Thursday, June 25, 2026

The Snapshot

Thursday, June 25, 2026.  Chump and Republican US senators exchange words, Chump's faithful turn out for a speech from the Convicted Felon and large numbers leave half-way through the speech, the courts are delivering some harsh verdicts for Chump, Pete Hegseth remains unqualified to be the Secretary of the Defense, and much more. 


Ben (MEIDASTOUCH NEWS) brings us up to speed on the Iran War this morning.


Delusional and demented Donald Chump, Convicted Felon of the United States, no longer can recall what he said mere months ago.  Reanna Smith (THE MIRROR) reports:

For more than 100 days, Donald Trump has reassured the American public that the war in Iran has effectively been won by the US.

He has repeatedly claimed victory in the conflict, even going as far as declaring that it was achieved within the "first hour" of the war. But now the president appears to have backpedaled on those bold claims.
On Tuesday, 116 days after the conflict began, he admitted Iran is only now "on the 'ropes,' ready to go down for the fall." The president took to Truth Social to boast about the achievement as he complained about the US Senate approving a War Powers Resolution demanding that he halt hostilities against Iran and seek congressional approval before continuing any military action.
[. . .]
The post suggests that the US had not already achieved the victory Trump had previously declared.



Yesterday, Chump interacted with Republican senators. Arthur Delaney and Jennifer Bendery (HUFFINGTON POST) report:


It started with Trump demanding to know why anyone would vote for a resolution to end the war in Iran, as four Republicans had done on Tuesday, despite ongoing peace negotiations. 
“He asked, ‘Why would anybody vote for the War Powers Act?’ As he continued, I said, ‘Is that a rhetorical question, or would you like to really know?’ He said, ‘I’d like to know,’” [Senator Bill] Cassidy told reporters after the meeting. 

“I stood and said, ‘You have not told the American people what’s going on. It was supposed to last four weeks, it’s lasted four months. Our original objectives have not been achieved, and I want to know what’s going on.’”

Cassidy said he told the president he’d continue voting for resolutions to end the war until the administration gives lawmakers a briefing. He said the account was not necessarily verbatim, but other senators confirmed there’d been a testy exchange. 

“As I recall,” Cassidy continued, “he did not particularly care for my comments, raised his voice. I lost my temper — that’s inappropriate, it’s the Irish in me —  but I again matched his tone and his volume, and it went back and forth, but at some point, my guys said, ‘All right, Bill, sit down,’ and so I sat down and tried to de-escalate.”






The more-than-hourlong meeting with Mr. Trump focused mostly on the Iran war and the War Powers Resolution. On Tuesday, the Senate approved a Democrat-led resolution to keep the president from ordering further military action in Iran. Four Republicans voted in favor of the concurrent resolution, which is symbolic and does not carry the force of law.
A source directly familiar with the meeting told CBS News Mr. Trump expressed his discontent with Republicans, including Cassidy, who had worked with the Democrats on the resolution. 

The president also shared his disdain for Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski. "It was very awkward when she walked in right after he said that," the source said.

Murkowski arrived at the meeting late, telling reporters that she had a previously scheduled event. Afterward, she questioned his decision not to sign the housing bill.

"If he chooses to hold up his own agenda because he wants action on the SAVE Act, that's — I guess — his call. It is not helpful to him. It's not helpful to the country, and it's not moving the needle," Murkowski told reporters. "If you don't have the votes, sir, you don't have the votes."



Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) described Trump as “mad as a murder hornet” about the Iran vote, while Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) described the scene as “very much like a hospital board meeting, when a bunch of doctors are yelling at each other.”

Marshall added that “at the end of the day, we'll figure out a way to get along.”

Another GOP senator, granted anonymity to speak candidly, called the lunch “very intense.” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), deploying some go-to congressional lingo for heated encounters, called it “spirited,” “frank” and “candid.”

