Trump broke the law to raise your prices. How dumb is that?
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Trump broke the law to raise your prices. How dumb is that?
Fire RFK Jr. now.
Epstein Don is ready to put everyone he can in danger to distract you from how he's hiding the Epstein files. Or maybe he just needs the money to pay for his weekly golf trips and JD's crazy number of vacations.
Trump knew RFK Jr. would be a disastrous pick to lead health care in America, and he nominated him anyway. Trump made this mistake, and now he must fire RFK Jr. immediately.
Historically bad nominees deserve a historic level of scrutiny by Senate Democrats.
I don’t recall this hysteria from John when Mitch stole a Supreme Court Justice.
I think Trump has been sniffing too much of his own bronzer.
America first? Doesn’t sound like it, Donald.
FEMA’s own staff knows it: Trump is setting up the American people for disaster.
All that happened was Putin ate Trump’s lunch. Again.
Taking away people’s health care to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy is the MOST UNPOPULAR legislation in decades with the American people. NO SHIT That’s Trump’s big, ugly accomplishment.
This is more bullshit from Trump. He cuts off wind and solar—some of the cheapest forms of energy—and then blames them when energy prices going up. We said this would happen when he made his $1 billion “deal” with the oil companies.
While we wait for critical details of what was discussed—on first take it appears Trump handed Putin legitimacy, a global stage, zero accountability, and got nothing in return. Our fear is that this wasn’t diplomacy—it was just theater.
Today, Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for authoritarian thug Vladimir Putin. Instead of standing with Ukraine and our allies, Trump stood shoulder to shoulder with an autocrat that has terrorized the Ukrainian people and the globe for years.
It’s August 15th, the deadline for Trump and Bondi to release the Epstein files to us under the Rule of 5. They’re now breaking the law to hide the files. Sen. Thune must appoint a lawyer to defend the Senate in Court and get the files. If he chooses complicity—we’ll take them to court ourselves.
Donald Trump has been trying to distract from the Epstein files and from House Republicans running away on their Epstein Recess. We’re not going to let him. From talking to @aaronparnas.bsky.social:
Trump told me to GO TO HELL when he sent Senate Republicans home with nothing because Senate Democrats stood strong. I’m proud of that. He can say that again, and again, and again. From me with @aaronparnas.bsky.social:
Parnas: If he went to Congress and said, “You know what? There’s this crime emergency. We need the National Guard out there longer. We need to take over Washington, D.C.” Would you grant it? Schumer: No fucking way.
I’m thrilled to announce I’m appointing Jack Schlossberg to the America 250 Commission. We need someone who will make sure America's 250th birthday celebrates our nation and our values. And I can’t think of a better person than Jack to take on that mission.
Today, I’m traveling Upstate NY continuing my “Trump Screwed You Over” Tour with swings in: —Cortland on how Trump is slashing Social Security —Jamestown on how Trump is ripping away jobs —Seneca Falls on how Trump is hurting rural schools —Yates County on how tariffs are hurting our farmers
This is authoritarianism. Texas Democrats are standing up for Democracy, and Republicans want to send in the federal government to round them up? That is not American. And of course they're not yelling that the FBI should round up House Republicans when they skipped town over the Epstein files.
Trump is illegally impounding funds that would go to help feed kids and fight cancer. Fighting for him to follow the law isn’t extortion. It’s Congressional oversight. It’s the Art of the Deal.
Today, I’m doing a five-county “Trump Screwed You Over” Tour in Upstate New York: Talking about jobs in Orleans, tariffs in Niagara, health care in Cayuga, Social Security in Broome, and mental health and education cuts in Tioga.
The Epstein files beg to differ.
Democrats stood strong, and Donald Trump got nothing.
Reading Trump’s "Mean Tweets":
Read it from @apnews.com: “Senate heads home with no deal to speed confirmations as irate Trump tells Schumer to ‘go to hell’” apnews.com/article/sena...
I’m closely monitoring reports of an earthquake in the New York and New Jersey area and praying everyone is safe. Please follow local guidance and stay alert for possible aftershocks.
Donald Trump caved and got nothing.
Donald Trump’s style: Posture Cajole Stamp your feet … and then give up
Let me clear what happened: Donald Trump attempted to steamroll the Senate to put in place his historically unqualified nominees. But Senate Democrats wouldn’t let him.
The Art of the Deal.
NEW: Senate Democrats took to the Senate floor today to force Senate Republicans to answer for Trump’s coverup of the Epstein crisis and crimes.
$200 million for Trump’s large, fancy White House ballroom. That’s what DOGE was for. Not to save money for you. To give money for some fancy place for Trump.
We’re using a NEW TOOL to pry the Epstein Files from Donald Trump and Pam Bondi. The Rule of Five. Here’s how it works:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...
The Rule of Five: Federal law requires government agencies to provide information if any five members of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee request it. And we’re using it to force Trump and Bondi to release the Epstein files to us.
At a time when our democracy is already at risk, Republicans are making it harder for people to vote, and trying to revert to Jim Crow. That's why we’re working to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, to fight for, and to protect our democracy.
Let me be clear: Trump sending his personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell stinks of high corruption and conflict of interest.
