Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.
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The process basically boils down to Dems offering as many amendments as we can to try and strike down the worst spending cuts. So far Republicans have blocked every single one. Will keep you updated.
Do everything you can to stop these criminals. Start reading Green Eggs and Ham on the floor. The Republicans suck at their job and their responsible for the downfall of America
I love the enthusiasm you bring and I'm proud you're one of my senators, but you gotta stop playing by their rules. They have no intention of keeping civil process so why should you?
Just offered an amendment that would block all cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and the ACA. Not a single one of you will be surprised to hear that Republicans blocked it.
Thank you for your efforts Senator Wyden. Please keep pushing back as hard as you can, in as many ways as possible. These threats to healthcare feel like the Republicans are personally targeting the health and wellbeing of American citizens. I don’t want a target on my back.
Having grown up in some less stable democracies, I keep wondering where the military is. I know it would set an iffy precedent. But it would stop this in its tracks.
Ugh. Cuts Medicare & Social Security that have the effect of making either fund insolvent should immediately allow us to transfer the full value of our SS/Medicare balances to our choice of retirement funds, as well as direct future withholding to that account.
They can’t buy me out w/ a $5K check.
Thank you! Madison, Jefferson, and Jay stand with you on promoting the general welfare of The People.
We the People say again that in order to form a more perfect Union we promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our Posterity (i.e. now and forevermore).
Thank you! This is what we’re asking for. Drag the process out as much as possible, make it as annoying as you can and stay unified in voting no on everything.
Except THEY aren't paying for it. WE are paying for it. THESE people don't pay for jack. We are their serfs. We pay AND we get abused by them. We pay for our own abuse.
The presidential image of the U.S.A. has fallen to this. What an embarrassment. Would God allow this into the house? ACTS 8:20, 1 TIMOTHY 6:10, MATTHEW 22:18-21. GOD vs Swastikar aka MAGA & Elon Tesla Starlink X & SpaceX! BOYCOTT! DUMP THE STOCK MOVEMENT! https://youtu.be/nkMVb0RNptA?si=vGQKNA2QerhFvWIp
MAGA and Musk want Ukraine and Mexico's natural resources for Tesla and Rockets! US using cartels as their scapegoat to invade Mexico! BOYCOTT SWASTIKAR AKA MAGA AND ELON, Tesla, Starlink, X, and SpaceX! https://youtu.be/5b2LqTSJ32A?si=QbfVO6jE4O7no5ey
Thank you for the hard work. Please add an amendment that requires them to each individually read Edward said’s orientalist out loud cover to cover on the senate floor.
Also many all nighters do you think you can get them to do?
Sounds performative to me, but please prove me wrong. You had to know Republicans would block it, so what was the plan for after that happened? What *actual* actions are you going to take that aren't just fecklessly rolling over and showing your belly in surrender?
Like I agree 9/10 wall to wall they're not doing what I'd do but Wyden and Merkley are doing more than most. I expect them to obstruct every proceeding. They are doing it. Take personal feedback face to face. They are two of the only senators to do it right here and now.
He tells his base they won’t make these cuts. They believe everything he says. He does the opposite and they don’t even realize they’ve being lied to. Gaslighting 101.
Keep fighting them, and keep sharing what is going on. We want to keep their constituents informed (if possible) about how this administration's cuts will impact their lives.
I call my pos Senator McCormick and they never respond. His office near me is a facade. These people are horrible and so are any staff that work for them. Ty for trying. Keep trying. NEver give up.
Been watching and it’s infuriating. Republicans are harming the people who voted for them. No surprise thought. Spineless.
Thank you for standing up for Americans, not billionaires.
Thank you for continuing to fight these assholes intent on dismantling everything good in this country. It blows my mind that republicans really want to take us back to the dark ages of tyranny and monarchy - did they forget what country this is??
He’s told you how they don’t have the votes to stop anything. He’s told you how honorable his is. These jackasses aren’t reevaluating leadership or changing tactics. Just wait and vote for me in x many years
So I’m a hard working business owner, and they want to take away the only place I can get healthcare that won’t almost completely eliminate my take-home pay?
My ACA lead plan is already a little pricy, but I can swing it, if I have to go private, I’m screwed.
Hey it's time to mobilize, I'm not talking about voters. It's time to remove fascists and the apathetic elites that are allowing the working class to bear the burden for the benefit of the minority. This is plain and simple class warfare and the working class has been gutted for almost 50 years.
Thank you for your efforts this exhausting nights. But call them what they are and take your pick: slaves to oligarchy, Trump fearing spineless jellyfish, duty abdicating cowards, misanthropic sociopaths or my favorite: fascist traitors. Show me where I'm wrong.
