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Isaiah's latest THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Cupid Killer Kim Davis." No, that's not Chris Farley in a ratty wig. The ugly thing explains, "It's me Kim Davis. I oppose marriage equality. Marriage is sacred that's why I've divorced three times and married four times. Shocked, right? How did someone as fat and ugly as me manage to land even one man?" Isaiah archives his comics at THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS.
The Snapshot
Wednesday, November 12, 2025. Chuck Schumer should step down as Senate Minority Leader, none of Chump's security appointees have any experience and it shows, Senator Elizabeth Warren warns a bout the ticking time bomb on student loans, and much more.
Let's start with angry e-mails. I don't look at every video that goes up here. A number of you are upset. I looked at the video after I read some of the e-mails and you are right to be upset. I didn't stream it before I posted it here and I didn't watch that program last night. The host is a smart person so I had thought he wouldn't dig himself deeper. The majority of Democrats disagree with him. We discussed this yesterday. My plan was to note -- as I did yesterday -- that he was wrong. And then I posted him this morning. Because he's smart. Or usually is. I had moved on and thought he would too.
He didn't move on and he got insulting with people who disagree with him. That's just stupid. Grasp that he's going on about Chump calling Americans fools while this host is doing the same thing as Chump. Those of us who disagree with him, he says in the video I wrongly posted here, are focused on feelings and not facts.
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Again, I thought he was smart enough to move on. Every host on his network knows Chuck Schumer betrayed the American people and they noted that on their programs.
I like the host. He's very smart. Again, I thought he would have moved on but instead he dug in deeper. In the future, he won't go up here automatically.
We don't have time to cover all of this. So let's deal with just one spect: We are focused on feelings and not facts!
That's his accusation. His false accusation.
He believes it's true.
Okay.
If it's true, how are you helping anyone?
Because, guess what, MS NOW host, people vote on feelings. They are more likely to vote on feelings than on facts. That's reality.
And when you sneer at voters -- and viewers -- that they are feelings based and not fact based -- how are you different from Chump calling Americans fools?
He's not going to win on this topic. He needs to leave it alone and stop returning to it.
Ezra Levin? More Democrats agree with him right now. He's also been on MS NOW this week and we've noted it. We haven't noted his Jim Acosta appearance so let note that this morning.
Ezra Levin speaks for more people than a host trying to sugar coat the betrayal. It is a betrayal and it feels like one because that's what it is. Defending Chuck for the betrayal? You're just running off viewers. We're not stupid.
And this nonsense argument the TV host is making goes like this: Schumer had no power or influence and couldn't -- in effect! -- herd cat and Schumer should remain Senate Minority Leader!
He has no power or influence? But he should remain the leader? That makes no sense at all. He's inept and he's had eight years, time to go.
At this late point,, you're either defending the people or you're defending the politician. I don't have time to waste defending inept politicians who betray the people and I'm betting that feeling is much more common among voters than the TV host's opinions -- which, though he tries to deny it, also stem from feelings.
My apology to community members for posting that. I hear you on this and, again, no more automatic posting for that host.
On Schumer, Alex Shephard (THE NEW REPUBLIC) writes:
What was this all for?
A few days ago, that question would not have been difficult to answer. The government shutdown was about cuts to Obamacare subsidies that were poised to cause the cost of health care to skyrocket for millions—and that would likely destroy the Affordable Care Act itself. It was about an increasingly lawless and authoritarian administration that had simply stopped participating in normal politics, preferring instead to deploy armed goons in communities across the country. It was about fighting back against a rogue regime to the enthusiastic hurrahs of a base that only last week came out to the polls to deal a hammer blow to the GOP.
What is there to say now that eight Democratic moderates—with the barely disguised backing of party leader Chuck Schumer and all-but-certain coordination from some of the Democratic senators pretending to have been against the decision—voted to reopen the government in exchange for practically nothing? A few days ago, the Democrats had all the leverage in the world. The Republicans had none. It didn’t matter. The Democrats bailed out Trump and his Capitol Hill supplicants. They threw millions of people under the bus. For what? They protected the filibuster so they wouldn’t be tempted to use it to make people’s lives better the next time they take power. Besides that? Nothing.