And the two also note Chump's inability to move past the Save America Act:

Instead, Trump’s surprise declaration, which appeared to catch even some of his own staff off guard, became the latest curveball for Senate Republicans — following a surprise request for White House ballroom security funding and the announcement of a Justice Department “Anti-Weaponization Fund” that overshadowed and delayed passage of a GOP immigration enforcement bill.

Since then, Trump also has thrown a key surveillance program into limbo and upended the confirmation plans for his own nominee for director of national intelligence.

Most persistently, he has fixated on Senate Republicans passing the SAVE America Act — including by eliminating the filibuster — even though Thune and other GOP senators have said repeatedly that there aren't the votes to do that.

“There is a huge group of people who really appreciate what the president is doing right now and it's the Democrat party,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said. ”And we’ve got to get our act together and stop surprising people and stop having conflicting messages.”

Meanwhile, Chump's name has been removed from The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  But the removal was done behind a tarp and the tarp remains obscuring the title of the building.  Mike Scarcella (REUTERS) reports:

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to explain why it placed a tarp over the Kennedy Center's façade after the Republican leader's name was removed from the building under a court order.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said the administration must report by July 31 "the purpose and status of the tarp and scaffolding" now in place at the iconic building.



Last month, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper found that the president had illegally put his name on the performing arts center when it was added in December. Further, the Obama-appointed judge ruled that only Congress had the power to change the name of the Kennedy Center, formally known as “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.”

But it seems Trump’s team isn’t taking that well.
On June 13, workers complied with the judge’s order, removing Trump’s name from the once-storied performance center. But in its place, they erected scaffolding and a tarp that almost completely obscures the name on the building.

The scaffolding and tarp extend almost entirely up the side of the building. Crews even ensured that the doors to the center below the sign remained accessible, suggesting the cover-up would stay in place for some time.
Cooper, for his part, appears to have caught on. On Wednesday, the federal judge ordered a status report by the last day of July detailing “the purpose for and status of the tarp and scaffolding that Defendants have erected on the front portico of the Center, to the extent they remain at that time,” Deadline reported.

It's not a good time for Chump judicial wise.  Priscilla Alvarez (CNN) reports: 

A federal judge in California on Tuesday issued a nationwide block against the Trump administration’s policy of making arrests at immigration courts, putting an end to a practice that garnered national attention.

Last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement began detaining migrants in courthouse hallways across the country, sometimes moments after pleading their cases. The move raised alarm among attorneys and advocates who said the practice was turning immigration courts from places of due process into zones of fear and punishing people who were following the rules.
[. . .]
In a 71-page ruling, Judge P. Casey Pitts acknowledged the “chilling effect” of ICE’s policy, finding that it was “arbitrary and capricious.”

“For the avoidance of doubt, simply extending the 2025 courthouse-arrest policies to cover immigration courthouses would not cure those policies’ fatal defects. As the Court has previously detailed, the policies entirely fail to address the chilling effect of courthouse arrests on noncitizens’ attendance at court proceedings, which is both a critical factor underlying ICE’s 2021 guidance and an ‘important aspect of the problem’ in its own right,” Pitts said.

Elliot Spagat (INDEPENDENT) adds, "This ruling marks the second judicial setback for courthouse arrests, following a May decision by a federal judge in New York. However, while the earlier order applied only within New York, Judge Pitts' latest decision invalidates the policy nationwide."  And, as Betty noted last night in "Hateful Chump gets blocked in his attacks on trans people," a judge stood up to Chump on medical records. AP's Larry Neumeister notes, "A judge temporarily blocked federal prosecutors in Texas from getting access to the medical records of transgender patients treated at New York hospitals on Wednesday, saying they were part of an improper government effort to “demonize and eradicate an entire population of transgender” people."  Neumeister reports:

At a Tuesday hearing, Failla was critical of the federal government, saying executive orders addressing transgender issues contained “language some people might consider inflammatory.”

She said it seemed from an “atmospheric perspective” that the government was “rounding up” vulnerable individuals by finding out the most personal information about them and then “giving them no comfort they're not going to be ostracized or even harmed.”