Thanks for keeping up the fight. Medicare and Medicaid are so infinitely important to take care of our loved ones I can’t fathom how this isn’t a top story of the day.
These are the same people who liked the state health insurance for all program when it was called Romneycare in MA; despised essentially the same federal program when it was nicknamed Obamacare, yet didn't grasp that O-care IS the ACA, which they like.
Hey when they start throwing grannies out of nursing homes...nursing home industry will scream, people will be screaming...so let's get over with already...they are going to do it...so let them find out...they will regret the vote...
Please ensure their supporters learn how they voted it down. Use visuals if possible. Showcase people who are losing access because of their chosen Rep.
Thank you, Senator. They have to be exposed to their voters. Someone has to call them out on Fox and whatever other bullshit news they watch. I doubt many MAGAs watch C-SPAN.
Why can't dems block them? Why is the system being abused like this? Why aren't Dems using the loopholes, too?
Why do I even have so many why's?
(Thank you for your work, btw)
Just in case we still have a Congress and elections in 2026, if the budget passes with cuts to Medicaid, Agriculture , Education, please Meidas blast this all day tomorrow and next week, that GOP, Elon and the orange king think this is a genius budget to give the rich tax cuts.
PLEASE don't let anything happen to ssi, Medicare, medicaid, & SNAP. I rely on all of this to survive. Any changes made to it & I'll be literally homeless. That also means I'd have to give up my emotional support pet. I live on $1680.00 a month. I can't even imagine having the money that musk has.
Make an amendment to refund $50,000 to every American as a result of the recent federal cuts and let them vote that down. People understand wages more than programs.
Would it help, though? Hundreds of former high-ranking officials - e.g. Mark Milley - gaved well-reasoned warnings before the election, but the result still was a win for T.
Even if people of this app know how dirty republicans are, him continuing to share it with us is good. They are doing their part (to an extent and selectively) it’s up to the people to spread and preach for change. That’s the only way to get rid of all this corruption
You can't govern this year but as your constituent I want Senate Ds to craft amendments that make Republican indifference to our happiness and safety crystal clear
Stop unanimous consent! STOP IT! Make them vote on every word in every amendment! Amend the amendments! They want to vote and go home. Don’t let them order Door Dash without a damn amendment! The GOP are evil. I don’t care how many happy hours you have had with them.
That would be out of order to extend debate on an amendment. The majority party makes the rules, and therefore the unanimous consent agreements, for the Senate.
If you turn on c-span right now, you will see roll call votes on amendments.
It can be used to delay a nomination 2 days, not a big deal for cabinet members and senior officials. It was disruptive for large groups of military personnel, forcing hundreds of promotions to be voted on as if they were a judge or HHS Secretary.
I think it's time to get state lawyers filling lawsuits on the behalf of every Oregonian affected by loss of ssi, hud, snap, farmer, employees and healthcare. Ur going to have alot of homeless starving people dying soon if something isn't done fast. It's time all 50 states unite and fight as 1 💙💙💙
When the final cuts come out, Every Dem needs to highlight the cuts and ask people, is this what you voted for? Is this what great looks like? How many people’s lives just got ruined - and they don’t care
Is there a numeric or time limit to how many amendments can be offered? Sen. Booker said “unlimited” earlier tonight, but then said Democrats would be proposing amendments until tomorrow morning. If it can be unlimited, why not keep it going for weeks? Maybe he misspoke…
Have you denied unanimous consent for everything? Done constant quorum calls? Taken your 30 hours for debate for EVERY GODDAMN THING? No, you haven't and you aren't. You fucking useless shits.
No, that's exactly right. It's all performative to them. Even when they took their 30 hours of debate to contest Vought's nomination, the cameras showed an empty Senate floor, which means they didn't do quorum calls, and Senate Republicans didn't even need to be on the floor. Entirely performative!
Your esteemed colleagues are are the grift train…, I know the Dems still believe in Senate collegiality…, but your “brothers” are wholesale getting the big $$$’s from the GQP grift train… .
Get on tv every day and tell the people. There are over 250 members, that's three before the midterm. Get out there and make sure vets know what they voted for, or all these maga Medicare recipients. They don't know this. Once they realize you'll be blamed. You know this right. Right
Democrats need to stop playing nice. Trump is stating a coup. You need to grind the Senate to a halt using every procedural trick in the book until the coup is stopped.
They played down & dirty when Biden & Obama were in office to get what they wanted. Dems need to do the same. There's no more decorum. There's no more nice guys. Ask them if they still want to fight for the constitution or they'd just rather do the dictator's bidding.
That's what happens when you go full puss.
The thing is you are actually weakening MY odds.
Democrats have shown NO strength! All the would be dem gun toters left, so when democracy REALLY DOES FAIL, It's gonna be me against a shipload of Trump crazies, great.
Can u ACT like you got balls??
This is like bringing a butter knife to a gun fight. Ugh... we need Democrats to be playing hard politics and messaging. On media outlets daily countering the MAGA propaganda. Stopping Musk
It's funny how they've always blocked everything, even when they were the minority. Why aren't you dems doing the same? Oh, and stop sending me fundraising emails. Start worrying about whether there will actually BE another election.
Ron:
-Raise endless points of order
-Request that each amendment be read in entirety into the record
-Live quorum calls while the Dems vacate the floor. Demand that the entire GOP be on the floor.
Your entire worthless caucus could grind the chamber's activity to a near standstill. DO IT.
I believe you are referring to the filibuster, specifically, and are correct on that specific tactic. I cannot locate a document about the current budget process that addresses clearly addresses live quorum calls, etc, and do not think you're correct about those.
Budget bills have a time limit for debate. Democrats can use that time for quorum calls or to force votes on a stream of amendments (they chose the latter). Either way, the budget gets a vote when time is up.
Thanks, Senator? Are you still on X? Elon Musk is threatening advertisers with the powers of the White House. He’s about to take in 44 billion from investors who are no doubt threatened or bribed. We really need for elected Dems to stop contributing to X.
hank you and please know this:
its the altered code in the voting machines tabulation software--Dems need to demand forensic investigation of the machines or ALL HAND COUNTED PAPER BALLOTS-
If not, Dems will lose the midterms and be Done.
Musk tampered with the Swing States elections2024
It's time to stop the business as usual bs.
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented actions. Just because something hasn't been done before, doesn't mean there isn't a path forward. Y'all just have choose to do it.
Keep going. Keep offering up every imaginable thing you would want to run against them on. Undoing everything Trump has done. Attempting to undo each firing. Doing right by the fired employees including a healthy severance pay package including health coverage.
Make them vote on a whole year of severance, then the original 8 months offered up via the fork in the road email. Make them vote on moving expenses for any probationary employee who moved to accept a new job. Get them on the record of all of it.
And throw ALL THE SAND in ALL THE GEARS. Quorum calls. 30 hours of debate. Objections to unanimous consent. Bring a good book and some snacks and make life suck in that chamber for a while. Have Bernie discuss the relative merits of Vermont maple syrup over his Granite State neighbors.
Just watching on C-SPAN2
Sen. Tammy Baldwin now speaking RE: amendment to prohibit legislation that would remove health care from seniors.
point of order being raised by Mike Crapo
Sen. Baldwin asking for the ayes and nays
During the vote C-SPAN shows split screen:
Yes resist…but damn it the Democratic Party needs to put out brief, cogent and unemotional talking points that can be understood by the MAGA lemmings and amplified. Speak in a loud, singular and consistent voice. And avoid policy wonkiness. Basic cause and effect of the Republican actions.
Mitch seems like he is sick of this shit and he has nothing to lose now…. Maybe ask him for some pointers on how the minority party can still block everything. He seems to be a subject matter expert.
Well when they slash Medicaid, and they will, perhaps this time around you can scream it from the mountain tops and every available news media outlet that the republicans own this. Make sure every American knows this fact, and maybe you could get back the house.
Hi! It is overwhelming and that’s the point. It’s meant to demoralize you. That’s why there are bots saying this. It’s a possibility but stating it as a certainty makes it way more likely b/c it primes people to accept it and give up. History is long! Find inspiration in the fighters of the past. :)
There have been elections in the United States since November! Including elections Democrats have won! And some of *those* were in areas that voted for Trump in November.
(Check out @the-downballot.com if you're curious.)
These are dark times but democracy is not dead. Folks are fighting for it.
When the GOP was the minority, even an imbecile like Tuberville was able to block actions for months. Can you guys do something other than "offer" ineffective amendments?
Thank you for trying to save democracy Senator. There's a LOT of us out here scared and begging for all the Dems to step up and be the light in a very dark time. Thank you❤️🩹💙🇺🇸💪🏼🏴☠️
Thank you for the updates. How can you put wrench in it? Can someone barf and clear out the space? Can someone flip a table with a key computer on it - OOPS!
May you lying gutless wonders rot in hell for supporting the evil 😈 of Donald Trump. Oligarchy do not care about anyone but themselves. The Narcist liar Trump only cares about himself and he is planning on stealing everything
Any one in DC? Any way we can quietly get in the chambers with signs - no real heckling, just a way to get them to notice the signs. All they have to say is - Just say NO for your child, parent, or grandparent. THINK!
Well, they've been wanting to do this for 60 years, little did they know all they needed was Donald Fucking Trump and a ketamine-addled South African billionaire.
Thank you for getting the information out. And for doing all that you can to stop the worst of it. All of this voting will be on record right? It will give Dems some ability to show voters who cut their Medicaid’s etc & what & how Dems can help if they are voted in at the next election cycle.
Awesome. Every morning we wake up to a new realm of hell we didn't know COULD exist. Things I hadn't thought would ever be possible in a 1st world country - yet here we are. Like a novel. @stephenking.bsky.social sounds like a basis for a great story. 💙📚
They're just going to steamroll through this - this will not stop without extreme action. The regime is ignoring the constitution, the law, and all orders and attempts to make them stop.
Well hope it all turns out for you but if you wind up with no health care (unless you re-mortgage your house) remember you voted for this. What, no house? Oh well remember you voted for this. I have to see my doctor today at no cost to me and get prescriptions at no cost to me. Sigh! FAFO 🇨🇦🍁
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO STOP THIS?! Stop talking about it and do something you feckless losers! You are RESPONSIBLE TO PROTECT LAW AND ORDER AND OUR CONSTITUTION! Grow a spine!
Use the Constitution and the LAW. I’m a paralegal for 16 years! I expect my government to UPHOLD THE RULE OF LAW AND THE CONSTITUTION TO WHICH ALL LAW IS BASED UPON. Otherwise we the people will revolt.
Poor republican voters will only understand these things when their families start to "experience" hunger. It will be (maybe) already too late for them.
Yeah, cause everyone else always follows the rules and procedures of how our government is made to run, even if it's frustrating as hell. The many lawsuits and judges freezing his EOs should clue you in.
Okay, I already said that some of what he's doing is illegal, but some of it's not.
But you're going to sit there and tell me that Biden left nothing on the table? He went all out for the working class and the vulnerable in this country?
That's not even close to the truth that you know it.
When did I say that? The problem right now is MAGA (not assuming who you voted for) believe everything he says and question nothing and that is frightening. No one gets it right 100% of the time & to praise a Pres for circumventing processes opens it for another who no one agrees with to do the same
Call your senators & congresspeople- US and state - and let them know you’re angry & disillusioned, and want the government promised to you by the Founding Fathers, and pretty much every American politician & judge until T47 MAGAman put Koolaid in the water, and amassed himself a cult.
If they cut medicaid I know 3 people who won't make it for too long.
One is typing this. One has epilepsy and autism and is a good human. One is a loved one in a care home.
This cannot stand in the US. I know a couple of Moms who are going to kick some ass.
You know what they call the parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts and uncles of the people with autism, epilepsy and elderly…. VOTERS! They are voters and every congressperson, every senator would do well to remember that!
GOP townhalls are already very angry about elon. It can be done with less if they are focused on the levers of power like Lithuania in 91 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Events
Single day protests fail, because they know the people are just social media flash mobs, who will go back to their feeds the next day. Instead, they need to feel tomorrow will be worse than today that will culminate soon in the Qaddafi Farewell. The 3.5% needs to be sustained over weeks.
Criminal Trump is not cutting government spending. He is redirecting to Elon Musk's businesses & Criminal Trump is getting a cut.
The Nation dept will be increasing & Criminal Trump will show smok & mirrors to fool people.
We need to keep track of Trump's looting.
The National Debt as of
today.
Use every freaking loop hole you can to screw them over. They do that crap all the time. It's time be be assholes like them fuck compromising, this is a war against Nazis.
Do you understand why? Do you understand their communist agenda? Do you know that congress soon will have not power? Do you understand and see that trump already is near to a totalitarian power grab and when that’s done, freedom is out??Do you know there is time to ask for hep to the armed forces?
Dems need to say no to all Republican budget bills including any and all CRs. Why should Dems allow the government to spend more money if supposedly it is wasting so much and people are getting fire? If Pugs want a budget let them vote one in.
Because the majority voted for Trump…..knowing full well he asked Pence to override the Constitution on Jan 6. KNOWING he doesn’t respect the Constitution. There is no buyer’s remorse, unless Republicans in Congress remove him…and they will not. That’s the way the founders set it up.
Where’s the democrats at? Why isn’t every single dem bombarding the media with this? Americans are loosing every protection every service under Trump & GOP.. Yet rarely hear anything from Dems. Do they give a shit?
WTF, you are on posting on a Democratic Senator’s thread. Are you not paying attention. We have to be united! Spend your energy attacking Republicans including those in your area.
Wherever you live in the nation, if you can get to DC, this is our opportunity to show up Powerfully United, and show the world we Reject this Felonious TRAITOR.
This is your Advance Notice
Start planning now
WE NEED A HUGE CROWD
March 4th - Washington, DC
U.S. Capitol- Noon
I recommend finding a place to stay near a metro station and taking the metro to the Capitol, as parking is a challenge. There are hotels in Virginia and Maryland on the metro line which will be less expensive than DC.
