Trump wants to cut more than a billion dollars from the FBI and ATF, eviscerating the agencies that investigate terrorist threats, cybercrimes, and get illegal guns off the streets.
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Trump is also asking for 1 trillion increase in national security funding. To what end? To implement his police state executive orders he signed on the 28th of last month. That should worry us all. https://youtu.be/lcbyZATsmGk
No decisions in this administration make sense. Make America Gone seems to be the real MAGA mantra. In addition to this and RFKs annihilation of the best disease monitoring and research anywhere, Americans are toast.
The Iron Curtain fell because up to 6% of the entire population of Eastern Bloc nations were on the streets, over weeks & months.
So I guess I'll not worry too much about less federal law enforcement until this regime falls. The rule of law no longer applies, and these agencies are out of control.
Enough ! This BS needs to be stopped. What can we do ? I’ll sign up for anything to help save our democracy for my grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Why is no one demanding stopping paying settlements to insurrectionists, millions to mara-lago for weekly golf, military charade of 92 million and on and on and ………
You just have to wonder how much of Russia is playing into this. So far it’s Trump destroying America from the inside. It just seems all his moves are really weakening America. In my own opinion he has been compromised. By Russia or? The people are the last guardrail left. We can’t fall! RESIST NOW.
The premise that tax cuts for billionaires is the reason for the full out assault seems more like a cover/distraction to me. The big winner by crippling our economy, legitimate law enforcement (not ICE), financial system, military and CDC will be Putin if the trade war escalates.
Well done Perkins Coie. Thank you for standing up to the bully in Chief.
Regrettably, Paul Weiss, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Washington Post, Columbia University, the Supreme Court, Susan Collins, ABC News, and so many others lack your courage and principles.
Cory why in the absolute fuck are you voting in support of any single Trump nominee? Like, nobody gives a single fuck about some excuse of “well, this guy isn’t ideal, but he could be worse and maybe we can work with him”
Maybe one of your colleagues can borrow velshi 2025 book with notes and take control again of the podium showing how the highly unpopular book is playing out!!! STAND UP!!
Republicans don’t care. They just want to make Trump happy. They may moan about these cuts but they will vote for it in the end. And they will get re-elected. We have no power to stop them.
Trump is turning the country into a police state in preparation for the fall of the country—stealing from the Federal Government every day.Who is strong enough to stand up to him—he keeps egging everyone on.
Cory, you have just erased the good will and momentum you earned during your filibuster! Why in the hell would you vote for ANYTHING the Republicans put forward, like Purdue for Ambassador! SHAME!
@schumer.senate.gov last time you voted GOP - shaking in your shoes b/c a government shut down might be blamed on you - I hope you realize the fall-out AGAINST you for that cowardly action is nothing compared to the demands for your impeachment if you fail again -let them shut down it's their fault
What are you doing about it? Oh-right NOTHING @schumer.senate.gov NO funding bill can pass UNLESS it includes Kid's Free LUNCHES, if not also BREAKFASTS; $$ for school literacy programs; funding for libraries, museums, parks, NPR & PBS & Medicaid, Medicare & Social Security are safe. DO YOUR JOBS.
This is a lawless administration led by a convicted felon and traitor who sought to overthrow the Constitution on January 6th. He continues working towards that end!!
@booker.senate.gov @chrislhayes.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Did you see this horrific crime? Senate and House need to shout the injustice
I’m sure there is some waste in EVERY Dept. BUT the biggest waste is in the White House right now!! All the planning that thoughtfully went into USAID, Headstart, just to name a few were ever do much needed & we respect HUGE benefits overall from them-but nooo let’s just willy nilly cut programs!!
Please have your staff find trump voters who are going to lose their jobs from these cuts so we can at least laugh at them if nothing else is going to be done about it.
Right now, I don't think these agencies need more money to do what they are doing -- grabbing innocent and vulnerable migrants off the streets and sending them without due process to a foreign gulag to rot away. You Senators have got to get this right!
Alcoholics Anonymous was started by right wing nazi sympathizers disguised as conservative evangelical Lutheran Christian’s . Research Buchmanism - buchman , the Oxford group , The MRA , moral-rearmament.
And you go extreme left you have godless commies and gulags or work reeducation camps . pretty much the same thing . It’s always the rich that get away when it goes to shit .
I'm not talking to Jacob.... He didn't keep up on the news and still invested in fascism against his family. Somebody take that house in Princeton from him and the Morgan, the triumph and the Norton. I've got room in my garage and my driveway. Give them to me.
But what are you doing about it? Are you bringing criminal allegations against DJT or the other GOP members? Are you being ProActive or just Reactive and stating the obvious?? We all know DJT is a 🍆... don't just Parrot out the ..
Here’s what I don’t understand. I know the dems are in the minority, however, how is this allowed to continue? He’s crossing the lines of the other branches. You have oversight of the $$, so how is it that his mini-me can walk in, gain access, and fire people?
Is there a plan for a playbook aka p2025 such as project 2027 and 2029? I’ll give the repugnant repubs this much-they created a roadmap and hit the ground running-is there a counterpart for the left?!
So disappointed in you and @kim.senate.gov - words are only words yet your actions speak otherwise. David Perdue? Really? An election denier who threatens our democracy along with giving assistance to this administration?
As a NJ resident, you’ve lost me.
Why did you vote to confirm David Purdue? Why did you even bother with a 25 hour filibuster if you were going to vote Yes on any of the Trump agenda? You fucking prick.
Senator Booker. I truly admire you and what you say, but the American people want and need action. I don't feel that we are safe and our rights are being wiped out. All these town hall meeting, ralleys and marches. Economic blackouts make us all feel we are contributing to our cause.
