a handout at the expense of struggling families. But Republicans want to kick kids off their health care to shower the richest companies on earth with more tax cuts. No way. We need to put this heist on full blast.

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

Trump is required by LAW to get $220 million for childhood literacy programs out the door to benefit students. Secretary McMahon couldn't even provide a basic timeline to do so. Trump's illegally impounding YOUR taxpayer dollars—meant to help kids learn to read—to cut taxes for billionaires.

submitted 15 days ago • 33 comments

President Trump is now asking Republicans in Congress to rubberstamp Elon's DOGE cuts and codify them into law. Every Senator should vote NO and reject Trump’s request to cut off local news broadcasts and weaken our national security. My full statement ⬇️

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

Trump just quietly erased guidance that told hospitals they had to save pregnant women's lives. That's right—they don't care how many women die or are forced into health crises to advance their anti-abortion agenda. I won’t let this fly under the radar.

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments