This new Trump tax will drive up costs for Americans, period. Trump came to office promising to lower costs, but his actions are going to raise prices for groceries, appliances, and building materials.
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These are the dems that voted to confirm the guy that just handed the Treasury to Musk:
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Hickenlooper
Kaine
Kelly
King (Independent)
Peters
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Oh well? The US gave Trump the country. For all of the praises and brilliance of our founding fathers, they didn’t anticipate a coup with the majority in Congress helping? Like, that was a simple scenario. But, hey, at least Garland didn’t do anything to make his investigation look “political”.
You were the speaker at my college graduation in 2008, during the Brick City years. For so long you inspired me, but you are a LIAR. You have betrayed yourself, your message, and most importantly, your constituents. You should be ashamed.
Honestly this is not as big a problem as letting Musk commandeer the purse of the American people! You voted to confirm the guy that gave him the keys to our personal info and funds! What are you and your fellow enablers going to do about this freakin fiasco?! This is the biggest heist in history
If I were Xi, I would not give in to tariffs unless I had to. High prices will surely finish Trump and the GOP long before they cripple China. I would also consider large changes that could decrease vulnerability.
The United States might be making an historic error.
Have voted Dem my whole adult life; you don’t understand how angry your own voters are at Dem leadership (lack thereof). My future vote must be earned given failure after failure to stop what is now coming. What you’re doing is totally inadequate ie your votes & pathetic social media “strategy”.
Is my gramma going to get her Social Security check this month? Am I going to be able to keep my Medicaid? Is my son going to be able to get his ADHD meds next month? You're my Senator, these are the things you should be protecting me from having to worry about.
I would like to see a much more aggressive and united stand by Dems on everything that is currently happening. Press releases and social media posts aren’t going to cut it. Don’t give Trump nominees a single Dem vote. Do literally anything to take a stand. There are no more “norms”.
Please, please, please talk about something other than just costs. You’re overreading & way oversimplifying the results of one election. The literal survival of the United States is precarious; freaking act like it & use your power & position to do something about it. What are you all smoking!!!???
I had such high hopes for you Cory. You voted to confirm the Treasury Secretary. Complicit in this newest attack on our government. Wtf are you going to do about this?
Hi Cory, remember who convinced you that you understand social media? Initials SR? remember how she turned out to be an abusive, deeply mentally ill person? maybe you do not understand social media and should take the offer from the Wendy's twitter person to help y'all before you lose us the country
24% of the lumber America consumes comes from Canada. Dah! Is there an American alive that can convince Marmalade Man that his 25% tariff on Canadian lumber won't increase building material costs to AMERICANS? Good luck. Ya'll been played for fools.
you are a traitor
you pretend to care and you turn around and vote for Trump nominees
You voted yes to Bessent who now gave full access to musk , a non elected civilian to go after 6 T $ of government money
fuck you and your party
@corybooker.com - where are all of you?!?!?! Why are you all allowing this crazy shit to happen! Musk needs arrested and has zero reason to be going into the agencies and messing with their computers.
you're the one who voted for bessent. what a stab to our hearts. you think you're telling us something new here? just let us know what YOU are going to do about it. grow some integrity.
Mr. Booker, please fight like hell to do something about this intrusion into our personal information. And please stand with the Democrats and not vote for any more of the horrendous nominations. Many of us are looking for an explanation.I have a lot of respect for you.Don't know what happened here.
Senator, We need you to do more than post on BlueSky about the idiotic tariffs. Why does Elon Musk have my Social Security Number and what is my senator doing about it?
You must take accountability for what's going on with the Department of the Treasury. This is a crisis situation. This is a coup. The security, privacy, and safety of our country and its citizens is under attack.
@corybooker.com why do you deserve any votes Dems couldn't keep a convicted felon from running again. It's clear you all are playing by one set of rules and the rest of us are just fucked. Prove me wrong. Do better
@corybooker.com you got almost 300 comments here from voters asking you to explain why you are voting in Trump's appointments that are literally handing the keys over to Elon musk. Democrats asked us to vote for Biden. Vote blue all the way down the ticket. What did it get us?
We get it, prices are going up. If the questions from your colleagues are not "why does an unelected, unappointed, completely conflicted, oligarch have more access to our data than a Russian hacker farm," you are missing the mark. Mayor Booker would have never tolerated this. He was Superman.
Everyone is aware. We don’t need our elected representatives to repost mainstream media articles (anyone following you will see them), but to *do* something!
The beauty of this is, that it will also drive up costs for his supporters, and hopefully they will turn on him. I choose to think happy thoughts about this.
@corybooker.com you might need to actually take some action here, Elon Musk is running amok in our federal offices tweeting that no one else is there. Are ANY of you going to speak up today?????
Really dude? Voting to give control of the treasury to an oligarch? Get bend never voting dem again until AOC or somebody left of her is in charge. Don’t care how odious the other team is. Don’t think I won’t vote third party.
