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Republicans told us they wanted to vote on their Big Ugly bill promptly at 4pm ET. We’re here. But it seems they’re not ready to go. I guess they’re still working on buying the votes they need to cut Medicaid, close hospitals, and kick seniors out of nursing homes.

submitted 12 hours ago • 49 comments

Republicans chose to release the text of their Big Ugly bill late last night. They’re trying to pass the largest cuts to health care in history late on a Saturday. So Democrats are forcing the entirety of the bill to be read on the Senate floor. We won’t let them hide.

submitted 13 hours ago • 57 comments

Trump does not have the power to drag the U.S. into a war with Iran over the objections of Congress and the American people. I voted for Senator Kaine's War Powers Resolution tonight to send a clear message: NO war with Iran.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

I hope you’ll listen to Sarah share how Medicaid has saved her son Paul's life. Like Sarah says, the benefits of Medicaid are more than health care or home care—they have helped Paul live a full life. Please help share Paul's story. NO cuts to Medicaid.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

The MB billboard is officially up! 🎉 You can find it downtown on the rooftop of the Big Dipper, at the corner of Washington Street and 2nd Avenue. Let’s talk about the location and why it matters…

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Listen to the doctors: When patients go uninsured, they delay care, and it increases costs for everyone. Instead of paying $10 for diabetic medication, we'll pay $10,000 for an amputation. Help share so that everyone understands and speaks out AGAINST this Big Ugly Bill.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

In addition to kicking millions of Americans off their health insurance, cutting taxes for the wealthy, and adding trillions to the deficit, other parts of Trump’s Budget are also harmful and unpopular. We need to make sure more people learn about them.

submitted 2 days ago • 103 comments

Of course newrepublic.com/post/197149/...

submitted 2 days ago • 1058 comments

Russ Vought is already illegally withholding hundreds of billions in federal funding from our communities. Now, he's refusing to rule out cutting off even more funding with a new, illegal end run around Congress. He's ignoring common sense & the plain text of the law.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

I pressed Trump's CDC nominee on how NONE of RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisory committee appointees have been properly vetted, and I raised how RFK Jr. is pushing dangerous disinformation & policies already undermining access to vaccines. We have to keep pushing until science & sanity are restored.

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

Russ Vought, Trump's budget chief, came before @senateapprops.bsky.social today to ask Congress to codify DOGE cuts. Here's what I had to say: Congress needs to REJECT these cuts and reassert its power of the purse. To my colleagues: join me in defending the authority of Congress.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

RFK Jr. fired all of the experts at CDC's vaccine advisory committee. He installed 8 unvetted people, including anti-vaxxers who should have ZERO role in deciding which vaccines insurance should cover. The committee's next meeting must be postponed.

submitted 4 days ago • 99 comments

When someone's local hospital closes, they won't "get over it." When someone's nursing home closes, they won't "get over it." When someone's kid is kicked off health care, they won't "get over it." America, let these Republicans know you will NOT "get over" cuts to Medicaid.

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

Democrats stripped out the Republican provision in Trump's Big Ugly bill that would've put more than 250 MILLION acres of public lands up for auction. This is a victory, but STAY VIGILANT. Republicans aren't giving up—keep speaking out so public lands remain in public hands.

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

It does not get any more backwards than Republicans pushing rural hospitals to closure through partisan health care cuts... to then try to keep those hospitals open by creating a new fund to counteract their own policies. There's a simpler solution. Vote NO on the entire bill.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Here's a map of all the public lands in Washington state that Republicans want to put up for sale by passing their Big Ugly bill.  Make sure everyone sees this & send the message that public lands belong in public hands.  Check out the map yourself: outdooralliance.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant...

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

Trump's' Big Ugly bill will: -Kick 16 million people off their health care -Force hospitals to shutter -Push seniors out of nursing homes -Increase health care costs for everyone.  Why? To cut taxes for billionaires. Republicans need to know the country is paying attention.

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

President Trump just denied a bipartisan appeal for disaster aid to Washington state—supported by EVERY member of our congressional delegation. Do Republicans want a future Democratic President denying their constituents disaster aid over politics?

submitted 8 days ago • 40 comments

As Americans celebrate Juneteenth, I want to say: Trump can try to erase whatever history he doesn't like, and he can try to brand "diversity" as something bad. But he won't succeed. We'll remember ALL of our history and affirm that diversity is our strength here in America.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Not good if you support the TRump Party or the big ugly bill: www.yahoo.com/news/bad-new...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 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 11 days ago • 15 comments

Remember who you voted for.

submitted 12 days ago • 1447 comments

What I want to hear from ay Democrat is, everyone knows the system is RIGGED for Republicans. The question is what are you going to do to change this? What is your plan? Anyone???

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents. When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:

submitted 14 days ago • 493 comments

Horrifying news out of Minnesota this morning as political violence takes the lives of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. @Chasten and I are holding their loved ones in our hearts and praying for State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette as they recover.

submitted 14 days ago • 536 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 14 days ago • 44 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 16 days ago • 807 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 16 days ago • 315 comments

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

submitted 16 days ago • 2261 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 16 days ago • 25 comments

The resemblance is spot on.

submitted 17 days ago • 107 comments

An important message.

submitted 17 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 18 days ago • 12 comments