There are many villains here. Abigail Spanberger, the newly elected governor of Virginia, went on Meet the Press to give political cover to the renegades, undercutting her party, and demanding that they reopen the government—her interview was shared widely with her fellow Democrats. (Shivving her party after they’ve won an election is something of a Spanberger special.)
The New Hampshire delegation should be singled out for special excoriation—the retiring Jeanne Shaheen, along with Maggie Hassan, led the negotiations with Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and the independent (and probably retiring) Angus King. They were joined by another soon-to-depart colleague in Dick Durbin, two others whose terms run until 2030 (Jacky Rosen and Tim Kaine), and one who is John Fetterman (John Fetterman). Underlining every comment they have made to the press is a staggering admission of their own sense of helplessness.
You may have looked at the Democratic response over the last 40 days as a party that was finally standing up for itself. There is every indication that this caught Trump entirely by surprise, the fact that Senate Democrats were suddenly vertebrates. But since Republicans and the president were moving no closer to a deal, Senate Democrats decided it was time to give up. “Most of us here … have voted repeatedly with the Democratic strategy,” Kaine said. “But after 40 days, it wasn’t gonna work.” Angus King, meanwhile, put it even more bluntly: “Standing up to Donald Trump didn’t work.” (“Standing up to Trump” was previously thought to be the single biggest reason to elect opposition senators. King offered little detail on how he and the Democratic caucus will redefine their duties in light of this new mission.)
The biggest villain of them all, however, is someone who cast a kayfabe vote against the deal on Monday. No one bears the weight of the failed shutdown as much as Chuck Schumer.
His “no” vote is particularly galling because it leaves only two options on the table. The first is that the eight Democrats who broke away from their party did so without his knowledge or consent, a conclusion that could only suggest that Schumer has lost control of his caucus. The second is that the moderates were negotiating with Schumer’s knowledge, approval, and encouragement and that the “no” vote was just to conceal that—and maybe as a kind of consolation prize to the other Democrats in his caucus. This suggests that Schumer has lost any ability to organize or think politically or strategically. Regardless of the reason, he needs to step down immediately.
Multiple Democratic House members have called for Schumer to step down from his leadership position, including Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Mike Levin (D-CA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). Democrats in other positions across the country have criticized the capitulation, including the governors of California and New York, Gavin Newsom and Kathy Hochul, and the mayor-elect of New York City, Zohran Mamdani.
Immediately after Democratic senators folded, the progressive movement Indivisible launched what it said was the largest primary campaign it has ever run since forming almost a decade ago. “We need you in the fight for a stronger, better Democratic Party willing to defend our communities, our rights, and our democracy from the fascist threat of the Trump regime,” the group said on its sign-up page. It called on everyone who is “fed up with being failed by our leaders again and again” and wants to “elect the fighters we need in this moment.”
MoveOn, Our Revolution, and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee also have called on Schumer to resign.
Last week, President Donald Trump had what was arguably the worst week of his second term. And though the hits to him and his agenda came on several fronts, they had a unifying theme: affordability, as in the lack thereof.
A mini-blue wave swept the off-year elections on Nov. 4, and the dominant force behind the wave was Americans’ intense, lasting discomfort with how much things cost. On Wednesday, during oral arguments at the Supreme Court, conservative and liberal justices expressed skepticism of the administration’s arguments that the president’s tariffs, which the justices widely agreed raised costs, were legal. Trump made things even worse for himself by first treating affordability as a surprising new issue: The Democrats, he told Fox News on Wednesday, “have this new word called ‘affordability,’ and [Republicans] don’t talk about it enough.” Then, a day later, he didn’t even “want to hear about affordability.” As MSNBC’s Steve Benen cataloged, Trump’s dismissal of cost-of-living concerns was accompanied by an avalanche of wrong numbers, including gems like “Energy costs, as and [sic] example, are plummeting.”
I could point out that it takes one mouse click to prove that consumers’ electricity bills have gone up 5% over the past year while overall inflation is up 3%. But, in fact, no clicks are necessary. Trump, whose political instincts are rarely this far off, is making a big, basic mistake: telling people they’re better off than they know they are. As Axios summarized the situation: “You can’t convince Americans your economic policies are working if they’re paying 20% more for a cup of coffee.” Especially when that price is largely a function of the 50% tariff you levied on Brazil (with which, for the record, the U.S. runs a trade surplus).