Nader got my vote in 2000 cause he was the only one with the balls to call oligarchs then. History seems to have proven him right and that you jerks gaslit is into believing this was our fault. When clearly you and the rest of the dems have bought and paid for. Enjoy hell!
What are you doing about the Musk situation? You voted to confirm the person who gave him access to the most sensitive information concerning the American people. YOU did this. Now do your job and fix it.
Agree 💯. A private citizen has no right to that information. He and the criminal who handed it over should’ve been jailed immediately. I’m sick to death of statements. Fucking do something.
@corybooker.com IMPEACH Trump now!!! Have Musk deported. They are a danger to us Americans. Y'all must do something. It's your responsibility as our elected officials. 💙💙
The MAGA Morons voted for him to lower prices. I've battled with people and all they talk about was how hard they are struggling financially, and "they can't take the Biden administration anymore", so they voted for Trumpy and got a TWENTY FIVE PERCENT INCREASE IN PRICES. Good work, idiots!!!
Senator asshat, mind if I call ypu that?
A lot of people want answers to why the hell you and other dems are voting for trump pics.
Either answer or fucking resign.
We know what's happening, we're waiting for you to do something instead of vote for trumps people then act outraged afterwards
If you vote to confirm RFK you will lose my vote when you are up for reelection. We need qualified candidates, not people who create chaos and profit from it.
You should show your disapproval by voting NO to every appointee. Sorry you haven't done that so far, just hope you realize that what he promises and what he does are two different things - you should know he lies. And so do his appointees. Vote No please.
And who is really surprised by this? Maybe one day those fools that voted for a convicted felon who had a bad presidency run before will come to realize what they have done to that beautiful country. I feel sad for everyone that tried to save the USA and tried to keep the democracy alive.
Maybe just stop copitulating and do your job. Stop confirming Trump's people for fuck sake. You can't sit here and sound the alarm like you're not part of the problem.
Stop confirming Trump appointments! Bessent handed an unelected, not appointed & approved by Congress tech oligarch access to SS, Medicare, grant, contract payments & other sensitive info, ffs!! W/o proper background checks, clearance, & accountability. This is an unconstitutional--FIGHT, ffs!!!!
Cory you are complicit. What the fk are you doing approving these terrible guys???
Our information is not safe. You helped this happen. SHAME ON YOU. I gave you $$ voted for you, and you are shitting on democracy.
I'm glad to see you calling it a TRUMP TAX. Now, get a camera crew & get over to the treasury & demand WHY MUSK has the authority to mine & your data!!!
@corybooker.com Why are you not responding to any of these posts/comments? They're all asking two simple questions: 1) Why did you vote to approve Bessent, and 2) What are you doing to stop him, DOGE, and all the illegal actions of this new Trump regime?
Sen. Booker with all due respect and as one of your constituents, why are you continuing to vote Nazi's and Oligarchs into cabinet and leadership positions? We have a right to know.
It looks traitorous from down here!
And it's willful or not so willful blindness to all evidence that paints the Trump as he is. Corrupt and will turn before our eyes to resemble the Picture of Dorian Gray.
Yes, and today's price-increasing Trump tariff-taxes are just the latest of his many betrayals of ordinary folks.
They come on the heels of Trump corruptly turning over Americans' private data to Musk, recklessly gutting the aviation safety group, and freezing job-creating infrastructure projects.
Mr. Booker, with Musk going for the most valuable and most private data of US citizens you are one step short of civil war,where civil war is horrible, but the *better* option than surrender to tyranny.
I think we all know that he told us he was going to do it. What I’d like to know is, what are you all doing to protect my sensitive information from Musk Et al?
CoryBooker, Dear Senator, thank you for your active updates. When are the democrats going to take action? Please assure us that someone is working on a plan. A century of progress has been dismantled in a week. We are scared. We are counting on our lawmakers for leadership.
You just voted yes on the nomination for Scott Dissent for Treasury. You just handed the purse strings to Elon Musk, an unelected official who doesn't have the best interest for the American people. You screwed us!!! Why????
And he told everyone what he’d do prior to the election.Tens of millions of Americans are terribly stupid, and tens of millions more are just plain terrible.
Then why did you vote yes to confirm Nazi Musk's and the felon's Treasury pick? Don't tell me how bad it is when you helped enable it! Hypocrisy at its finest and why this country is being destroyed.
Taxes are the least of our worries right now! You voted for the asshole who just gave Elon Musk carte blanche to our social security data!!! You need to ask him what the F is going on!! 🤬
I came here to write the same question as so many others - why did you vote to confirm Bessent? I always thought so highly of you and your ideals. It would be so great if you could address this for your supporters.
Can’t wait for you and the 15 other democrats to defend your vote that essentially handed the keys and the cash of the kingdom to a ketamine fueled billionaire.