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No one has said what can be done to get him out of office and answer for the crimes he has committed? We are being fed word salad by all of you, but what are all of you willing to do to take a stand to the corruption? These talks to the American people of this country need to take place and soon.
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We cannot endure another 3+ years of this or we will have a literal war within this country. I'm sick of hearing every single day about another horrendous thing that he has done. If I wanted that I would live in Russia, but America is not Russia is it? We need action and not more words.
Yes, which is Homeland Security Investigations, based on the terrorizing of the woman and her children in Oklahoma City. Much easier for Trump to shape HSI into his personal gestapo. Local police and the FBI have decades of loyalty to their organizations, not to the president.
Why would anyone rally around a party that is not spending every month in their home states interviewing + posting on Democracy Channel what the impacts of MAGA are with a national narrative to oppose?
Is should now be against international law for anyone anywhere to say - the US is the greatest nation on earth. You have all let him gut your country. Protests, filibusters & court cases have done absolutely nothing in the scheme of things. There is lots of talk but no actual action.
Funny “Defund the Police” was a huge albatross around AOC’s neck. The GOP attacked her incessantly on this phrase. Perhaps we need to make the #defundthepolice stick to Trump like glue.
Cory, you have just erased the good will and momentum you earned during your filibuster! Why in the hell would you vote for ANYTHING the Republicans put forward, like Purdue for Ambassador! SHAME!
I guess we will have to wait 1 1/2 years until the midterms to do something about this rogue Republican administration. Then we can vote harder and re-elect the People that are telling us 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♂️they don’t have the power to do anything.
Just for information, this is the video of a right wing politician in France (not a far right... a regular conservative a bit old fashioned...) I let you imagine what a liberal or a democrat is thinking... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIG72_mPO8A&t=451s ... I m so sorry for you guys... I wish you the best.
The party who says they're the party of " law and order " defunds the police and then pardon's criminals who beat police with bats and metal poles on january 6.
They don't care about law and order They care about
Tax cuts and pissing off libs.
Unfortunately, when you vote to confirm another trump nominee, your 25 hour speech and anything you post is diminished. If you want to cause good trouble, you need to keep causing it. SMH
I believe another aim of these cuts is to bring about the "need" for martial law so Trump can remain president longer. We need to find a way to get rid of his administration ASAP. Just my opinion...
I think no one is paying attention to him defunding law agencies that don't, or shouldn't, report directly to him. Increasing the military budget, an org that DOES report directly to the president.
Again, you govern the funding. The funds have been allocated. How IS he able to cut what congress has already allocated for already? I don’t understand.
The president of the United States doesn’t have line item veto powers. Yet he is reallocating money directed by Congress to other purposes. Cutting programs approved by Congress and signed into law. I am not sure we will still have a country left to save by voting harder in the midterm.
I would presume he cuts down the official executive police to make life unsafe and instable, and once something happens, he blames the police and sets up his own #Gestapo.
Hey asshole! Why are you still voting to confirm Trump's cabinet picks? So your little fillibuster stunt was just that. A stunt to boost your ego. Bitch bye
But it’s not just tax cuts for billionaires, really. And he doesn’t want to be the Pope, really. He wants to wear a crown, and have everyone kiss his ass. So he’ll privatize or eliminate every sector of governmental oversight that could possibly get in his way. Writing is on the wall people.
About the only thing I possibly agree with him on with corrupt Bondi running the DOJ. Under her, combined with 4.30.25 executive order, any buildup of these agencies is just police state enhancement.
He’s just going to privately bankroll black op “law enforcement”
“We’re going to save you from drug dealers and terrorists“ and we’re going to decimate the very agencies that are trying to do that. What an empty-headed, dementia-addled, blithering hypocrite.
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So I guess I'll not worry too much about less federal law enforcement until this regime falls. The rule of law no longer applies, and these agencies are out of control.
Regrettably, Paul Weiss, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Washington Post, Columbia University, the Supreme Court, Susan Collins, ABC News, and so many others lack your courage and principles.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/politics/trump-law-firms.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=6BA6B9F8-065E-470E-AF4A-81AEB06A6812
Seriously GTFO with that bullshit.
STOP SUPPORTING FASCISM
Impeach.Convict.
Remove.Imprison
You need to find four or six Republicans that have the potential of finding their spine and ending this shit!
Did you see this horrific crime? Senate and House need to shout the injustice
https://www.threads.com/@citizensforethics/post/DJMvObJuWju?xmt=AQGzq-Fvpo3pxZKtKSUFRdgFz46XwM1BIbugX_WQaMFnkw
If trump is breathing he is Lying.
Not a single Republican has an ounce of loyalty to the Constitution. None of them. Anywhere.
IMPEACH REMOVE
AND CHARGE HIM
It's to save his ass
As a NJ resident, you’ve lost me.
I think we got played hard by dinos...
FIGHT BACK! Resist in advance! We will support you if you do!
When is Congress going to stop this selfish lying lunatic??
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Trump is defunding the police to help pay for a tax cut for billionaires.
What are Dems counter narrative?
Why would anyone rally around a party that is not spending every month in their home states interviewing + posting on Democracy Channel what the impacts of MAGA are with a national narrative to oppose?
He’s an emotionally wounded simpleton surrounded by schemers.
When (not if), law enforcement shows up at demonstrations with batons and shields, we must chant as one, repeating this over and over.
Something Like.
"Trump's Defunding YOU!"
"Why are you cutting your own throat defending TRUMP?"
only better worded.
They don't care about law and order They care about
Tax cuts and pissing off libs.
But is wants to spend millions on a parade.
He’s just going to privately bankroll black op “law enforcement”