republicans
Via @indivisibleteam:
#Republicans have a new talking point for gutting #Medicaid & #SNAP to give #billionaires even more #TaxCuts:
“We are all going to die.”
If your senator is a #GOP ghoul like #JoniErnst, they need to hear from the constituents they’re betraying with #Trump’s #TaxScam
#IApol #USpol #Senate #law
https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-tell-your-republican-senators-you-dont-want-pay-price-their-billionaire-tax
"Public schools have always been the epicenter of the right-wing culture war since the Supreme Court ruled segregation was unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education. Abortion, feminism, and LGBTQ+ rights were eventually added to the never-ending list of right-wing grievances."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #Republicans #DepartmentofEducation #education #PublicEducation #PublicSchools #FederalGovernment #integration #race
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/make-american-kids-dumb-and-segregated
"Despite their constant reassurances to the contrary, Republicans have officially begun the process of cutting Medicaid and SNAP benefits to offset the cost of tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. And right on cue, Republicans are playing dumb."
~ Brian Tyler Cohen
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #Medicaid #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
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https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/republicans-play-dumb-on-medicaid
Republican #House Speaker #MikeJohnson urged fellow Republican lawmakers on Tues to avoid #public #TownHall meetings with #voters after some events turned into angry confrontations over #Trump's moves to fire #FederalWorkers & defund government programs.
#cowards #PublicDisservice #Republicans #GOP #RepresentationMatters #USpol #Musk #DOGE #FederalAgencies #SocialSecurity #Medicaid #Veterans #children #seniors #disability #PublicHealth #weather #DisasterPreparedness
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-speaker-urges-lawmakers-avoid-town-hall-meetings-2025-03-04/
Imma just gonna leave this here cuz the dude ain’t wrong.
#border #canada #trump #drugs #republicans #tariffs #tiktok #whompwhomp
The #Senate #Judiciary Cmte voted on Thurs to advance #KashPatel’s nomination to lead the #FBI, paving the way for a floor vote on his confirmation.
The vote, 12 to 10, fell along party lines. In forwarding Patel’s nomination to the full Senate, #Republicans on the cmte dismissed #Democrats’ demands for an additional hearing to question Patel about a host of issues, including grand jury testimony he gave in a #criminal investigation of #Trump that remains sealed.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/us/politics/kash-patel-fbi-senate-judiciary-confirmation-trump.html?smid=url-share
OMG
Yesterday, a #Republican state lawmaker in #Minnesota named #JustinEichorn introduced a new bill he coauthored to legally define "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as a "mental illness" in the state.
Later in the day, he was arrested. For what, you ask?
via @bulwarkonline’s Adam Keiper
#criminal #law #MAGA #Republicans #Trump #pedophile #SexOffender #StatutoryRape
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/18/gop-state-sen-justin-eichorn-arrested-for-suspicion-of-soliciting-sex-with-a-16-year-old-girl/
New today: I created a brief guide to help Texans, especially #LGBTQIA+ folks and allies living here, better understand the legislature and which bills are likely to become law ... and which ones probably won't go anywhere.
If we're going to be share, fight, protest ... we should make it count. https://kitoconnell.com/2025/03/22/bad-bills-texas-legislature-understanding-how-to/
#Texas #TXlege #politics #USpol #transphobia #HumanRights #Republicans #GregAbbott #fascism #genocide #News
US Congress Republicans seek $27 billion for #GoldenDome in #Trump tax bill
#Republicans in the US #Congress plan to introduce a sweeping $150B #defense package that will give an initial $27B boost to Trump's controversial Golden Dome missile defense shield, acc/to a document & a congressional aide.
The measure, which will be in addition to the approved $886B #NationalSecurity budget for 2025, would also fund building 14 warships & lift homeland security spending.
#Trump Sons’ Deals on Three Continents Directly Benefit the President
Donald Trump Jr. & Eric Trump spent the past two weeks traveling the world & announcing new ventures involving billions of dollars.
#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ImpeachTrump #SCOTUS #immunity #Republicans #accomplices
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/politics/eric-donald-jr-trump-family-deals.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=D133B4F8-D174-4E43-8382-B1751B1F6A04
So it turns out that #republicans are the ones canceling Christmas:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/politics/trump-tariffs-dolls-comment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D08.IErv.IE_yFvsuVUSO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #grinch #tariffs #christmas #scrooge #trump #uspol #giftarticle
Tired of their political theater? Dem & Rep hand-in-hand uphold a system that grinds you down for profit. They serve capital, not people. Break from their game! Build real power together. Explore communism – for us, by us. #BeyondTheirSystem #WorkersUnite #democrats #republicans #democracy
Have any #Republicans disavowed #StephenMiller's suggestion of suspending #HabeasCorpus? Asking for a country.