Trump also keeps banging on about $2-per-gallon gas prices when no states are posting costs anywhere near that number. The national average Tuesday was $3.07, which is admittedly down from a year ago. By roughly 2 cents.
Grasp what all he knows and has covered up. He is 'the deep state' he used to decry. Who is his girlfriend, by the way? Marni Rose McFall (NEWSWEEK) reports:
Let's wind down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office:
Borrowers who earn income-driven repayment cancellation after decades of payments could be hit with tax bills as high as $10,000
“The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service should move immediately to avoid this financial disaster for working-class Americans.”
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, led her colleagues in a letter urging Secretary of the Treasury & Acting IRS Commissioner Scott Bessent to use the IRS’s existing legal authorities to stop the looming “tax bomb” facing borrowers who obtain income-driven repayment (IDR) discharges of their student loan debt. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate HELP Committee; Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.); Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.); Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.); Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.); Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii); Cory Booker (D-N.J.); and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) joined the letter as well.
In 2021, Congress passed into law a provision excluding student debt cancellation from taxable income. As a result, borrowers who received student debt relief after years of repayment were not faced with high and unexpected tax bills.
However, that provision is set to expire at the end of this year. Absent action from President Trump or Republicans in Congress, this expiration will mean that borrowers on IDR plans who have legally earned debt cancellation after 20 or 25 years of repayment will be hit with significant tax bills.
“If neither the Trump Administration nor the Republican-controlled Congress act soon, families who earn student debt cancellation after paying their loans for decades will be hit with surprise tax hikes—as high as $10,000 in many cases—starting next tax year,” wrote the senators. “The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service should move immediately to avoid this financial disaster for working-class Americans.”
New data from Protect Borrowers reveal that a typical family headed by a borrower receiving IDR cancellation (i.e., a married parent with two children earning $50,000 a year) could see their tax bill spike by $8,789. A similar family making $40,000 a year could shoulder a net tax increase of $10,295. Lower-income borrowers and borrowers with children would likely be forced to pay the most, as they stand to lose access to critical programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit and the refundable portion of the Child Tax Credit.
In their letter, the senators laid out the legal case for the Trump administration’s options to defuse the IDR “tax bomb.” In particular, they argued that the insolvency exclusion, scholarship exclusion, and general welfare exclusion were all options to declare IDR discharge as non-taxable income. The senators also noted that, in 2020, the Trump Administration delivered similar relief to recipients of closed school discharge and borrower defense to repayment, excluding those discharges from taxable income using its administrative authorities.
“By punishing IDR beneficiaries with massive tax bills, the federal government undermines the very purpose of the IDR program and reneges on its promises to borrowers,” the senators concluded. “Instead of compounding this problem by denying legally owed IDR discharge to borrowers, the Administration can and should deliver certainty and relief to these families as soon as possible.”
“President Trump and his allies in Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to cut taxes for billionaires while hiking taxes for thousands of student loan borrowers who have earned debt relief after paying for decades,” said Persis Yu, Deputy Executive Director and Managing Counsel for Protect Borrowers. “This tax bomb will force working families to trade their crushing student loan debt for a crushing tax debt. We applaud Senator Warren for taking the lead and demanding the Trump Administration take immediate action to protect these borrowers from being needlessly pushed further into debt. Policymakers must address this tax bomb before it is too late.”
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
The Snapshot
Tuesday, November 11, 2025. Chuck Schumer needs to step down from party leadership, we need to be pointing out how Chump and his administration can be held accountable, we need to be pointing out how the Supreme Court cannot rewrite the Constitution -- the supreme of the land and a document that makes clear a president can be punished for breaking the law -- and John Roberts can be impeached for violating the Constitution, all that and much more.
I don't know where to start so let's start with Lawrence O'Donnell.
I don't know why Lawrence said what he said but he's wrong. Anyone can be wrong. I'm wrong all the time. But what bothered me was how he tried to use history as a club. But he treated history like a buffet where he grabbed some of this and some of that but ignored the bulk of it.
Guess what, I don't want to hear how hare life is from Chuck Schumer. He's had a pretty good life. And he's been well paid. What he's facing now, we're told by Lawrence, isn't like what LBJ faced or what so and so faced or . . .