Sounds like a great opportunity for @democrats.org to show a public united front. Let me see what's planned *checking...checking.... I'm sure there's something... *checking...Schumer doing a tiktok... Hakeem selling a book... Ken Martin doing a PowerPoint....
Because they are nothing but a bunch of greedy POS that only care about enriching themselves. Many of them are wealthy enough and have dual citizenship to where they’ll just jump ship if the U.S. does collapse and they wouldn’t even be worse for wear. They live a whole different reality than us.
Conservatism could change with the voting public or create an entire alternate reality to scare their voters forever. They chose the latter, and it encouraged the least scrupulous people in the world to pursue Republican electoral politics. The least callow republicans became democrats.
All of us, really. Not just the Black and Brown people among us. Women don't matter either, or the disabled, or the poor. Everyone who isn't a rich white man.
Other than make you feel good for five minutes, this useless gesture would do nothing, and you’d be suggesting another one, or the go to, “do something!” Let’s try to resist in ways that are t just performative nonsense.
So I I have this right, they should stop doing their job, in front of the cameras, creating endless amendments to force the gop to vote them down in public, slowing the process down, and go chain themselves to the bathroom door so no one can pee while actually speeding up the GOP process?
obviously the whole amendment thing isn't meaningfully slowing things down or getting them any attention in the press, but chaining themselves to the FRONT DOOR of the institutions that Musk's little Hitler youths are ransacking might get some more people in the streets
If republicans are ever going to actually pay for the way they treat people, then my Trump-loving diabetic, Medicaid & Social Security dependent parents are gonna have to starve a little bit.
It’s the only way people with zero empathy for others ever learn anything. It has to hurt Them.
Your son and girlfriend aren’t the problem here. Yes we know everyone will suffer but the main point is we NEED MAGA to suffer in order to pull the wool over their eyes off. And it’s not like any of us are championing this-MAGA getting what they didn’t realize they voted for is our only solace
No one said I was ok with it…and I’m really not sure what you expect anyone to do right now. They hold all 3 houses. The only chance at reclaiming this will be the mid terms and that will depend entirely on MAGA realizing they were duped. They will realize that when the leopard eat their faces.
Lawsuits, protests, filling GOP mailboxes (voice and snail mail) with complaints, educating those that can be educated on what they’re doing, etc. We can wait for midterms. We won’t have a country by then.
Senator Wyden. Respectfully we need an opposition party in this moment right now. We need you to find one of your fellow senators to block things like Sen. McConnell. I don’t like the man at all but I respect the way they command all the attention, control the narrative and block all legislation
Every Democratic senator and Congressional needs to be doing tiktok explaining this you need to learn from Trump how to get a hold of people not everybody nowadays watches TV and their attention spans about as good as a 3 minute commercial
You don't need to post that on here you need to be running commercials on Fox TV letting all the people know because you know a lot of their supporters give these services what they're doing and put the phone numbers or contact information up for these senators and Congressional Republicans
What I want to know is what they’re getting out of it and what’s the end game? What do they do once they’ve finished pillaging? At what point will they be bored?
Dude, they're literally the Axis of Losers. The only thing they have in common. Nazis, Confederates, Nerds, Incels, rednecks, Russians ~ their all losers. Laugh at them, then get them out.
I don't think it matters what you're negotiating. Trump is going to decide where the money goes. It will go to his loyalist after they beg. He's rendered the house and senate useless with Elon dismantling everything. The confirmations were just a distraction and you all got had. He is lawless.
Senator, as long as nothing is being done about rigging of the voter systems, we can vote blue until we are blue in the face and they are going to win. What are you doing to make sure votes are not tampered with in the upcoming elections?
Thank you for your work and communicating what is happening. Please work with your colleagues to stop the destruction of Medicaid. Slow it down / stop their regressive agenda.
Why do average Americans have to pay more for groceries and face cuts and get fired? Wouldn't it be easier to manage the budget if billionaires paid their fair share in taxes? Instead we get screwed once again. Why did you decide to join politics and run for office?
Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"
That’s why there’s a conversation about mass withheld taxes from paychecks and keep it all for ourselves. Federal won’t go after all of us because of… cutting down the cost and personnel.
Yep.. Think ppl will continue to spend when tariffs raise costs & jobs start going? Anyone hear those farmers that put food on Americans tables? It’s ignorance for any American to not pay attention to the threat voters put in the WH.
My autistic granddaughter just lost her childcare thanks to these idiots. She was blossoming so well there and now her mother will not be able to work, will have to stay home. My granddaughter’s development will be stunted. I’m enraged!
Nearly all. Hardly anyone has anything left to pay for nursing care by the time they need it. A few months of nursing home care will wipe out a nest egg.
