On May 4, 2017, all of these men gleefully celebrated passing a bill that would have taken mental health care from millions of Americans. Today, these same men blamed mental illness for gun violence.
I’m introducing an immediate economic relief plan for every American.
—$4k to every adult who makes under 100k per year
—$2k to every adult who makes over 100k per year
—$1k for every child 18 or younger
We need to ensure every family has the funds to survive at this moment.
New video shows severe overcrowding of men in cages at Texas detainment facility during VP Pence's visit Friday.
A group of men detained behind chain link fencing shouted to news cameras, "No shower, no shower!"
Old enough to remember the time in 2018 when Trump/Ryan/McConnell shut down the government because we couldn’t afford $3.4B for health care for low-income kids. But please, lecture us about how spending $5B on an ineffective wall is in our national interest.
#TrumpShutdown
He has lied about who’s paying for it. You are.
He has lied about who’s arriving at our border. Asylum seekers & terrified families.
He has lied about who supports it. No former presidents.
He has lied about why we need it. We don’t.
Tonight will be no different.
2 out of 3 sexual assaults are never reported. Might have something to do with the fact that for every 1,000 rapes, 994 perpetrators walk free. And the fact that men in power make statements like this one.
I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!
A new rule from Betsy DeVos would require universities to allow accused sexual abusers to cross-examine and re-traumatize their victims. This is absolutely sickening.
The President votes by mail.
The Vice President votes by mail.
The Attorney General votes by mail.
The Secretary of Education votes by mail.
The President's campaign manager votes by mail.
They’re lying to you because they’re scared of you.
President Trump understands the weight his words carry. His tweet about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar puts her life & her family’s lives at risk. Our outrage should be nonpartisan. That it’s not will only give him license to continue to incite violence.
Janitors, security guards, food service employees and millions of other contract workers who keep our government functioning will not be reimbursed for paychecks missed during this shutdown. Every single one of them should receive back pay. Period.
A little advice for
@staceyabrams
as she prepares our Democratic rebuttal:
-Be yourself, you’ll crush it
-He’ll talk longer than you expect so keep snacks handy
-Be the fighter we know you are
-Misplace your chapstick
-You have millions of Americans standing with you
Good luck!
You might not know this about me, but I'm a white guy. And as a white guy, I would encourage
@realDonaldTrump
& his fellow GOP white guys to consult a not-white-guy in their efforts to enact comprehensive immigration reform in less than 24 hours.
Arrived in Tornillo TX where first tent city for kids has gone up. Was refused entrance by HHS. Given amount of misinformation and conflicting info coming from Trump Admin, it’s critical that Congress and American public know exactly how these children are treated by our system.
3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000...
ICE arrested a California man on Wednesday when he stopped for gas while driving his wife to the hospital for her C-section. She ended up driving herself the rest of the way, giving birth alone.
A week from today, hours after delivering a massive, unfunded handout to corporations sitting on $2.3 trillion in cash, GOP might shut down the government because providing care for low-income kids would bankrupt us.
You literally couldn't tell us how many human beings have died on your watch less than a month ago and you lied about a policy of ripping kids from parents. So yes, we're a little hesitant to take you at your word.
I am disappointed that Dems did not want to hear from
@DHSgov
about the security & humanitarian crisis we are facing at the border. They didn’t want to hear about criminal aliens, drug smugglers, smuggled & abused children or violent caravans trying to breach the border wall.
For a guy who has tried to erase President Obama's legacy at every possible turn, Trump reached a major milestone today.
All those jobs President Obama created are gone.
Trump/Ryan/McConnell trifecta in numbers:
-4M working age Americans lost health care
-$1.5T corporate handout
-$779B deficit
-Worst Dec stock market since 1931
-17% increase in hate crimes
-2,654 migrant kids taken from families
-~40,000 gun deaths in 2017
But wait there’s more.
Black women are 243% more likely to die from pregnancy or childbirth than white women. We can’t have a conversation about this country’s horrifying maternal mortality rate without having a conversation about race.
A GOP operative in NC tries to undercut an election. A GOP legislature in WI tries to undermine election results. Yet, a simple misunderstanding sends a woman with a green card to prison for 8 years for voting. You tell me what’s a greater threat to our democracy.
GOP &
@realDonaldTrump
aren’t only shutting down the government tonight, they’re allowing the Violence Against Women Act to expire and leaving survivors of domestic violence & sexual assault without critical, lifesaving resources. Shameful.
They will stop at nothing to divert your attention. It’s the video games. It’s the music. It’s the media. It’s the religion. It’s the schools. It’s them, it’s not us. It’s mental health but we’ll take your care anyways. Anything but the bullet in a child’s heart or mother’s head.
