IMPACT: Senators Call on DOJ to Investigate Potential DOGE Conflicts of Interest After ProPublica Report
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden and Jack Reed cited our reporting on how one aide assigned to the CFPB helped oversee the mass layoffs of the agency’s staff while holding as much as $715K in stocks that bureau employees are prohibited from owning.
#News #DOJ #Congress #Senate #Ethics #Government #USPolitics
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/
The #Republican controlled #Senate Tuesday passed #legislation to establish a #regulatory framework for #stablecoins, putting the
#cryptocurrency industry, which had long been viewed with suspicion by lawmakers in Washington, on the brink of a major policy breakthrough.
The *GENIUS Act*, followed an aggressive lobbying campaign aimed at transforming cryptocurrency’s image from #scandal-plagued experiment to *legitimate* financial sector.
#law #finance #fraud #Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/us/politics/senate-cryptocurrency-bill.html?smid=url-share
Key #Medicaid provision in #Trump's big tax cut & spending bill is found to violate #Senate rules
The Senate #parliamentarian has advised that a key Medicaid provider tax overhaul that is central to Trump’s bill does not adhere to procedural rules, delivering a crucial blow to #Republicans rushing to finish the massive package this week.
#law #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-big-bill-hospital-provider-tax-f6f4343bbc9c9a279bd7861c2e5c1b7b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-06-26-Breaking+News
#Republicans on the #Senate #Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to approve the nomination of #EmilBove III to a lifetime post as a federal appeals court judge on a voice vote after #Democrats on the panel stormed out. The protest came when the chairman, Senator #ChuckGrassley, called the roll before every Democrat on the committee had a chance to air their objections.
#law #corruption
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/emil-bove-judge-nomination-democrats.html?smid=url-share
The #Senate on Friday rejected a #Democratic measure that would have forced #Trump to go to #Congress for approval of another #military strike against #Iran [he was supposed to for the first]. The resolution had little chance of succeeding in a #Republican-controlled & Trump lick-spittle Congress.
#Constitution #law #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #ExecutiveAuthority #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/trump-war-powers-iran-strike.html?smid=url-share
Conservatives Get the #PBS & #NPR Cuts They’ve Wanted for Decades
The cuts speak to #Trump’s grip on his party but also to the sweeping changes in #media.
They tried under Ronald Reagan & George H.W. Bush & George W. Bush. Newt Gingrich gave it a go when he controlled the #House, & Bob Dole did, too, when he held power in the #Senate.
But for 5 decades, #Republicans failed time & again to choke off #federal #funding for #PublicBroadcasting.
#censorship #autocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/business/media/npr-pbs-funding-cuts-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"Power, Progress, and Patient-Led Change"
An overiew of Advocacy Week 2025 from Solve ME:
https://solvecfs.org/advocacy-week-2025-power-progress-and-patient-led-change/
"In a single week, the Solve M.E. community took part in 187 congressional meetings—sharing powerful personal stories, urgent data, and clear policy goals with Senate and House offices."
@mecfs @longcovid
1/n
#USPol #MEcfs #LongCovid #POTS #Congress #Senate #Advocacy #SolveME
The changes made to #Trump’s big tax bill in the #Senate would pile trillions onto the nation’s #debt load while resulting in even steeper losses in #healthcare #coverage, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a new analysis, adding to the challenges for #Republicans as they try to muscle the bill to passage.
In the runup to a final #Senate vote on #Trump’s big bill of tax cuts & spending cuts, #Republicans have voted down #Democratic amendments to strike portions of the bill that would reduce funding for rural #hospitals, #FoodStamps & #Medicaid.
Sen #SusanCollins (R-ME)joined #Democrats on an amendment to strike language that would force rural hospitals to limit their services.
#law #policy #PublicDisservice
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-6-30-2025#00000197-c1a1-d0e0-abbf-ffbf19690000
The #Senate has passed #Trump’s tax cut & spending bill, sending it to #House for final passage
The #legislation extends trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the #wealthy & #corporations from Trump’s first term & implements new campaign promises, while spending billions on #immigration, cutting millions of people from #Medicaid & #FoodStamps, & increasing the #NationalDebt by trillions.
#TulsiGabbard tells senators #Iran regime is degraded but still intact
The director of national intelligence provided the #Senate #Intelligence Committee with mixed messages about the state of Iran’s #nuclear program before the war began.
#TrumpsWar #war #ForeverWars #Trump #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/18/tulsi-gabbard-iran-intelligence-hearing/
#HouseRepublicans expected to reject #Senate passed #DHS bill, extending #shutdown
#House #GOP leaders are expected to soon announce they are rejecting the Senate-passed bill that would fund large swaths of the DHS but not provide money for #ICE & #CBP operations, & instead pass their own version, 3 sources.
#law #immigration #Trump #extremism #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #ExtraJudicialKillings #murder #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/27/politics/live-news/trump-administration-news?cid=ios_app
#Midterms #primaries updates #GiftArticle link [you *should* be able to access the link till polls close; I probably won’t stay online updating the results]:
So far…
Rep #AndyBarr, a Republican backed by #Trump, easily won a contested #primary for #Senate in #Kentucky, where he will be strongly favored in November to replace the long-serving Senator #MitchMcConnell, who is retiring.