People need to understand that cutting Medicare will also force doctors and clinics out of business. Their payment rate is already so low that many will not be able to bear more uncertainty. And especially clinics with high risk patients like cancer, cardio, etc.
The only thing that made medicare rates tolerable was their predictability. They are...were...the bread & butter that kept the lights on because practices didn't need a staff of collection agents fighting for legitimate payment of services as they need for corporate 'healthcare'.
Weird how when the GOP has the majority they get things done with zero resistance but when the Democrats have control one GOP senator could kill a vote….
I’m saying that for all the hemming and hauling Murkowski and Collins do, the consistently fall in line. Manchin/Sinema gave DNC numbers but were frequent dissenters. So the majority never got to go far and in only one chamber
It's beneficial to the Dems to be 'powerless.' Most of them are Manchins, Sinemas, and Kennedy Jrs but it's helpful to act like they're not. So there's always a fluid number that can switch sides to block bills that benefit the people.
There was a time when compromises could be had, but as disappointing as the party can be, it still moved left. The problem came when the GOP moved a lot more overtly right and they didn’t calibrate. It’s the biggest reason Biden was close to bottom of the list for me in 2020
Didn’t say it was good or ideal. It’s who got past primaries, and it was either accept their win towards majority and at least get speaker rights or just give up seats to the extreme right. We also see a lot of corrupt people ejected by the DNC and become ultra MAGA (eg Gabbard, RFK jr)
i think whipping is possible & good and if there were a legit risk of going too far and pushing them out of the party it wdv been for the best cuz they were nvr trustworthy to begin w and dems wdv had a believable excuse they cd campaign on (no senate majority)
Incumbents keep seats and it advertises the image of not being extreme (a problem for sure of tone policing from the right the last two decades). Plus the voters they expected to sway most were in the middle, that would actually vote in the great game of Hungry Hungry Hippos.
The Republican party is aiding and abetting an actual criminal conspiracy to install oligarchy. "Doge" employees are willfully committing crimes in concert to destroy the government's ability to respond to this coup. Stay vigilant.
Good thing that Hakeem is on a book tour and I’m sure Schumer is at home getting ready to tweet out something totally ridiculous before the night is done
I too find the book tour egregious in the moment, and I have been and will continue to be very critical of Chuck. But to be accurate if nothing else - Schumer was there in the Senate with Wyden & co. voting on amendments past midnight to slow R's (yes, still need more). https://rollcall.com/2025/02/20/senators-get-ready-for-overnight-budget-vote-a-rama/
Senator, this graphic illustrates how tax cuts for the wealthy trigger increased business failures. I hope this perspective is a helpful tool as you battle Republican efforts to gift the wealthy with tax cuts.
I knew when traitors were left in office back in 2021, that one day the Dem leaders would have NO power, since all Rep leaders would fall in line with the traitors. Shame on you, Sen Wyden, for remaining silent during Biden Admin; you could have out cried the traitors had to be expelled & jailed.
Still no arrest for Democrats! Don't sit and wait for us to do ur jobs. Risk something, stop something, stand in , sit in , stop something. Stop saying the public has to do it. If that's so WTF we need with u?
That’s what I’m afraid of. I hate the Republican majority, but DOGE could claim their wages are too expensive, and take away the peoples representatives…leaving us with a dictator and his false “president”
So far doge has showed zero interest in any new programs, just slicing programs.
This is effectively bringing back the line item veto from the 90s, but the regent (Musk) is doing it and counting on the SC not having the stones to say no.
You forgot they indiscriminate and lacking any knowledge of the repercussions as evidenced by cutting staff responsible for Nuclear Weapons or Bird Flu virus mitigation. Nothing dangerous in this approach Right?
Yeah, not only is it illegal, it's dumb as hell and not being done with any sort of rigor and will take years to fix, if the nation doesn't balkanize in the next 4 years.
I am one of your constituents, Senator Wyden. Many of our family members, friends and neighbors will be irreprerably harmed by these cuts. Many have already been harmed. Keep Fighting, Sir!
While I understand the feeling behind this sentiment, as someone who works in the medical field in a blue state, I have no desire to see people here or elsewhere needlessly suffer, no matter who they voted for, but especially those who can't vote (e.g. children) or who voted against him.
Normal procedural stuff isn't going to stop what's happening. You need to prevent a quorum and then spend your time physically stopping Musk. Arrest, detainment, getting your own ppl to block his access to systems. The old days are gone. SAVE US.
The "people" did not vote for most of current events. What's happening is illegal and should be stopped by any means necessary. That's not a coup, that's preventing a coup.
I hope it includes money for hungry children! Or education funding for the less fortunate! Or maybe, treatment for cancer patients? Oh, none of those things are legitimate? Well, shit.