“There are episodes of this in our history and they are not nice episodes,” Failla said. “Some may see it as a rounding up of people for all bad purposes.”

Most major medical groups say access to gender-affirming care is important for people with gender dysphoria. Transgender teens, parents and providers have described it as life-saving for children who are depressed or suicidal because their gender identities do not match the gender assigned them at birth.


A divided federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the Justice Department is not entitled to Michigan's voter registration list containing sensitive information from voters in the state.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit is now the first appeals court to weigh in on the Trump administration's efforts to obtain the unredacted voter rolls from more than two dozen states. At issue in the case decided by the 6th Circuit is the Justice Department's demand for the information from Michigan.
In a 2-1 decision, the 6th Circuit said a provision of federal civil rights law does not entitle the government to Michigan's voter registration list, which contains the names, birth dates, driver's license numbers and partial Social Security numbers of all registered voters in the state, among other information.


Chump, of course, is used to bad news.  He takes it and then lies about it to make himself look better.  Yesterday, he spoke in DC and even a crowd that turned out for him wasn't interested as evidenced by their departing while his speech was far from over.




Watch the crowd disperse while Donald continues speaking and droning on.  

This after his trip earlier this week to Pennsylvania attracted only a small crowd.  

He is suffering from an enthusiasm gap, to say the very least. 


With midterms approaching, Republicans in Congress should be taking note.  But even when they do something that could help the country -- and help them get re-elected -- Chump has a way of screwing that up.  From last night's THE NEWSHOUR (PBS).




Amna Nawaz:

Welcome to the "News Hour."

President Trump has upended Congress' plans for a major housing bill, refusing to sign legislation that passed with veto-proof majorities as he tries to force action on his voting reform agenda.

Geoff Bennett:

The tactic is familiar.

Earlier this year, the president derailed a bipartisan deal on intelligence and surveillance legislation while pressing lawmakers to adopt that controversial voting bill known as the SAVE Act. Now he's using a housing package that many lawmakers expected would be signed into law today as a new point of leverage.

Andrew Desiderio covers the Senate for Punchbowl News and joins us now.

Andrew, always great to see you.

So, the White House had prepared for this signing ceremony. Lawmakers were gathered there on Capitol Hill, and then President Trump says via social media that he's not going to sign the bill after all. You have to tweet up on the screen right there. You were there with the news broke. How did Republican senators react?

Andrew Desiderio, Punchbowl News:

They were shocked, I mean, dumbfounded.

As you mentioned, the president has done this a lot lately where he has blindsided Republican leaders. But a signing ceremony usually happens at the White House. This one was set up in the Capitol Building itself here in what's known as Statuary Hall. They had a stage set up. They had the presidential emblem there, a desk for him to sign it.

And just about an hour before he was supposed to leave for the Capitol, he put this message on TRUTH Social, saying that he wasn't going to sign it into law until the Senate and the House sent him, as you mentioned, the SAVE America Act, which is legislation that has virtually no chance of passing either chamber, frankly, at this point, but especially in the Senate, where the filibuster exists.

And what's fascinating about this particular rift between Senate Republicans and the president is that the president was already scheduled to attend a lunch meeting with Senate Republicans right after the signing ceremony, which he came to anyway.

And the conversation ended up devolving into mostly an argument between himself and Senator Bill Cassidy over the Iran war. And the president really didn't open it up for Q&A at all about the SAVE America Act issue and the fact that he's blocking now the bipartisan housing and affordability bill, which, by the way, got 85 votes in the Senate and nearly 400 votes in the House.

Geoff Bennett:

Right, bipartisan, veto-proof majority. What leverage does the president really have at this point as it relates to this bill?

Andrew Desiderio:

Well, he has leverage in the sense that he could just hold out in not signing it.

But there is a 10-day clock that starts to run, but only when the speaker of the House officially transmits the bill to the White House. Speaker Johnson, of course, a close ally of President Trump, has not officially done that yet.

