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A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

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Instead of focusing on America’s national security, this man is treating America like a reality show. Firing QUALIFIED military leaders! Playing with our national security! This isn’t a game. crockett.house.gov/media/press-...

submitted 23 hours ago • 257 comments

More gut-wrenching data that shows what happens when Republicans ban abortion: more women hospitalized for PREVENTABLE conditions, more women miscarrying, more women dead. Republicans want to control women's lives and bodies—no matter the consequences. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

How does firing Americans help make America great again? Cutting 5-8% of the workers is unproductive and harmful to our economy and society. This is just simply reckless and unsustainable. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 736 comments

And here we were supposed to think Republicans supported states’ rights.

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You forgot the word ILLEGAL

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He truly is the emperor with no clothes.

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Everyday Americans will pay for Republicans' billionaire tax breaks with their health care. They will pay for billionaire tax breaks with abandoned medical research. They will pay for billionaire tax breaks with shuttered family farms and small businesses. I'm voting NO.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Senate Democrats just put forward an amendment to make sure no one making $1 BILLION per year gets MORE tax cuts. Senate Republicans voted NO. Prices are up but don't worry Republicans are going to cut taxes for billionaires.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

🚨🚨🚨 PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana. For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5. 1/2

submitted 2 days ago • 1303 comments

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

submitted 2 days ago • 2872 comments

Chris Kluwe, a former NFL player for the Minnesota Vikings, was arrested after speaking out against plans to install a plaque with references to President Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” at a library in Huntington Beach, California.

submitted 2 days ago • 161 comments

Reminder: When you look at the Weather Channel App and it talks about Warnings, Watches, Advisories, Outlooks active in your area. Those are all done by @NOAA @NWS the National Weather Service. The Weather Channel does NONE of that stuff. Carry on...

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

INBOX: Senator Patty Murray has released a list of $396bn+ in federal funding that remains blocked or in jeopardy by the new regime. That includes $70bn+ for transportation.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Gulf of Mexico, still. Denali, since time immemorial. Felon, always.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The Every Student Succeeds Act is one of the main K-12 laws to help states improve schools for our kids. It is stunning to me that Linda McMahon wants to lead the Department of Education but couldn’t name EVEN ONE part of this basic federal education law she would focus on. It’s disqualifying.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

Senate Republicans just confirmed RFK Jr. to lead HHS & put YOUR family's health care at risk. An anti-vax conspiracist who knows nothing about essential programs people rely on just became the most powerful health official.

submitted 9 days ago • 46 comments

Tonight, I tried to pass an amendment to have a nonpartisan watchdog, GAO, conduct a basic review and audit of DOGE. Everyone should be for more transparency but every Republican in our committee markup voted NO. What are they scared of finding out?

submitted 10 days ago • 109 comments

On Rachel Maddow's show, she showed how red state economies are beginning to be demolished by Elon Musk's cuts in Federal subsidies that prop them up. Republicans, avoiding constituents, sure aren't acting like they will have to face free, fair, and honestly counted elections in '26, '28, and '30.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I tried to pass an amendment in the Budget Committee to reverse Trump’s illegal & arbitrary NIH cuts. We’re talking a MASSIVE cut that will end lifesaving cancer research & more. No Republican spoke against it during debate (I wonder why), but every Republican voted NO.

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 10 days ago • 896 comments

I thought Republicans were supposed to be constitutionalists

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We should not be cutting health care for working families to deliver massive tax breaks for billionaires. Repost if you agree.

submitted 10 days ago • 32 comments

There will be devastating consequences if RFK Jr. is confirmed. Senate Republicans need to show some courage, show some conscience, and say NO to a vaccine denier becoming our highest-ranking health official.

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

ERRONEOUSLY declared. You forgot that part.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Hard-working people who do so much for our country are being threatened with arbitrary layoffs because of the whims of the richest man in the world. INCLUDING nuclear safety engineers at Hanford. How does that leave anyone better off?

submitted 13 days ago • 50 comments

Congress is meant to be a check on Presidential abuse of power—it’s the way our democratic system of checks & balances works. It’s time for Republicans to say “enough” and stand with the people they represent and against the corruption & lawlessness we’ve seen from Trump & Elon.

submitted 13 days ago • 74 comments

submitted 17 days ago • 572 comments

Trump and Musk have yet to find a law they think applies to them—but that is NOT how things work in this country. We have a democracy. We have checks and balances—and Democrats will push back with every single tool we have.

submitted 19 days ago • 106 comments

Trump is now purging Department of Education employees for taking diversity trainings HE encouraged them to take. He's pushing out staff that process student loans & get resources to our schools. This won't help our kids learn or even save us money. He's just breaking services people rely on.

submitted 19 days ago • 42 comments

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

submitted 20 days ago • 3292 comments

As any Freshman economics major will tell Donald, tariffs are imposed on the IMPORTING NATION—NOT the exporting nation. This means AMERICAN businesses will now pay 25% more for many essential goods and raw materials they import from abroad. (1/4)

submitted 21 days ago • 388 comments

Happy Black History Month! America may be facing a SUPER villain, but we are the heroes of our own story. With resilience, grace, and unapologetic power, we rise. No villain can dim our light—our magic is unstoppable. My story is called Unleashing Black Girl Magic: The Superpower Within!

submitted 21 days ago • 473 comments