When LBJ was Senator Majority Leader, he faced many new problems. The way Chuck does now. Stop pretending otherwise. This nonsense of, "It was easier for LBJ"? No it wasn't. Yes, I'm sure it bcomes progressively worse for each person in the position but none of them had it easy.
And don't give me the hearding cats nonsense -- we've heard forever and a day.
How about some real history? In 2017, Schumer became the Democratic Party leader of the Senate. In 2017. And he's been that -- whether as Majority Leader or Minority Leader -- ever since.
That's 8 years. Lawrence, you know history, you know that's not normal.
It wasn't normal for LBJ to do it either. LBJ did it for 8 years. It's time to phase Schumer out. Since LBJ's been out of the Senate, we've seen some struggle through ten years. They weren't ten glorious years. Leadership needs to rotated. Schumer has reached his sell-by date.
Lawrence wants to offer the Estein vote in the House as a good thing. I noted that in yesterday morning's snapshot.
We also need to grasp that there's a positive to this sell out.
That's not an excuse for it. This was a betrayal, absolutely.
But stream the video below.
I believe it's 48 days. That's how long ago Adelita Grijalva was elected to the US Congress. And Speaker of the Closet Mike Johnson refuses to seat her still.
The cave means the House will have to go into session. That means Johnson has to swear Adelita Grijalva in. Which means she becomes the needed signature on the petition to force a floor vote in the House on releasing the Epstein files.
That's not why the betrayers sold us out over the weekend. Don't let them after-the-fact try to pretend that it is. But if one good thing comes of their betrayal, it will be that.
There was talk that Johnson was going to wait until the first week of December to bring the House back in session to protect Chump from the Epstein scandal. December 2nd, the 7th district in Tennessee holds a special election to fill a Congressional seat. The GOP thinks Matt Van Epps is going to beat Democrat Aftyn Behn. If that happens, Epps would cancel out Grijalva's signature.
I'm not trying to sell anyone on the betrayal being a good thing. But I am trying to point out one bright -- and unintended by the betrayers -- spot in this.
We need hope in these dark times. And I was happy to point out something hopeful. But I wasn't going to lie and pretend that's why Senate Dems betrayed us. Lawrence, via his presentation last night, appears to link the two as though they were a planned if-then action. They weren't.
Lawrence then wanted to insult every other Democrat in the Senate. When you claim no one else is qualified, no one can replace Schumer, that's what you're doing.
Senators Patty Murray, Ron Wyden, Sheldon Whitehouse, Amy Klobuchar, Tammy Baldwin, Jack Reed, Richard Blumenthal, Tammy Duckworth, Ruben Gallego . . . I'm sorry, I'm seeing 25 US senators who could easily slide into the position of Senate Majority Leader and do the job.
Schumer's had 8 years. And he started this year with people calling for him to be put out of that post. He knew that. He cancelled a book tour -- that's part of the deal, grasp that, a publishing house puts out your book because you've agreed to promote it -- because he was being called out by members of the Democratic Party.
He knew how they felt and he led the cave and don't give me that he didn't. He led it and he allowed it and it was what he wanted.
Voters want him gone and tht needs to happen. The party just stabbed us in the back. We need to see some accountability for that in order to restore any trust in party leadership.
He's had eight years, time to go. Step down. Let someone ele bring in some new ideas and try to offer better leadership.
What leadership has he offered?
He enjoys the title Democratic Party Leader of the Senate. He enjoys it as a yearbook credit. But he doesn't want to work for it or works as it. So step aside and let someone else step forward.
I disagree 100% with Lawrence on this and that doesn't make me happy. But we did put his video at the top and you can hear what he says.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:
Murray on voting NO on legislation that doesn’t address premium hikes: “I believe we do need to address health care costs before we move forward. There is simply no time left to kick the can down the road when it comes to saving the ACA tax credits… No one should doubt for a single second who is to blame for skyrocketing health care costs: Republicans and Republicans alone.”
Senator Murray has been sounding the alarm on the looming health care cost cliff and calling on Republicans to work with Democrats to extend the ACA tax credits for YEARS—FULL TIMELINE HERE
***WATCH: Senator Murray’s remarks***
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, spoke on the Senate floor about President Trump and Republicans’ refusal to prevent Americans’ health care costs from spiking and about the bipartisan continuing resolution (CR) and three-bill appropriations package that was released on Sunday and is expected to be voted on by the full Senate shortly.