Fred Guttenberg, the father of Jamie Guttenberg who was killed in the shooting in Parkland, Fla., left, tries to shake hands with
@realDonaldTrump
's Supreme Court nom., Brett Kavanaugh, right, during a lunch break. Kavanaugh did not shake his hand. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
@ap
1 day of Trump headlines:
- Senior officials ignored law to help Saudi Arabia get nukes
- President asked Acting AG to interfere with SDNY
- Dept of Ed tried to obstruct investigation into Sec. DeVos
- Commerce Sec. lied on his financial disclosure
This isn't normal.
For 2 years,
@realDonaldTrump
has focused on what he can take away: your citizenship. Your healthcare. Your right to vote. Your food assistance. Your Medicare. Your very existence as a trans American. Your clean environment. When did making America less ever make America great?
President Trump turned America’s back on Dreamers. He abandoned our neighbors protected by TPS. He created a humanitarian crisis for migrant kids. And now he’s trying to use the pain he has inflicted on others as leverage to end the pain he imposed on civil servants.
NEW: Sec. of State Tillerson said "Russia continues to be an irresponsible force of instability in the world, acting with open disregard for the sovereignty of other states and the life of their citizens" in statement on spy poisoning
Banning transgender men and women from serving in our military is based on nothing more than bigotry. To all of the brave trans troops in uniform today, please know that this President does not speak for a country eternally grateful for your service.
#ProtectTransTroops
14,000 loyal GM employees will clock out tonight to an uncertain future. Meanwhile GM’s stock soars, benefiting shareholders and shareholders alone. Our nation deserves a better capitalism - a moral capitalism - that rewards workers for the success they help build.
In case anyone thinks for a second that what the Trump Administration is doing at the border is about immigration policy or public safety or enforcing our laws: It’s about skin color. It’s always been about skin color.
The Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies, and it is undertaking a widespread crackdown on their citizenship.
The self-proclaimed party of ‘patriotism & strength’ is willing to shutdown the American government because they’re scared of being tweeted at by a bully who gets his marching orders from the hosts of Fox & Friends.
Put aside partisan politics & process. Christine Blasey Ford deserves to be heard. She deserves decency from our government, not a power play from GOP Senate.
If
@realDonaldTrump
really understood the humanitarian crisis we face, he would have taken the time to talk to a single migrant child or separated family – he didn’t.
Meet James Matthew Kennedy. Born early this morning and doing great. First gift he received was (appropriately) a Patriots jersey from Grandpa Joe. Thanks to all for the kind words. We are exhausted, over the moon and deeply grateful!
99 years ago a white mob massacred hundreds of Black people in the Greenwood District of Tulsa.
The most racist President of my lifetime knows exactly what message he’s sending when he goes there on Juneteenth.
Bullets tearing through classrooms followed by images of terrified students and grieving parents should shock us to our very core. This shouldn’t be treated as a fact of American life. Devastated - again - for the young lives we lost today.
Students should not have to learn how to avoid an AR-15’s bullets before they learn algebra. Congress’s silence will not suffice when
#StudentsDemandAction
. We owe them better.
#NeverAgain
Over the course of his career Judge Kavanaugh has used the bench to undermine worker rights, threaten access to healthcare, block efforts to curb gun violence and advance one conservative cause after another. Senate should reject.
#SCOTUS
Three weeks after a court deadline, 565 immigrant children, 24 under the age of 5, will sleep alone tonight on American soil without knowing where their parents are. No more excuses, no more delays. Reunite these families.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
We are in an election year and the man in charge of defending American democracy refuses to even acknowledge the countless ways Russia has and is trying to infiltrate and undermine that sacred system. This makes Congressional oversight and independence all the more critical.
Mr. President, you created a harmful, hateful policy. You spent weeks lying to us about it while kids suffered. You tried to use those kids as political pawns. You finally admitted you could have stopped it all along. And thousands of kids are still separated from their parents.
An HHS official tells
@weijia
that there will NOT be special efforts made to reunite children who have already been separated from their families bc of the Zero Tolerance Policy, despite Trumps EO. Process will proceed for minors currently in the unaccompanied children program.
I don’t care what you believe, who you vote for or what you think about the nuances of immigration reform. These kids need to be with their parents. That's it. That's all there is.
#KeepFamiliesTogether
If Scott Pruitt & Ben Carson believe flying first class and sitting in luxury chairs is a better taxpayer investment than environmental protections & affordable housing, it is time for them to follow in Tom Price's footsteps and resign.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has agreed to spend $165,000 on “lounge furniture” for its Washington headquarters, in addition to a $31,000 dining set purchased for Ben Carson’s office, The Guardian reports.