So, if he doesn't actually transmit this bill to the White House, that 10-day clock doesn't start to run. And if he does, then the 10-day clock runs, and, at the end of it, the bill automatically becomes law without the president's signature.

Now, if the president were to get the bill eventually and then veto it, Congress could vote on overriding that veto, but it takes two-thirds in both chambers. If you take into consideration the fact that it got huge margins in both chambers to begin with, you would think that they would be able to easily override this veto.

But veto override votes tend to be very interesting, in the sense that a lot of members back off of their initial support for a piece of legislation when it comes to a veto override because they don't want to be seen as crossing the president.

So who knows, honestly, what's going to happen with this bipartisan housing affordability bill, which Republicans really, really want to focus on, because they know that affordability is the number one issue for voters in the midterms.

Geoff Bennett:

Well, yes, let's talk more about that, because the president dismissed this housing bill as being of minor importance. That was the phrase that he used. But housing costs, affordability remain a top issue for voters heading into November.

So, how much of a political vulnerability does this open up for Republicans?

Andrew Desiderio:

It's a major political vulnerability.

The president's poll numbers are already at historic lows. Voters are already saying that they in these surveys are very dissatisfied with the state of the U.S. economy, the cost of living, again, affordability concerns, and they want to see Congress and the president addressing that.

And, instead, what we're seeing is, of course, the president having this fixation, this obsession on the SAVE America Act, which, as I mentioned before, has virtually no chance of actually becoming law. And it's something that Republican leaders think they can use against Democrats to show that they're against voter I.D., for example, which is usually an 80/20 issue in this country, right?

So what the president is also doing is, he's preventing Republicans from even seeking political benefit from that issue on its face. And so it really is not just blindsiding them, but dumbfounding the Republican leadership up here, to the point where I have Republican senators coming to me and openly questioning whether this president is intentionally, deliberately trying to blow up their congressional majorities.

Geoff Bennett:

Wow.




Loose Lips Hegseth has been a nightmare as Secretary of Defense.  Marco Margaritoff (HUFFINGTON POST) reports:

MS NOW host Jen Psaki on Tuesday interviewed South Carolina congressional candidate Nancy Lacore, a three-star admiral and former chief of the Navy Reserve who was fired last year by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Psaki had the pleasure of informing Lacore on the air that she had won the Democratic nomination, but only after the dismissed U.S. service member chronicled her journey into politics following Hegseth’s purge last year of senior military officials.
“It was an abrupt end,” recalled Lacore. “I was one year into what is normally a four-year job, you know, was notified that I was being relieved, effective immediately. I walked out of the Pentagon an hour later — and I struggled to figure out what was next for me.”

She continued, “But the one thing I couldn’t shake was this feeling that I wasn’t done serving. I thought I was going to be in uniform serving for three more years and decided there’s too much at risk. I can’t sit on the sidelines. I can serve differently.”

Lacore launched her campaign in January.

She will now be running in the general election for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, held by Rep. Nancy Mace (R), after defeating Mac Deford. Before learning that she had won the nomination, Lacore explained why a Democrat could be a popular choice.

“I think the fact that every day we turn the TV on and this administration is doing something that harms Americans helps, right?” Lacore said. “People are fed up with this administration. And … I focus on what matters to everybody in this district … the cost of living, affordability.”
President Donald Trump frequently dismisses widespread affordability concerns and has launched a costly and deeply unpopular war with Iran. Lacore said her district has “a huge veteran population” of “fed up” people who approach her about these issues “in tears.”

She also spoke rather bluntly about Hegseth requesting an additional $80 billion from Congress to help cover the cost of the war, calling this “predictable” and “unacceptable.”



She is only one of many qualified people that Hegseth has fired. Along with firing, his 'leadership' has also led to a number of people deciding to leave.   Konstantin Toropin (INDEPENDENT) reports:

General Christopher Donahue, the commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe and Africa, is unexpectedly stepping down after only 18 months, the Army confirmed late Tuesday.