Because of Republicans’ refusal to extend the ACA tax credits, 22 million Americans—including over 216,000 in Washington state—are seeing their health care costs for next year skyrocket. Premiums are more than doubling on average for people who buy health coverage on the exchange marketplaces (Washington Healthplanfinder in Washington state), and these higher costs will push 4.8 million people off their health insurance coverage over the next decade. A Washington-state specific fact sheet on the ACA enhanced premium tax credits is HERE.
A timeline detailing how Senator Murray has been fighting for years to extend the ACA tax credits, and calling on Republicans to come to the table and negotiate, is HERE.
Senator Murray’s full remarks, as delivered, are below and HERE:
“Mr. President, like so many people in this country, I am outraged by the fact Republicans have refused to lift a finger to save so many families from the skyrocketing health care premiums all year long.
“And I voted no on last night’s vote because I believe we do need to address health care costs before we move forward. There is simply no time left to kick the can down the road when it comes to saving the ACA tax credits.
“We are already ten days into enrollment. Yet we have Republicans saying, ‘why should we stop premiums from skyrocketing when we never really wanted to lower premiums in the first place?’
“We have Republicans talking about going back to the good ole days of high-risk pools, which meant that people with cancer couldn’t get health insurance.
“We have Speaker Johnson bragging that Republicans strengthened health care by making the biggest cut to Medicaid in history! That’s like saying you strengthened a ship—by throwing the passengers overboard!
“And when Democrats offered a clean one-year extension of the tax credits—which is truly the most straightforward and common-sense thing we can do for people facing gigantic premium hikes this year—Republicans said ‘never, ever, ever, ever.’ They called it ‘political terrorism.’
“And to really put a fine point on it—they fired up the old bad ideas machine to try and find a new way to repeal the ACA.
“Republicans have gone from saying nothing about health care costs all year long, to saying ‘later, later, later,’ even after we are over a week into open enrollment and wasting every bit of time we had for real negotiations. Then—incredibly—Republicans started saying: ‘let’s scrap the Affordable Care Act altogether, let’s end protections for pre-existing conditions.’
“By refusing to work with Democrats on a solution before open enrollment started, Republicans have already pushed millions of Americans off the health care cliff.
“The only question was—and is—could we throw them a rope back up? Could Congress get something done and stem some of the bleeding Republicans have already caused?
“Yes! By passing a clean, one-year extension of the ACA tax credits. But right away, Republicans said they wouldn’t even consider it.
“I believe that we should keep pressing on that fight, as time is of the essence and the clock has nearly run out.
“The reality is, there is a point where it will be too late to make a meaningful difference on the health care premiums. And I don’t believe there is some magical date set in stone, but Mr. President, that’s coming up pretty fast. It’s pretty much now or never—and Republicans are essentially saying ‘never’ to stopping the worst of the MAGA health care hike.
“Now here’s the important thing: This fight is far from over—because I, and many of us, have no intention of letting Republicans off the hook. No one should doubt for a single second who is to blame for skyrocketing health care costs: Republicans and Republicans alone.
“When families across America are paying the price that they will see for Republican inaction every month, I’ll make sure every single one of them remembers: the same Republicans who did everything in their power to make tax breaks for billionaires permanent, refused to even negotiate one year of health care tax credits for our working families, at a tiny fraction of the cost.
“Unfortunately, here we are, and it seems clear Republicans are feeling no urgency to act on health care before it’s too late—even a quick, simple extension to help families.
“But Mr. President, I want to be clear. While I cannot vote for this overall deal today, not when we still need to address health care, I do absolutely support the appropriations bills and CR that we will move forward—which do take meaningful steps to reject drastic cuts and extreme policies pushed by both Trump and House Republicans and make sure that Congress—not Trump—is in charge of federal spending.
“It is important that Democrats were at the table on the CR and our first three funding bills, and used our spot at that table to fight for hardworking families in America.
“The difference is clear in the sharp contrast between the bills we released yesterday, and the bills written by the House Republicans and the budget put forward by President Trump.
“In our bills, Democrats were able to secure real wins for folks back home, and fight off [painful], senseless cuts, and extreme policy.
