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Donald Trump promised to let Elon Musk self-police his conflicts of interest. The result? Those investigating his companies have been fired. Cases against his companies have been dismissed. The corrupt self-dealing is staggering.

submitted 6 hours ago • 267 comments

The world is watching Donald Trump abandon Ukraine and our European allies to curry favor with the Kremlin. All of us — Democrats, Republicans, elected officials and ordinary citizens — must push back with every tool we have if we are to save our own democracy and others.

submitted 8 hours ago • 157 comments

Sen. Padilla and I will be supporting Governor Newsom’s request for federal aid to recover and rebuild from the Eaton and Palisades fires. To deny it – or place conditions on it – would be to abandon people in their time of most need. People need help. We must act urgently.

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

Donald Trump just fired a well-respected General who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And his Administration announced they’re replacing other officers, too. The purge of people of stature and independence goes on.

submitted 1 day ago • 280 comments

It's been a crazy week – and Donald Trump is trying to silence journalists who stand up to him. It’s working. Here's the most important thing you missed: youtu.be/4Ch2t4ffc0o?...

submitted 1 day ago • 117 comments

Translation: That’s a nice country you’ve got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.

submitted 1 day ago • 265 comments

Todd Blanche, Trump’s criminal defense lawyer, promised he would follow the advice of career ethics officials at the Department of Justice. Then they fired the career ethics officials. Piece by piece they are destroying the Justice Dept. And any hope of justice along with it.

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

Elon and other unvetted Trump enablers shouldn't have access to the entire nation's personal and financial data. Can my Republican colleagues acknowledge that? We're forcing a vote to block that access. Let's see where they land.

submitted 1 day ago • 253 comments

Senate Republicans just BLOCKED Sen. Ossoff’s amendment to protect children’s and maternal health care through Medicaid.

submitted 1 day ago • 173 comments

Russia invaded Ukraine. This is Putin’s war. If Trump won’t say it, the Senate damn well should. And we will have the chance tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 133 comments

Thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, firefighters who just finished weeks of around-the-clock shifts fighting dangerous fires were given a note from their Commander in Chief: "Please quit." That’s a hell of a way to say thank you.

submitted 1 day ago • 186 comments

I’m forcing the Senate to vote on an amendment to reverse Trump’s layoffs of thousands of critical wildland firefighters. My colleagues claim to support our first responders. Time for them to prove it.

submitted 2 days ago • 220 comments

For all my colleagues who want to be on Donald Trump's 'good side' - just remember: There's more room under the Trump Bus than on it.

submitted 2 days ago • 165 comments

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 2 days ago • 5075 comments

Donald Trump firing ~7000 IRS workers will mean three things: 1) More tax loopholes for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations 2) More debt, since IRS agents collect a lot more than they cost 3) Fewer ways to go after big tax cheats A great day to be a billionaire in America.

submitted 2 days ago • 144 comments

This morning, my colleagues and I stood in front of FBI headquarters to make it clear to everyone who wants an FBI focused on violent crime and not on political retribution: Kash Patel would be a disaster as FBI Director.

submitted 2 days ago • 833 comments

Kash Patel can't do the job of FBI Director. He's patently unqualified. Those who vote for his confirmation will be accountable for the destruction he does to the nation's top law enforcement agency and to the rule of law.

submitted 2 days ago • 213 comments

Governing is about choices. And we have a big choice ahead of us. We can choose to invest in our families. Our workers. Our future. Or we can choose to give another few trillion to those who need it least.

submitted 3 days ago • 292 comments

Eve and I are out celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary! And I’m wearing the same shirt I wore on our first date — it’s a bit worn around the edges but then so am I. But three decades later, Adam and Eve are still going strong!

submitted 3 days ago • 1484 comments

It was perhaps fitting that Munich was the site of the Trump Administration’s dramatic appeasement of the Kremlin dictator, when the Vice President attacked our western allies, and the Defense Secretary weakened our NATO alliance. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 108 comments

Thanks to Donald Trump – it's a great day to be a billionaire in America. For the rest of us? Not so much.

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

When CA or any state struggles to respond to devastating wildfires this year: It won't be because "the spigots" are closed. There are no such spigots. But it just may be that when we needed help the most – firefighters' jobs got cut to pay for billionaire tax cuts.