Donahue, famously the last American soldier to depart Afghanistan in 2021, will relinquish his command on July 2. His departure marks the latest in a series of nearly two dozen top military leaders who have either retired or left their positions early under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who advocates for "less generals, more GIs" in an effort to streamline the military's senior ranks.
[. . .]
An Army official, speaking anonymously due to the sensitive nature of the discussions, indicated that Donahue’s departure coincides with internal discussions about downgrading the US Army Europe and Africa Command from a four-star to a three-star position.

This potential change comes amid ongoing criticism from Hegseth regarding European allies. Last week, Hegseth informed NATO allies that he would initiate a six-month Pentagon review of American forces in Europe, designed "to ensure that NATO is moving fast and irreversibly toward Europe leading, stepping up to take primary responsibility for the defense of Europe." He added, "It’s a review that some countries will fail and others will pass with flying colors."







The command Donahue now leads is also set to be downgraded from a four-star command to a three-star post, according to another U.S. official, part of Hegseth’s broader push to shrink the number of generals across the force.

Officers serving as four-star generals are only eligible to hold a position of that rank. If there are no other slots available, then the only option left for them is to retire.

Idiot Hegseth was noted last week due to vaccines and his waiving them:


Lawmakers are now pointing fingers directly at the Department of Defense. Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren, Mark Kelly, and Kirsten Gillibrand sent a harsh letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The politicians are demanding answers after a drone strike killed six American service members in Kuwait. The incident occurred during the opening hours of the conflict with Iran.

“We are concerned that this is part of a larger pattern in which this administration has failed to protect Americans in the region from Iranian retaliation,” the letter stated, according to Daily Beast.

Senator Warren did not hold back her criticism. Speaking to ABC News, Warren insisted that Hegseth “must be held accountable” for the tragedy.

She added that “Hegseth’s leadership has been one betrayal after another.” The letter argued there were insufficient “plans to prevent possible harm from foreseeable attacks,” including acts “like retaliation with drone strikes.”


Let's drop back to last Friday:

Hegseth is notorious for so many things -- most of them hideous.  That would include his refusal to wash his hands.  Hygiene isn't a big thing with Hegseth nor are vaccines.  And that's coming back to haunt him.  Greg Jaffe and Maggie Haberman (NEW YORK TIMES) report:

A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.

The outbreak at the base in San Antonio raced through an Air Force Basic Military Training wing, where new recruits sleep on bunk beds in open bays and share meals at large communal tables.

A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, the Air Force said in a news release. It was not immediately clear whether the death of the trainee, Keon McDaniel, was related to the flu outbreak.

A comprehensive medical review into his death is underway to determine the cause, according to the Air Force.

In the weeks since Mr. Hegseth’s vaccine policy took effect on April 21, only about 40 percent of Air Force trainees have opted to take the vaccine, which had previously been mandatory, an Air Force official said.

And this is happening right now.  Imagine what awaits come winter.  Hegseth, ruining America just a little bit more each day. 


There's an update on that story, the number has risen to 222.




Zachary Leeman (MEDIAITE) notes a new policy this week: 

Military branches are reintroducing flu shot requirements as an outbreak has been growing at Lackland Air Force Base, where new recruits are trained.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ended flu shot mandates for the military in April, ending a mandate that had been in place since 1945. Hegseth said at the time that it should be a service member’s personal decision whether to get vaccinated or not.

But you can't do that with the flu vaccine and the military.  It impacts readiness.  You'd think even an idiot like Hegseth would have realized that but, no, he didn't.  


Zachary notes:

Approximately 40% of new recruits in San Antonio had flu vaccinations earlier this month, according to ABC News. Now, however, it appears Hegseth’s rule is being walked back as Pentagon officials say new recruits for the Army, Navy, and Air Force will now be required to get flu vaccinations. The current crop of recruits will be vaccinated and all recruits going forward.

There will be reportedly be far more exceptions to Hegseth’s optional rule put in place soon, too, which will lead to vaccination mandates for deployed troops, healthcare personnel, and more.