Salem Oregon resident here. I'm begging you do everything the republican did in the last 2 administrations to stop this. Talk to the house leadership and tell them to do the same. Shut it all down.
Deny the lies everyday in everyday.
Defend the Constitution.
Depose elon and trump.
They don't care, never going to get enough Republican support to impeach. They're all terrified of what he'll do to those that vote for it if the attempt failed. A full on gangster government is in charge of the US now, similar to Hitlers lot, that's a fact whether they like the comparison or not.
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hold the line—
stop what you can
Thank you for letting us know.
We appreciate you keeping us informed.🙏
Keep fighting in every way that you can.
Problem is almost no one reading this can do that.
They can’t buy me out w/ a $5K check.
Thank you Senator 🙏
We the People say again that in order to form a more perfect Union we promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our Posterity (i.e. now and forevermore).
Thought there was still a chance at that point. The road is being plowed of hope.
https://youtu.be/nkMVb0RNptA?si=vGQKNA2QerhFvWIp
https://youtu.be/5b2LqTSJ32A?si=QbfVO6jE4O7no5ey
Also many all nighters do you think you can get them to do?
And that money doesn’t actually come from tax payers
Yes he did, and he lied, again.
We appreciate you.
💙🇺🇸💙
Thank you for standing up for Americans, not billionaires.
My ACA lead plan is already a little pricy, but I can swing it, if I have to go private, I’m screwed.
Upset a billionaire, who takes $8mil a day from the government, gleeful guts cancer research, food for hungry kids, and Veteran benefits?
Try the old switcheroo!
Why do I even have so many why's?
(Thank you for your work, btw)
That may just be the match
And please keep doing whatever you can to let Americans know what these villains are doing & why it matters.
The court of public opinion is just as important as the law courts here.
They have now posted a ledger of savings by contract. Grand Total = 7B. Grand Total Claimed = 55B. Why difference? Ask Tom Krause.
Meanwhile Trump gives 2000B to the rich, guts Medicaid
#DOGE #ElonMusk
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You can't govern this year but as your constituent I want Senate Ds to craft amendments that make Republican indifference to our happiness and safety crystal clear
Let the parliamentarian decide
Glad Van Hollen is talking about Medicaid
I didn't hear the number affected
72 million !
Do Republicans care if we live or die?
You can state amendments that fit within the budget framework and also alert voters to the stakes
Was confused by C-SPAN 2 split screen
Thank you.
(It’s a very good idea for an amendment, too)
If you turn on c-span right now, you will see roll call votes on amendments.
https://www.c-span.org/event/us-senate/us-senate/431073
Forget about norms & being conventional!
Concentrate on being CLEVER & EFFECTIVE!!
USA, you are under SIEGE & your ENEMY'S headquarters is the White House.
They are WAGING WAR on you, on your country & your people, & it's fkn HIGH TIME that you
WAGE WAR on them in return🤬‼️
What are our chances that we won't end up slaves in a feudal state? Are we just Soylent Green at this point?
Is that even possible or did Schumer, in his infinite idiocy, change the rules for that?
How's that whole playing nice thing working out so far?
💙
That is the only thing that can stop the republicans now: their intense fear of work.
Which one will hit billionaire status 1st…?
My money is on Thune… .
$50…?
Any takers…?
Every minute you slow them down is a minute less they have.
I imagine they vote en mass!!
Your job, right now, is to protect us.
Do that job.
Obstruct any and all proceedings. Grind them to a halt.
You’re a gear in that machine; stop working with it and change its direction.
The thing is you are actually weakening MY odds.
Democrats have shown NO strength! All the would be dem gun toters left, so when democracy REALLY DOES FAIL, It's gonna be me against a shipload of Trump crazies, great.
Can u ACT like you got balls??
Keep obstructing
NO UC for anything
-Raise endless points of order
-Request that each amendment be read in entirety into the record
-Live quorum calls while the Dems vacate the floor. Demand that the entire GOP be on the floor.
Your entire worthless caucus could grind the chamber's activity to a near standstill. DO IT.
Be a hero, Senator. Go be brave and stop the GOP.
The closest I can find is this, which implies the opposite.
https://democrats-budget.house.gov/resources/fact-sheet/budget-reconciliation-explainer
No quarter for traitors and insurrectionists
Shamed to say I live in America with these assholes.
its the altered code in the voting machines tabulation software--Dems need to demand forensic investigation of the machines or ALL HAND COUNTED PAPER BALLOTS-
If not, Dems will lose the midterms and be Done.
Musk tampered with the Swing States elections2024
break rules and make them deal with that!
you can do it!
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented actions. Just because something hasn't been done before, doesn't mean there isn't a path forward. Y'all just have choose to do it.