Thanks, Cory. Anyways - a foreign billionaire now has full access to the treasury’s payment system and database. Think you might do something about that or just going to keep levying platitudes on social media?
Yes, it will. But I don't care about that. I care that Elon and his cronies have access. to millions of Americans' sensitive information. Do something about that, please.
A very simple question in response to your past several posts: as my representative, when will you stop observing, and start doing something in response?
You fucking voted to confirm Bessent you fucking asshole. You helped cause this. Fuck you and your entire party. Democrats don’t represent Americans anymore. Either fix yourselves or resign immediately and let actual people who care do something. Both NJ senators are failing to meet the moment
A reminder that Democrat votes for Trump’s picks will be remembered. And not fondly. You have betrayed the safety and security of this country rather than mounting an opposition.
So, Elon & Donald have a tariff plan. We consumers will pay for the tariffs via higher retail prices. The tariff money we pay will be collected by the new External Revenue Service, from which it will find its way into Elon and Donald's pockets. It is the biggest grift of all time.
Oh gee Cory. Who’d a thunk this would happen? No wonder Ds are useless. U had months & months to prepare 4 this. So maybe posts aren’t the response disgusted Dems r looking from from u and Congress.
Cory I think the world of you! Can you and your colleagues please please please stand by to this 🤡 he is ruining our country… please use your power.. yell & scream now is not the time to play nice in the sandbox
@schiff.senate.gov @alexpadilla4ca.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social
As someone who voted for you, I ask what you are going to do to stop Trump's roll through the offices of government? Please, stop voting to confirm Trump's nominees, oppose him at every turn. Use the Rs playlist against them.
Plz for Americas sake, submit articles of impeachment. Asshat handed Musky the keys to the treasury. There is no way that is legal. None. He doesn’t even have a clearance rating for that.
Stop sitting on your back heels.
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Thanks Dumpty.
Booker cares fuck not about us. He just sold us up the shit creek without a paddle.
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Hickenlooper
Kaine
Kelly
King (Independent)
Peters
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
explain why you confirmed this man. is it because you have no spine?
https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3lh5ejpwncc23
Why are you handing over the Treasury to musk?!!
I will leave this right here for you and your colleagues ..
@jerrieskid.bsky.social
If I were Xi, I would not give in to tariffs unless I had to. High prices will surely finish Trump and the GOP long before they cripple China. I would also consider large changes that could decrease vulnerability.
The United States might be making an historic error.
NOW y’all want to talk about the price of groceries?!
Elon Musk, is at the helm of a coup against the United States. Focus on that!
Remember how Republicans blocked Obama for 8 years? DO THAT!
Also, not sure if your social media team is aware, but there's a coup happening right now while y'all negotiated the weekend off.
GET HIM OUT.
Stop capitulating
Stop voting for MFs like Bessent
Provide some resistance instead of seeking out every TV spot you can
Can’t believe I actually thought this dude was someone special…I was wrong
Terrible news.
https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.bsky.social/post/3lh5w44exm22y
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/01/27/us/politics/bessent-senate-confirmation-vote.html
you pretend to care and you turn around and vote for Trump nominees
You voted yes to Bessent who now gave full access to musk , a non elected civilian to go after 6 T $ of government money
fuck you and your party
We need YOU to STAND UP and DO SOMETHING!!!!
Get rid of him, New Jersey.
A lot of people want answers to why the hell you and other dems are voting for trump pics.
Either answer or fucking resign.
We know what's happening, we're waiting for you to do something instead of vote for trumps people then act outraged afterwards
I am ashamed to have voted for you right now.
Our information is not safe. You helped this happen. SHAME ON YOU. I gave you $$ voted for you, and you are shitting on democracy.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musk-doge-treasury-access-federal-payments.html
Why did you vote to confirm trumps secretary that just handed the keys to our country over to an unelected maniac oligarch???
Act!
It looks traitorous from down here!
All the money in the world isn’t worth the death that’s coming. What, really, have you stuffed in your treasonous pockets? Couple hundred K?
You voted to confirm the head of the treasury. You guys are supposed to be obstructing at every turn.
This is not business as usual.
I will never vote for Maga, but the way you guys are going I’m not gonna be voting for Democrats either.
They come on the heels of Trump corruptly turning over Americans' private data to Musk, recklessly gutting the aviation safety group, and freezing job-creating infrastructure projects.
Man up and get going. Now
You're a fucking snake, go to hell
NOPE
Registered Democrats can still vote in primaries.
Oppose all Trump nominees, deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings, vote NO on all cloture, and force quorum calls at every chance!
Organize + fight back! Start SOME PROCEEDINGS anything. It's nearly too late!
@schiff.senate.gov @alexpadilla4ca.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social
Fucking sellout.
You confirmed his appointees; the call is coming from inside of the house, you fascist enabler.
Stop sitting on your back heels.
Lean into the tyrant.