From health care to economic justice to civil rights, the Democratic agenda stands in powerful contrast to President Trump’s broken promises to American families. Deeply honored to be chosen to deliver the response to the State of the Union next week. Stay tuned for updates!
He chose to separate those families. He chose to keep kids in tent cities. He chose tear gas for asylum seekers. He chose to use the livelihood of 800,000 federal workers as collateral. But
@realDonaldTrump
clearly won’t choose to end a crisis he created, so the GOP Senate must.
You won’t find a national emergency at our border, but you will find a manmade disaster in detention centers around the country where the human rights of women, men and children are under assault by this President and his Administration. (1/2)
Glad to see House GOP finally stand up to Steve King — who didn’t suddenly become racist this week. But hard to take their condemnation against white supremacy seriously when they’ve let it sit cozy in the White House for two years with barely a peep.
Spent the morning in TX at Clint and El Paso detention facilities. Big takeaways -- 1)
@CBP
was very resistant to Congressional oversight. They tried to restrict what we saw, take our phones, block photos and video. Atmosphere was contentious and uncooperative.
It’s a sad day when America can’t count on its President.
@potus
sold out our security, democracy and credibility— to an adversary who continues to attack our nation and undermine our values. 1/2
If one child sleeps alone on American soil tonight without any idea where their parents are,
@realDonaldTrump
has once again failed to meet his legal and moral obligations. Mr. President, you alone started this crisis. Together, we will not allow you to ignore it.
Deadline brings disorder at border. Volunteers described navigating a maze of bureaucracy, difficulty locating parents & children, and rushed parking lot reunions in cases. via
@BostonGlobe
22 immigrants have died in ICE detention over last 2 years. 2 kids died in CBP custody in the last 2 months. 15,000 migrants kids are held in custody. Donald Trump is right that we face an urgent, horrifying humanitarian crisis. He just leaves out the part about him creating it.
What this girl + her father must have survived to reach our shores. The things he must have told her in the darkest moments — about a country worth the journey, a place where the suffering would stop. Instead, this. Devastating.
Russia is a real threat to our democracy. Dreamers are anything but. Why is
@POTUS
willing to shutdown government to deport 700,000 young Americans but won’t even acknowledge a foreign adversary’s attack on us?
#TrumpShutdown
EXCLUSIVE: Pres. Trump tells
@GStephanopoulos
he wouldn't necessarily alert the FBI if approached by foreign figures with information on his 2020 opponent: "It’s not an interference. They have information. I think I’d take it."
25 Russians indicted. 5 guilty pleas. Mr. President, what you call a stain, we call a justice system standing strong for our democracy. Your fear of this investigation will not bring it to an end.
..This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further. Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!
**Eight times** Trump urged Ukrainian president about eight times to investigate Biden's son during a July phone call that has come under scrutiny in the wake of a whistleblower complaint.
via
@AlanCullison
@rebeccaballhaus
&
@dnvolz
:
Our government took a four-month-old baby from his father’s arms and refused to reunite them. Not only is this Administration not ashamed by that, they believe it was a success.
“At the airport, he refused to board without the baby. The immigration officers, he said, told him that Constantin would be handed to him once he had taken his seat. But the plane lifted off and the baby never came.” Heartbreaking story.
Senate passed CR without a single objection. House could likely pass it with a veto proof majority to keep the government open. Which means Paul Ryan is choosing to end his career in a government shutdown to satisfy President Trump.
Maybe the fact that you didn’t know or even hear of the person in charge of biomedical research for your Administration in the midst of a global health pandemic is part of the reason why we’re quickly approaching 100,000 deaths in this country.
I don’t know the so-called Whistleblower Rick Bright, never met him or even heard of him, but to me he is a disgruntled employee, not liked or respected by people I spoke to and who, with his attitude, should no longer be working for our government!
“Bullies may land a punch. They might leave a mark. But they have never, not once, in the history of our United States, managed to match the strength and spirit of a people united in defense of their future.”
#SOTUResponse
POTUS is rallying for a racist Senate candidate & attending opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum ON THE SAME TRIP. And he doesn't see the problem.
Scott Pruitt believes his first class flights and secure phone booth are more worthy of protection than the environment. He doesn’t belong at the EPA and he doesn’t belong in government. Past time to
#BootPruitt
.
You should be angry.
You should be angry that Senate Republicans are pleading ignorance.
You should be angry that they’re willing to set a dangerous precedent to hold onto power.
And then you should channel that anger into taking their power away.