#law #Congress #elections #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/19/us/midterms-georgia-kentucky?unlocked_article_code=1.jlA.aA6f.H9CvndCCciBp&smid=nytcore-ios-share
#Trump says he'll sign #ExecutiveOrder to resume pay for #DHS. His move illegally bypasses #Congress.
He announced the #unilateral move in a social media post, blaming #Democrats [even though #Republicans control both the #House & #Senate] for the impasse.
#ConstitutionalLaw #law #Constitution #PowerOfThePurse #LegislativeBranch #SeparationOfPowers #autocracy #dictatorship #authoritarianism #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/senate-funding-homeland-security-shutdown-4a3e4a3e77bd33213b98888e79a81f51
#Democrat #ChedrickGreene beats #Republican #JasonTunney in a #Saginaw area special #election in #Michigan
Meaning:
The Michigan State #Senate will be 20-18 in favor of the Democrats, rather than a tie
"Who cares, #Trump is the problem"
On the contrary, the #presidency is just a capstone on a huge system, and when we take our eye off the little #elections, we get a systemic rot that leads to someone like Trump
#Vote. Especially the #primaries. It all matters
Does #voting matter?
You tell me:
" #Talarico leads both #Cornyn, #Paxton in new poll of #Texas’ #US #Senate race
#Democrat state Rep. James Talarico is leading both of his prospective #Republican opponents in a new poll of Texas’ U.S. Senate race — though the result is within the margin of error in either scenario, suggesting a close contest in November"
"but i want perfect"
"both sides the same"
"the vote is hacked"
"waah waah"
shut the fuck up
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/28/texas-us-senate-poll-talarico-cornyn-paxton-2026-midterms/
#GOP offers a ridiculous additional $1B for #WhiteHouse “security”, sparking dispute over #ballroom
#Senate #Republicans maintain their proposal would authorize #security construction, but not the #Trump ballroom. The White House disagrees.
Senate Republicans late Monday proposed $1 billion to pay for new White House security measures, with lawmakers & White House ofcls disagreeing over whether the #legislation would cover Trump’s planned ballroom.
#law #waste #fraud
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/05/senate-budget-bill-trump-ballroom/
#Senate #Republicans, unhappy with #Trump $1.8B settlement #SlushFund, delay a vote on paying for #immigration enforcement
Senate Republicans appeared increasingly unlikely to meet their self-imposed deadline for passing a ~$70 billion immigration enforcement bill as disputes over “security” funding for the Trump #ballroom & the $1.8 billion #MAGASlushFund derailed progress.
#law #criminal #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6
https://apnews.com/article/congress-billion-ballroom-trump-funding-bill-republicans-d0b0d2ee59a95f6199d80998ab89d7e4
#Gunshots heard in #Philippines #Senate, where a senator wanted by the International Criminal Court [#ICC] has been resisting arrest
A burst of gunfire rang out Wednesday night in the Philippine Senate, where authorities have tried to arrest a senator who is wanted by the ICC for a charge of #CrimesAgainstHumanity, an AP journalist & other witnesses said.
#law #InternationalLaw
https://apnews.com/article/philippines-gunfire-senate-dela-rosa-icc-fdaeba231d80a51f191b06ce25057f40
#Senate rejects bill to halt #IranWar despite lawmakers’ growing frustrations
It was the first such vote since a deadline passed for the #Trump admin to seek #Congress’s approval to continue the military campaign.
#TrumpsWar #US #Iran #Israel #war #ForeverWars #WarCrimes #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/05/13/senate-rejects-bill-halt-iran-war-despite-growing-frustrations/
#Senate confirms #Trump pick #KevinWarsh as chair of the #FederalReserve bringing #partisan leadership to the world’s most powerful #CentralBank at a fraught moment for the #global #economy.
https://apnews.com/article/fed-warsh-senate-confirmation-b665712fa5d40d3fcea53d80d0a79c64
Three U.S. senators have called for an overhaul of federal agents’ use of tear gas and pepper spray, citing a ProPublica investigation that found at least 79 children were hurt by these chemicals during Trump’s immigration crackdown.
#News #Congress #Law #Senate #ICE #Immigration #Protest #Children #Health
#Congress passed significant piece of #housing #legislation, in rare #bipartisan feat.
The bill’s passage, by a lopsided 358-to-32 vote, ended months of sparring between the #House & #Senate over a sprawling measure that aims to tackle the housing crisis by boosting supply in a country facing an acute shortage of new homes. The Senate passed its version of the same bill Monday, by a vote of 85 to 5.
Former #slumlord #Trump is expected to sign the bill into #law.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/us/politics/congress-housing-bill.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Whiny little worm #Trump berates #Senate #Republicans during his visit to the Capitol over their vote to block the #IranWar.
This is a #democracy moron. You may not act unilaterally nor without reason.
#idiocracy #kakistocracy #unfit #TrumpsWar #US #Iran #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://apnews.com/article/trump-capitol-republican-senators-968c1454ede461d2db413790670c07df