“On the CR, we made sure to protect federal workers, both by ensuring that they receive backpay they are owed—something that has been debated extensively—and by reversing the punitive RIFs done by this administration… and blocking them from doing more this year.
“In the Agriculture appropriations bill, while Trump and House Republicans fought to make steep cuts to WIC that would have seriously cut benefits for millions of women and kids, we successfully fought together to keep WIC fully funded.
“This bill ensures that seven million moms and babies will get the full nutrition benefits they rely on.
“We also sustained key investments in our rural communities. Because we rejected a Trump funding takeover, we protected housing support in rural communities, and vital agriculture research happening across the country, including in my home state of Washington at WSU.
“We stopped Trump from blowing a truly massive hole in FDA’s budget—which would have slowed drug approvals, and seriously endangered our food supply.
“None of this is inconsequential—all of this matters.
And I want to thank Chair Hoeven and Ranking Member Shaheen for all of their good work on that vital bill for our communities.
In the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs bill we were able to secure funding to ensure that we are taking care of our veterans and our servicemembers.
“And ensure that this administration keep its promises to our veterans by ensuring staffing of critical services such as the crisis hotline centers. I want to thank Chair Boozman and Ranking Member Ossoff for all their good work on this critical bill for our veterans and servicemembers.
“And lastly, on the Legislative Branch bill, while it is smallest bill, it covers the important needs of this institution. From protecting GAO, and CBO, the Architect of the Capitol, our Capitol police and other agencies that actually make this place work.
“To make sure our offices have what they need to take care of our constituents and keep our campus safe. We should all appreciate the hard work that went into completing that bill. And I want to thank Chair Mullin and Ranking Member Heinrich for all their work on that important bill and the critical matters within it to every senator in this chamber.
“Now, obviously those are not the bills I would’ve written on my own. I have concerns we were not able to address in these bills, and Republicans were not open to some of them.
“But I still want to do more, Mr. President, when it comes to delivering critical investments for our communities in our country. And I will—as always—keep pushing my colleagues every day.
“But we did secure real wins for folks back home when Democrats and Republicans were able to sit down at the table together on funding. And they are immeasurably better than Trump and Vought holding the pen—which is what the slush fund CR that we have been operating on this year has allowed.
“I am proud of what we have been able to negotiate to protect key programs families and communities rely on, and protect our authority as lawmakers who are here to be a voice for our constituents.
“I want to emphasize that I really appreciate the work of my counterpart, the senior Senator from Maine, Susan Collins, who has done incredible work on all these bills. I want to thank our subcommittee chairs and ranking members, and all of our staff who worked hard to put these bills together.
“And I want to make clear I deeply appreciate the partnership of my colleagues on the Senate Appropriations Committee who’ve all worked in good faith during these very difficult times and these very difficult negotiations.
“No matter what, these bills need to get done—and our staff put in late nights, and our Chairs and Ranking Members held countless conversations to compromise and work towards solutions.
“I hope to continue building on that progress, and showing what it does look like when we come together and put families before politics.
“I look forward to getting our next minibus up on the floor to move multiple needs bills along that we have marked up in the Committee and get those to conference. And I hope we can be on that package as soon as possible.
“And I look forward to the Senator from Maine and working to get those final bills completed so they too can be conferenced with the House as soon as possible. And I want to thank all of our Committee members and our staffs for their incredible work on these critical bills. We have a lot of work ahead and I know we can get there.
“Passing full-year funding bills ensure[s] that Congress—not Trump or Russ Vought—decides how taxpayer dollars are spent. We should not turn the keys over to Trump and his cabinet secretaries, allowing them to make unilateral cuts and to shift funding around how they please.
“Every day, they prove in some new way how critical it is that Congress assert its authority, and rein in their chaos—and I will continue working to do that on the Appropriations Committee.
“But I will, Mr. President, need to continue fighting to stop the MAGA health care hike for as long as there is still time left on this clock to fix this.
“The reality is, there is a point where it will be too late to make a meaningful difference.
“But until we reach that point of no return—we do have to fight tooth and nail to force Republicans to actually work with us on that issue.
“And because, in this package, Republicans have [refused] to address the health care crisis families are facing right now—a crisis that gets worse, and harder to fix every single day—I will be voting no.
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