Be a jerk about it. These trolls aren't being nice to you, they're sneering at you and they hold your decorum in contempt.
But in a larger sense Republicans moved to waive our customary liberties and freedoms
Do not back down!
Take note of all they do and call them out.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin now speaking RE: amendment to prohibit legislation that would remove health care from seniors.
point of order being raised by Mike Crapo
Sen. Baldwin asking for the ayes and nays
During the vote C-SPAN shows split screen:
2025 Budget Markup
recorded on 2/12/25
The top screen shows Live
U.S. SENATE VOTE
Amendment to Fiscal Year 2025
Budget Resolution
Protest outside.
Stop tap dancing.
Don't legitimize the process of our dismantling!
Please!!
(Check out @the-downballot.com if you're curious.)
These are dark times but democracy is not dead. Folks are fighting for it.
Democrat?
Follow @gregpalast.bsky.social
CALL A REELECTION!!
We can’t allow this (all of it) to happen. He does not have a mandate.
We had more not vote than either candidate… we have to fix it all.
And strengthen the democracy ✌🏽🔥😊💙
.
It’s gonna have to be loud
I will die without Medicaid
I live on small fixed income
I need to take 3 medications daily or I will die
No Medicaid, no doctor, no prescriptions
#Ammendments
Fight these fuckers.
The mainstream media is failing us.
Please connect with as many small, independent journalists and publishers you can to get information out of the bubble
Follow the money. Always.
we will serve wealth.
We all know that you're standing around holding the Republicans' jackets while they do what you could never do, but have always wanted to.
What percentage? It certainly won't be 0%
Some of his actions will be deemed to be legal.
And Democrats could have been doing that for the last 4 years.
But they don't, because they're feckless
Consolidating power under him, unconstitutional.
Democrats actually tried to work with the other side, we are being run by EOs even though Trump said Pres who lead thru EOs are weak.
But you're going to sit there and tell me that Biden left nothing on the table? He went all out for the working class and the vulnerable in this country?
That's not even close to the truth that you know it.
One is typing this. One has epilepsy and autism and is a good human. One is a loved one in a care home.
This cannot stand in the US. I know a couple of Moms who are going to kick some ass.
The Nation dept will be increasing & Criminal Trump will show smok & mirrors to fool people.
We need to keep track of Trump's looting.
The National Debt as of
today.
https://myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2025/02/murder-publicans-left-behind-is-lie-v.html
Your oppression is their profession.
You seem to be in the same position.
parade of bootlicking
When was the last time some hungry child wrote a large check to one of your colleagues’ re-election campaigns?
According to the Supremes, money is a protected form of free speech and it gets heard.
Musk gets a megaphone, most of us are muted.
His actions against the media have them scared too.
This is your Advance Notice
Start planning now
WE NEED A HUGE CROWD
March 4th - Washington, DC
U.S. Capitol- Noon
Ah, here it is: #WeAreFucked
It’s the only way people with zero empathy for others ever learn anything. It has to hurt Them.
But I think we’re already seeing a percentage of Trump voters express their regret. And there’s likely more than just what we see from TikTok.
Tuberville held up confirmations for almost a year, why the hell have all the Trump arsonists gone through?!?!
-same question! Why the hell isn't more being done and why is it mostly women that have to do it!
I wanted to watch them do it, out of respect for her.
Don’t they know? Don’t they feel any consequences??
Do they put pressure on corporations, do they pressure their senators, do they demonstrate, do they….?
(What CAN they do?)
What are the Democrats options?
What do you plan to do?
Will you go on the airwaves?
Will you learn how to talk to all the people?
Street language is very effective these days.
Trump used it in all his rallies. He dropped f-bombs all over & the crowd ate it up.
Disgusting.
If not, WHY not?
Instead of our government that creates our currency and banks that create loans
Our government creates our currency we use to shop, pay our banks back, pay tax & buy treasury bonds
A fact FDR was aware of since he’s the one who took us off the gold standard for domestic settlements
Not nice. But Democrats and their donors must apply this logic to focus efforts and flip the votes they can.
When
https://rollcall.com/2025/02/20/senators-get-ready-for-overnight-budget-vote-a-rama/
If the reps aren’t doing the work, they will be gone.
Maybe don’t totally bitch so quick.
Call them. Troll them.
This is effectively bringing back the line item veto from the 90s, but the regent (Musk) is doing it and counting on the SC not having the stones to say no.
People need to learn that elections have consequences and voting matters.
If I agree with you, the pain will be the same so let us see how bad the gutting will be.
I would not be surprised if red states get exempt
...Right...?
Are they really in the red?
c’mon Americans are we gonna fall for this too?
Wake up. !! Wake up people !!
Deny the lies everyday in everyday.
Defend the Constitution.
Depose elon and trump.