In a functioning administration, Hegseth would have grasped his last straw several major mistakes ago.  In Chump land, he's just another screw up who screws up repeatedly. 



Lets wind down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office:

The government website directs women to Option Line, a finder tool for unregulated, often nonmedical anti-abortion facilities that has exposed the sensitive data of pregnant women.

“Moms.gov is not about promoting women’s health—it is an attempt to use HHS resources to further strip women of their rights and privacy.”

Text of Letter (PDF)

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), pressed President Donald Trump and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the Trump Administration’s new website, Moms.gov, which directs pregnant women and their loved ones to unregulated and often nonmedical anti-abortion facilities known as crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs).

“This raises profound concerns about the health, safety, and privacy of people who access this government website at a time when women’s health and reproductive rights face increasing attacks,” wrote the senators.

On Mother’s Day, the Trump Administration launched Moms.gov as “a groundbreaking website for new and expecting mothers,” purporting to “offer[] guidance and information to support the health and well-being of mothers and their families.” Rather than connect people with licensed health care providers and evidence-based resources, a button reading “Find Pregnancy Centers Near You” steers them to an external site called Option Line, a CPC finder tool that collects data on pregnant women.

CPCs receive at least tens of millions of dollars in federal funding and, though advertised as legitimate care providers, do not provide comprehensive reproductive care and are not bound by federal privacy protections, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which protects “sensitive health information from disclosure without patient's consent.”

CPCs have been known to cause dangerous delays in medically necessary care, putting women’s health and lives at risk. In recent cases, CPCs in Massachusetts and Texas allegedly failed to identify life-threatening ectopic pregnancies, leading to emergency surgeries. These incidents are especially troubling in light of reports that a major CPC support organization advised affiliated centers to avoid providing ultrasounds that could reveal ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages, raising serious concerns about patient safety.

The website also includes a direct link to Option Line, a collection tool operated by Heartbeat International, an anti-abortion organization with a history of data breaches. Option Line collects sensitive personal information and may share it with third parties, posing serious privacy risks. In one breach, Heartbeat International compromised the privacy of thirteen people by reportedly uploading an unencrypted training video to the internet revealing their names and medical histories.

“At a time when reproductive health data is being used to criminalize women, the Administration’s use of federal funds to direct women to a private data-collection system, operated by an anti-abortion organization known to collect and share personal data unrestrained by federal privacy guardrails, is cause for alarm and warrants significant scrutiny,” wrote the senators.

“In this hostile environment, women deserve a government that will work tirelessly to ensure that they have access to health care that improves their lives, receive accurate medical information from legitimate health care providers, and that their private health information will be protected. Instead, the Trump administration continues to advance policies that restrict reproductive freedom and block access to care,” concluded the senators.

The letter, sent on the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, demands that HHS remove the crisis pregnancy center link from Moms.gov, stop using federal resources to direct women to anti-abortion CPCs, and provide answers to a set of questions regarding how it will protect the health and data privacy of the women who enter this site.

This letter was also signed by Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.).

This letter is endorsed by Reproductive Freedom for All, National Partnership for Women and Families, National Women’s Law Center, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

“Anti-abortion centers—so-called crisis pregnancy centers—push misinformation, rely on deceptive tactics, and endanger pregnant people by delaying access to legitimate care,” said Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju. “These centers cannot be trusted to protect people’s sensitive reproductive health data any more than they can be trusted to protect their health. We thank Senator Warren, Senator Hirono, and Leader Schumer for their leadership in demanding answers about Moms.gov’s alarming promotion of these centers and their history of endangering people’s health and data privacy.”

“Moms.gov is propaganda for anti-abortion extremism, plain and simple,” said Katie O’Connor, senior director of federal abortion policy at the National Women's Law Center Action Fund. “Moms.gov is taking advantage of the fear and confusion caused by the constantly shifting landscape of abortion access to direct pregnant people to dangerous anti-abortion centers, which are known to spread false and misleading information in an effort to dissuade people from getting abortion care. We are grateful to Senator Warren for her leadership in calling out the dangers of this website and demanding more information from the administration about why they are directing people to resources that could put women’s health at risk.”