Senate Republicans are just straight up saying it on the Senate floor: They are blocking the release of the Epstein files to give Trump cover.
House Republicans ran out of town on the Epstein Recess. Senate Republicans are rushing to block the files from being released.
House Republicans knew this and left town?!
Maybe Speaker Johnson declared the Epstein Recess to give Trump time to prepare papers for the pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell. Disgraceful.
And what Republicans are doing instead of working on the government funding deadline coming up quickly? Senate Republicans are trying to rush through Trump’s henchman Emil Bove. And House Republicans are trying to slink out of town to cover up the Epstein files they’ve promised to deliver.
Senator Thune is out on Fox News asking for more bipartisanship after passing the Big, Ugly Betrayal and after jamming through a hyper-partisan rescissions package designed by Russell Vought? What a joke.
THE SENATE DEMOCRATS WALKED OUT OF THE JUDICIARY HEARING WHEN SENATE REPUBLICANS TRIED TO FORCE THROUGH EMIL BOVE. He’s unfit to be the nominee. He’s probably the most scandal-ridden nominee in modern history. He’s just a Trump lackey.
The FCC is investigating CBS’s interview with Harris but not Fox News’s misleading edits to its Trump interview about the Epstein files. This is an outrageous double standard. @schumer.senate.gov and I are calling on the FCC to end its politically motivated investigations.
It’s past midnight, and Democrats aren’t letting up. We’re introducing amendment after amendment to fight the Trump-MAGA-Senate Republican cuts, their cuts public broadcasting that Americans need, and their cuts to foreign aid that helps keep Americans safe.
Democrats are continuing to put amendment after amendment on the Senate floor to fight back against this damaging Republican bill that will defund public broadcasting that Americans rely on for critical local news and defund foreign aid that’s vital to American national security.
Today on the Senate floor, Democrats are exposing this damaging Republican rescissions package that is designed to hurt the American people—all so billionaires and special interests pay less in taxes. We’re using amendments to hold Republicans accountable for this awful bill.
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Paul Noth. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our humor newsletter to never miss a Daily Cartoon: nyer.cm/kyxchAh
After I demanded an investigation into what role the Trump staff cuts played in the response to the horrible tragedy in Texas, Trump threw a fit. Now we know why: Trump and Noem fired key personnel at FEMA, weakening America's disaster response ecosystem.
The week after Grok went full antisemitic and called itself “MechaHitler”, this is what Trump announces?!
The largest measles outbreak in 33 years. More than 25 years after America declared measles eliminated. It’s past time for Secretary Kennedy to declare a public health emergency and prioritize kids over conspiracies.
Wtf is going on with Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon?
90 days ago today: Trump promised the world that his tariffs would lead to 90 deals in 90 days. By my count, he’s at least 88 trade “deals” short…
This bill isn’t freedom. This bill isn’t independence. This bill is betrayal.
Today, we celebrate America’s Independence Day! 🇺🇸 Like our founders, we must continue to fight for our democracy, for our rights, for our freedoms, today and every day.
In July and August, we will take the next phase of this fight to every state and every district pointing out on the ground just how much Republicans have betrayed their constituents.
BIG: Rep. Jeffries has broken the record for the longest speech on the House floor fighting this betrayal by Republicans. Democrats in the Senate and House have now held the floor in each chamber showing just how much Republicans are betraying America.
Senate Republicans have betrayed the American people. When people start losing their Medicaid When people start losing their jobs When electric bills go up When health care premiums go up When kids and parents lose SNAP funding The American people will remember this vote.
Today, Senate Republicans betrayed the American people.
Republicans seem more outraged by my floor speech than by stripping health care from 16 million Americans.
@schumer.senate.gov is leading Senate Democrats in fighting against the Big Beautiful Betrayal. We are forcing votes on amendments that will show whether Republicans will stand up for hungry children and rural hospitals, or betray them.
I just put up an amendment to the Republicans' Big, Ugly Bill that says something simple: If people's healthcare costs go up, the billionaire tax cuts vanish. The Republicans tried to shout me down. And then they voted it down. The American people will not forget.
Senate Democrats are fighting for the people.
fixed it for you, senator graham
I know damn well the Republicans haven't read this bill. So, we’re going to make them.
NOW: I just objected to the Republicans moving forward on their Big, Ugly Bill without reading it on the Senate floor If Republicans actually want their own constituents to pay for tax breaks for billionaires at the expense of healthcare and food assistance, then at least they deserve the receipts
BREAKING: I will object to Republicans moving forward on their Big, Ugly Bill without reading it on the Senate floor Republicans won’t tell America what’s in the bill So Democrats are forcing it to be read start to finish on the floor We will be here all night if that’s what it takes to read it
BIG: Senate Democrats stopped Republicans’ ploy to jam a dangerous gun lobby loophole into their Big, Ugly Betrayal. It would’ve deregulated silencers, rifles, and shotguns, eliminating background checks and registration, rolling back century-old law.
The Supreme Court's latest decision endangers women’s health care even further. For many, Planned Parenthood is their only option for affordable health care. Access to health care is a basic right—no matter what the MAGA court thinks. @democrats.senate.gov will keep fighting.