Every time I hear the tangerine dictator speak I’m reminded of what grandma always said: ‘The empty can makes the most noise’.
It didn’t really make sense to me until Trump ran for office in 2015.
#GOP lawmakers seek more #StateLaws on #transgender people
Bathrooms. Medical care. Sports. The definition of "male" & "female." In state legislatures this spring, #Republicans have kept a focus on transgender people. They have filed hundreds of restrictive bills.
The majority don't pass, like the majority of all bills. But dozens have, acc/to groups tracking anti-#trans bills. And, even when they don't pass, they can force votes to drive debate.
#law #transphobia
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/10/nx-s1-5377402/republicans-democrats-transgender-sports-legislatures
The #GOP’s New #Medicaid Denialism
Unable to defend their #healthcare #cuts on the merits, congressional #Republicans have pivoted to magical thinking.
Republicans in #Congress claim to have achieved something truly miraculous. Their One Big Beautiful Bill Act, they argue, would cut nearly $800B from Medicaid spending over 10yrs without causing any Americans to lose #health care—or, at least, without making anyone who loses health care worse off.
#law #Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/medicaid-cuts-tax-bill/683018/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxehuZomZV-OE0U-cMvwG0vA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
How quickly they turn on each other
#Musk calls #Trump’s sweeping #legislation ‘pork-filled’ & ‘a disgusting abomination’
#law #Republicans #broligarchy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/03/trump-presidency-news/
Well that’s something anyway
#Senate #Republicans quietly stripped the provision from the #House #GOP's "big, beautiful bill" that would have allowed #Trump to circumvent the #courts & essentially serve as a #king.
#law #BigBeautifulBill #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #judiciary
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-republicans-big-beautiful-bill-contempt-courts-trump_n_684b9b3be4b0c4fd78ff7f2e
"For those of us who remain horrified by its actions, the White House is hoping we ultimately treat it like we now do mass shootings. That is to say, the administration hopes it becomes so commonplace that we hear about it, shake our heads in resigned hopelessness, and begin to accept it as inevitable."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-administration-cruelty-goal
#Trump already has the weight of the #ExecutiveBranch behind his efforts to strip funding from top #universities, #deport millions of unauthorized #immigrants & pressure #ForeignGovernments to change their economic policies.
With the sprawling bill that passed through the #House on Thurs, #Republicans are also preparing to enlist the #TaxCode as another tool against Trump’s political foes.
#law #RevengePolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/politics/republicans-taxes-trump-opponents.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=D8897650-C8DC-4320-B385-DFA3B3D729D8
BREAKING: Trump said on Tuesday that it would cost Canada $61 billion to be part of his proposed “Golden Dome” missile defense system, but that it would be free if the country became the 51st U.S. state.
In unrelated news, Canadians haven’t stopped laughing at Trump and his Republican band of red asshats since the announcement.
#news #trump #goldendome #breakingnews #canada #ElbowsUp #republicans #MAGA
Let’s admit it. Trump’s ‘golden dome’ is gonna be another bust just like Mexico paying for the six miles of wall Trump actually got built the first time he was in the WH.
That $170 billion price tag will be bringing out Republican frauds and grifts faster than ants to spilled honey. And nothing will be built.
#trump #goldendome #republicans #fraud #grifters #mexico #canada #news
A sweeping #tax & spending #bill passed by #House #Republicans would devote an estimated $150B to #immigration enforcement, an unprecedented sum that seeks to deliver #Trump’s goal of mass #deportations & lock down the US Mexico border.
The bill would provide funding for 10k new immigration enforcement officers & $46.5B for a *wall* along the border while placing new *fees* on applications for #asylum & other #humanitarian protections.
#law
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republicans-seek-cement-trumps-immigration-legacy-sweeping-bill-2025-05-29/
Sen #TinaSmith (D-MN) on Monday confronted Sen #MikeLee (R-Utah) over of series of comments he made blaming #Democrats for the fatal #shooting of a #Minnesota state lawmaker & her spouse.
Shortly after the #Senate began its Monday evening vote, Smith was seen walking into a conference room where #Republicans were about to hold a meeting to discuss the text the Finance Cmte had just unveiled for the party’s massive tax bill.
#PoliticalViolence #MelissaHortman #ethics
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5353746-tina-smith-mike-lee-shooting-minnesota/