"The Trump Administration is using Moms.gov to push a coercive, pronatalist agenda by promoting crisis pregnancy centers, or fake clinics, over actual reproductive healthcare providers,” said Rosann Mariappuram, Director of Reproductive Health and Rights at the National Partnership for Women & Families. “Fake clinics seek to deter pregnant people from obtaining abortion care through lies and deceptions. They are known for reckless data practices that endanger the privacy of the women and girls who walk through their doors or visit their websites. Directing people to Moms.gov is one of many tactics anti-abortion extremists are employing to surveil pregnant people. We join Senator Warren in calling on HHS to remove the pregnancy center link from Moms.gov and instead use federal resources to help people get the care they need without fear or judgment."

Senator Warren has led the fight to protect women’s reproductive rights:

  • In May 2026, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) led the entire Senate Democratic caucus in reintroducing a resolution affirming that the abortion medication mifepristone is safe and effective and underscoring that law and policy related to the medication must be equitable, transparent, and based on the best available peer-reviewed evidence-based science.

  • In May 2026, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) led 12 senators in pressing the Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on the Commission’s efforts to weaken a rule affirming employment protections for workers undergoing fertility treatments.

  • In March 2026, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.); Ron Wyden, Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee (D-Ore.); and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) led 23 colleagues in publishing a new report revealing the harm Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress have caused to Americans in the six months since their dangerous provision to “defund” Planned Parenthood, buried in their Big, Beautiful Bill, went into effect.

  • In November 2025, ahead of the Senate Finance Committee’s confirmation vote for Thomas M. Bell, Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General (IG), U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) exposed Bell’s flip-flopping and slammed his extreme anti-abortion views.

  • In July 2025, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) pressed Michael Stuart, nominee for General Counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on his dangerous anti-vaccine views, staunch anti-abortion advocacy, and more. Ahead of his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Finance Committee later today — at which Senator Warren will question Stuart — Senator Warren sent Stuart a letter outlining her key concerns with his nomination.

  • In February 2025, Senators Warren and Duckworth pressed Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Trump’s then-nominee for the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), on his hostile anti-abortion record.

  • In December 2024, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) reintroduced the Health and Location Data Protection Act, legislation banning data brokers from selling Americans’ sensitive personal information.

  • In September 2024, at a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Elizabeth Warren highlighted the dangerous consequences women faced after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

  • In January 2024, on the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) spoke on the floor of the United States Senate about the fight ahead to restore abortion rights and protect reproductive freedom.

  • In December 2023, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) led 40 other lawmakers in introducing a resolution in support of equitable, science-based policies governing access to medication abortion.

  • In May 2023, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) expanded their investigation into the effects of state abortion bans on women, as the country neared the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

  • In March 2023, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), along with Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), sent a letter to Walgreens CEO Rosalind Brewer, expressing concern regarding recent reports that the company would not dispense medication abortions in 21 states where Republican Attorneys General have threatened the company.

  • In January 2023, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Cori Bush (D-Mo.) sent a letter to the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) in support of their October proposed rule on employee status, which would help reclassify potentially thousands of misclassified workers.

  • In November 2022, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and eight Senate Democrats sent a letter to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf encouraging the agency to defend Americans’ reproductive rights and to consider steps to protect and expand access to medication abortion.

  • In November 2022, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) released a new report: Post-Roe Abortion Bans Threaten Women’s Lives: Health Care Providers Speak Out on the Devastating Harm Posed by Abortion Bans and Restrictions. The 23-page report – based on information provided by leading health care providers – reveals the devastating consequences of state abortion bans and restrictions enacted by right-wing legislatures and the impacts of Senate Republicans’ extreme proposal to ban abortion nationwide after 15 weeks.

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