BREAKING: Today, @kim.senate.gov and I are introducing the Protect Veteran Jobs Act that would reinstate the thousands of Veterans fired in Trump and Elon Musk’s mass layoffs. The message of our bill is simple: Give our heroes their jobs back. - ThreadSky

duckworth.senate.gov • 3 days ago

BREAKING: Today, @kim.senate.gov and I are introducing the Protect Veteran Jobs Act that would reinstate the thousands of Veterans fired in Trump and Elon Musk’s mass layoffs.

The message of our bill is simple: Give our heroes their jobs back.

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rrrvvvwww.bsky.social•3 days ago

Excuse me, Senator. Am an IL-5 constituent. Can you please clarify your position on the GOP CR, and why you are not working against them to remove Elon Musk from our government?!?! NOW!!!

chimara4.bsky.social•2 days ago

🙏🇺🇸💙

arcticwolverine.bsky.social•3 days ago

That's great and I assume this means you also won't be supporting any CR or budget that Republicans want to push through, right?

dramadebs.bsky.social•3 days ago

Senator Duckworth-I don’t see your statement on a CR vote. What say you?

jake-66.bsky.social•3 days ago

As a veteran I have a question in two parts: why are you saving Republicans from themselves in support of a group who votes overwhelmingly against you? Your self-righteousness is your downfall.

boombutton.bsky.social•3 days ago

Aside from it being the right thing to do, helping people is often a way to earn their votes - especially when you are helping to solve a problem that your opponent(s) caused.

jake-66.bsky.social•3 days ago

And Dems have been doing considerably more for veterans than Republicans forever. It’s not even remotely close. Yet they still overwhelmingly vote Republican.

jake-66.bsky.social•3 days ago

That might’ve been true 20 years ago or when the party doing the helping was capable of marketing that fact. Aside from that, what gets people to change their vote is feeling the pain of the policies instituted by the people they voted for. Politics matters if we haven’t noticed yet.

barl2.bsky.social•3 days ago

Great Act from 2 of my favorite Senators!

jimpharo.bsky.social•3 days ago

Such a huge fan of yours and admire that you and Sen. Kim are Doing Something(tm).

Could you also introduce legislation saying that random firings of federal workers is - and always has been -- illegal.

sparkleyraindrops.bsky.social•3 days ago

Check this out. https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/court-filings/state-of-maryland-et-al-v-united-states-department-of-agriculture-et-al-complaint-2025.pdf

jimpharo.bsky.social•3 days ago

I would hope our elected leaders would be more vocal than a lawsuit of uncertain outcome. Litigation is fine, but elected Dems need to do a LOT more.

sparkleyraindrops.bsky.social•3 days ago

I echo you 100%!

lordbyronbunch.bsky.social•3 days ago

With all due respect, Senator Duckworth: What about the 10s of thousands of non-veteran victims of the fascist purge? Are they not worthy of your righteous anger?