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

“You should have never started it.” Such ignominious ignorance. Such betrayal of our ally. Such a cowardly surrender.

submitted 4 days ago • 898 comments

Why has Donald Trump been indicted more than any other president in history? Well, here’s the answer:

submitted 4 days ago • 145 comments

Cutting funding at a time when California and other states remain so vulnerable makes no sense. When disaster strikes again, we need to be prepared, not underfunded and understaffed.

submitted 4 days ago • 249 comments

Another shoe drops. The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration resigned after DOGE sought access to highly sensitive recipient information. Trump & Musk’s effort to steal your data and gut your hard-earned benefits continues. While the GOP remains silent.

submitted 4 days ago • 309 comments

Guns are the number one killer of kids in this country. But right now, in many states, a teenager can buy an assault-style weapon. I'm a cosponsor of the Age 21 Act to prohibit the sale or possession of assault-style weapons to those under 21. It's just common sense.

submitted 4 days ago • 533 comments

Wherein Elon says the quiet, corrupt part out loud: He intends to steal the private IRS data of his political enemies. How soon before he does the same to his economic competitors? Or you?

submitted 5 days ago • 696 comments

"The benign influence of good laws under a free government... the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors and dangers." Washington’s words 229 years ago, a reminder of how far we are falling short of his vision. And how vital it is that we defend the cherished work of our founders.

submitted 5 days ago • 199 comments

Housing costs. Up. Food costs. Way up. Cancer research. Down. Californians are already feeling the impacts of the Trump Musk “billionaire-first” agenda.

submitted 5 days ago • 207 comments

Elon Musk is trying to access your personal bank and tax data. The world’s richest man should not and cannot be able to snoop around your personal finances. Period. End of story.

submitted 5 days ago • 851 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk need to come up with trillions for a tax break for the wealthiest Americans. And to pay for it, everything is on the chopping block.

submitted 6 days ago • 227 comments

Received this plaque from the Army to display in my Senate office. A beautiful reminder of our service members and their patriotism – including my father, Ed, who served in the Army and whom we lost last year at age 96.

submitted 6 days ago • 94 comments

JD Vance's remarks here at the Munich Security Conference were an attack on our allies and a gift to the Kremlin. Exactly the wrong message right now.

submitted 6 days ago • 114 comments

124+ journalists were killed last year. The deadliest year for reporters on record. A free press is at the core of democracy. It is necessary to safeguard human rights. We must keep up the work to protect journalists from coercion and even murder, and safeguard their critical work.

submitted 7 days ago • 196 comments

Spoken like a true dictator.

submitted 7 days ago • 1290 comments

So much for draining the swamp. Here's something really important you probably missed this week: youtu.be/9WNMZLMtv34?...

submitted 8 days ago • 110 comments

Happy Valentine's Day to my amazing wife and forever valentine, Eve.

submitted 8 days ago • 359 comments

If we confirm Kash Patel, knowing what we are getting, we will only have ourselves to blame.

submitted 9 days ago • 1542 comments

We shouldn't be surprised the American people have lost confidence in the Department of Justice and FBI. Donald Trump and his loyalists have been trashing them – without cause – for years. And confirming Kash Patel will only add fuel to the fire.

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

Thanks, Elon. My salary is public, as is my financial report. But since you ask, when will you be releasing yours?

submitted 9 days ago • 586 comments

Positive news for CA. Sen. Tim Scott and my bipartisan SBA Disaster Transparency Act passed the Small Business Committee this week. It's the next step in ensuring disaster survivors – in California and beyond – have access to the SBA funding they need to recover and rebuild.

submitted 9 days ago • 67 comments

RFK Jr. will not make America healthy again. But his ignorance may make people sick again. Deprive them of the treatment they need again. Cause hospitals to close again. We have to vote like our lives depend on it. Because for many Americans – it will.

submitted 9 days ago • 223 comments

I asked Trump’s nominee for Deputy AG whether he would commit to releasing volume 2 of Special Counsel Smith’s investigation. A criminal defense lawyer still representing Trump would say “no.” A Deputy AG representing the American people would say “yes.” Here was his answer:

submitted 10 days ago • 82 comments

Donald Trump illegally fired 19 inspectors general. The law requires notice to Congress and a case-by-case justification. It is not optional. Congress must convene a bipartisan hearing to examine these unlawful acts and how they can be remedied. Immediately.

submitted 10 days ago • 212 comments

I asked Todd Blanche – Donald Trump's personal defense lawyer and nominee for Deputy Attorney General – whether he'd commit to preserving evidence in the January 6 and Mar-a-Lago investigations. He could not say yes.

submitted 10 days ago • 91 comments