One thing is clear from the all-Senators briefing on the Iran strikes: The Trump admin has no coherent strategy. No end game. No plan. That's why we need to enforce the War Powers Act, and the administration must provide answers.
This win saves hundreds of billions of dollars for Americans to get healthcare, rather than funding tax cuts to billionaires. Republicans could try to find other ways to fund billionaire tax cuts, Senate Democrats will fight those like hell too.
NEWS: In the Ugly Senate Republican bill, Democrats successfully fought a noxious provision that would’ve decimated America’s healthcare system and hurt millions of Americans.
Senate Democrats will never relent in our efforts to ensure all women in America have access to precisely what everyone deserves: dignity, privacy, and access to high quality health care in every community in the nation.
Make no mistake—Senate Republicans own the consequences of this loathsome MAGA Supreme Court decision. They packed our courts with extremists and they’re the chief architects of the dismal state of women’s health care in America.
BREAKING: We fought Republicans’ backdoor abortion ban in the Senate bill. We fought Republicans’ latest move to rip away health care from women, to ensure that reproductive care would continue to be covered in the ACA marketplace. AND WE WON.
Republicans know their attacks on reproductive health care are dangerous and deeply unpopular. We are reintroducing the Women's Health Protection Act today to restore abortion access nationwide.
What is the administration so afraid of? This last-minute postponement of their briefing with Senator on Iran is outrageous, evasive, and derelict. They have a legal obligation to inform Congress precisely about what is happening.
This is Kevin Schulte, CEO of GreenSpark Solar—one of the fastest growing companies in Rochester, NY. Because the Republican Big, Ugly Bill is threatening to end the clean energy tax credits that we delivered: GreenSpark Solar is being forced to lay off staff. Watch his story:
The Republican Senate Finance Committee draft is even worse than expected. It is the Republican House bill on steroids. Tens of millions will lose their health care Electricity bills will go up Millions of good-paying jobs will be lost
Arresting Comptroller Lander is despicable and another example of Trump weaponizing law enforcement to attack political enemies rather than focusing on public safety. DHS is flat-out lying in its statement. In the video, Comptroller Lander plainly does not lay a hand on anyone.
Republicans snuck in a backdoor abortion ban in their “Big, Ugly Betrayal.” It defunds Planned Parenthood and threatens coverage for comprehensive reproductive care from state ACA marketplaces. It’s a direct assault on women’s healthcare in America.
TRUMP JUST DISMANTLED the program aimed to spot lone-actor violence and violent domestic extremists, exactly like what happened in Minnesota The day before the attack, the last top officials there were reassigned Trump is weaponizing DOJ into going after his political enemies instead of criminals
Good. I called for this because they should have never been posted in the first place. He needs to apologize to the victims’ families.
America witnessed one of the largest peaceful demonstrations in our country's history on No Kings Day. Nearly 5 MILLION Americans took to the streets to make their voices heard against the rise of authoritarianism. It was inspiring. And I was so proud to be one of them.
The way agents treated Senator Padilla is what you see in totalitarian regimes. It is outrageous that Secretary Noem let this happen, then lied about the incident after the fact. She has proven herself to be derelict in her responsibilities.
It was sickening to see United States Senator Mike Lee use the tragedy in Minnesota to take cheap political shots, risk escalating a dangerous moment, fan the flames of division with lies while the killer was still on the loose He needs to take his posts down and apologize to the victims’ families
The Senate Sergeant at Arms and the U.S. Capitol Police have bent over backwards to help Senators, and they deserve our thanks.
Buffalo’s own Solar Liberty is one of WNY’s largest home solar installers, helping families lower their energy bills. We made federal investments to boost small businesses like Solar Liberty. But now the GOP plan could devastate them, hurting jobs and manufacturing and driving up energy costs.
I’m here with GreenSpark Solar, named Rochester’s #1 fastest-growing business But they’ve already had to lay off 20 workers because of Republicans’ attacks on clean energy And they’re worried about the future of their business with the Republican bill that would hike energy bills
It’s hard to believe that the Senate Republicans would put forward a bill that’s even worse than the House bill on Medicaid, but they did. Even more people will lose health care Even more hospitals will close Even more people will have their health insurance costs skyrocket
The Republican Senate Finance draft cuts to Medicaid are deeper and more devastating than even the Republican House’s disaster of a bill This could lead to even more than the 16M people expected to lose health insurance and the hundreds of hospitals and health centers facing higher risk of closure
The Republican Finance draft is a head fake and farce. It increases energy costs. Period. The quick phaseout for solar and wind alone will make energy more expensive, make it harder to compete with China, and kill thousands upon thousands of jobs across the country, mostly in Republican districts.
I was so happy to celebrate with 30 grandfathers and the Chinese American community in Flushing, Queens! Thank you to the Flushing Chinese Business Association and Peter Tu for organizing the wonderful celebration!
Over 5 million Americans marched on No Kings Day. And I was so proud to be one of the them.
And thank you to Sen. Schumer for raising the idea of fighting for our democracy on Flag Day. It was a powerful patriotic contrast to President Trump’s birthday parade