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During his State of the Union Address, President #Biden announced his 4-part Unity Agenda. It includes “Supporting America’s Veterans and Their Families, Caregivers, and Survivors.”
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Last year the #Biden Administration expanded benefits for #veterans, #caregivers & survivors. In 2022, @DeptVetAffairs processed an all-time record 1.7 million @VAVetBenefits claims & delivered $128 billion in earned benefits to 6.1 million veterans & survivors. #POTUS 
Hi all!
It's a 10 minute warning on the start of #Democrat Congressional candidate in #PA01, @ashley_ehasz's #townhall on #ReproductiveFreedom and the role of Congress.
You can watch here:
We'll be live tweeting the whole thing!
It's a 10 minute warning on the start of #Democrat Congressional candidate in #PA01, @ashley_ehasz's #townhall on #ReproductiveFreedom and the role of Congress.
You can watch here:
We'll be live tweeting the whole thing!
If you attended the @ashley_ehasz #PA01 #townhall in person, you'd have seen this (#Antichoice #GOP extremist Brian Fitzpatrick) cardboard guy out front.
That's as close as any version of Fitz would get to a town hall. He sprints away from unscripted constituent contact!
That's as close as any version of Fitz would get to a town hall. He sprints away from unscripted constituent contact!
In case you want a run down of the legislative goods on #GOP #Antichoice extremist Brian Fitzpatrick of #PA01, here's the rundown...
The TL;DR is that Brian Fitzpatrick has ALWAYS voted AGAINST #AbortionRights.
Always.
He's no moderate, don't drink the Kool-aid on that!
The TL;DR is that Brian Fitzpatrick has ALWAYS voted AGAINST #AbortionRights.
Always.
He's no moderate, don't drink the Kool-aid on that!
Need some good news? In just the last few months, the Senate passed the most significant gun legislation in 30 years; one of the largest investments in science, tech, & manufacturing in decades; our largest climate change package ever; and the #PACTAct for veterans' health care.
Just last year we passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the American Rescue Plan, historic investments to rebuild our economy and our nation's infrastructure.
We're already rebuilding roads and bridges throughout New York and the country.
We're already rebuilding roads and bridges throughout New York and the country.
We've made so much progress — and we're not done yet.
Let me know what you want us to tackle first when Congress comes back from recess 👇
Let me know what you want us to tackle first when Congress comes back from recess 👇
Big news! The #PACTAct is now the law of the land!
This is a historic day for millions of veterans across the country who have suffered from debilitating and fatal illnesses for far too long.
This is a historic day for millions of veterans across the country who have suffered from debilitating and fatal illnesses for far too long.
The Honoring our PACT Act, which includes my COVENANT Act and Veterans Disability Claims Notification Improvement Act, keeps our promise to those who fought for us and their families.
As a 20-year Navy veteran, I am proud to have worked with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in the House to pass this lifesaving legislation and expand health care services to our veterans.
1/5. Here is a thread about the #PACTACT because we as Americans have a short attention span, but we cannot let this be forgotten. Part 1: Veterans are camping out on the Capitol steps to bring attention to the cause. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
2/5. Part 2. The stumbling block for @SenToomey was making spending on this act "mandatory" vs "discretionary." He fudged the truth, though. No one added new spending. Making this spending mandatory acknowledges the debt the Nation owes these veterans.
3/5. Here in Nebraska, @SenatorFischer supported Senator Toomey, not Veterans. Even several days later, you will find no press release from Senator Fischer as to the rationale for her vote. Here is her official website. fischer.senate.gov/public/index.c…
Hey, @BillCassidy you were on @ThisWeekABC claiming the "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022" will raise taxes on those making less than $200,000 and referred to the Joint Committee on Taxation for this claim. Can you provide where @JCTgov stated this? I can't find it. /1
According to the Editors at Bloomberg @opinion
"this is a sober attempt at fiscal responsibility"
"this compromise would be a big win...for the US Taxpayer. As America's loquacious president once said in another context, it's a big effing deal." /2
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"this is a sober attempt at fiscal responsibility"
"this compromise would be a big win...for the US Taxpayer. As America's loquacious president once said in another context, it's a big effing deal." /2
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
It allows Medicare to negotiate prescription drug costs. A savings of $288 billion over 10 years for Taxpayers. It's almost like you want to protect Big Pharma profits.
Could this be why you are a NO?🤔 /3
Could this be why you are a NO?🤔 /3
I need everyone to ge ready for a massive Tweetstorm.
Tomorrow the Senate is going to revote the #PACTAct.
As soon as you wake up on Monday, Tweet and share as many posts as you can with #PassThePACTAct
You have 24 hours to prepare content that supports burn pit veterans.
Tomorrow the Senate is going to revote the #PACTAct.
As soon as you wake up on Monday, Tweet and share as many posts as you can with #PassThePACTAct
You have 24 hours to prepare content that supports burn pit veterans.
Want to start today, go wild.
This isn't organized and that's good.
Use the hashtag #PassThePACTAct
WE NEED PRESSURE BEFORE THE VOTE ON MONDAY.
This isn't organized and that's good.
Use the hashtag #PassThePACTAct
WE NEED PRESSURE BEFORE THE VOTE ON MONDAY.
Meme makers, I need you.
Flood the hashtag #PassThePACTAct with memes today.
Plant us some seeds for tomorrow.
Here is one I made super quickly.
Flood the hashtag #PassThePACTAct with memes today.
Plant us some seeds for tomorrow.
Here is one I made super quickly.
Post some truth on all these senators accounts (list in 1st comment) #PactAct
dont let them lie or bullshit their way out of this
It was only to be petty to Dems, they fucked over the vets, only 1 line changed in the bill fr May‘s 84/14
dont let them lie or bullshit their way out of this
It was only to be petty to Dems, they fucked over the vets, only 1 line changed in the bill fr May‘s 84/14
Folks! Veterans are sitting the damn rain because
@sentoomey
blocked the #pactact out of spite over climate funding in a separate bill. Our veterans deserve care now. Join them on the capitol steps now until the next attempt for passage.
@sentoomey
blocked the #pactact out of spite over climate funding in a separate bill. Our veterans deserve care now. Join them on the capitol steps now until the next attempt for passage.
So, yesterday’s response was a bit unexpected. Thanks, @jonstewart for the shoutout. A lot of people are asking for clarification about the toxic exposure fund and the facts around it. Here’s a deeper dive on this part of the #PACTAct.
The first question we need to answer is, when was the toxic exposure fund added to the bill? This was added prior to the first Senate votes in June.
So the fund was in there in June, but did it change when the bill went over to the House? No. And this is something you can verify yourself.
For those following the SFC Heath Robinson Honoring Our PACT Act, the comprehensive toxic exposure bill for our veterans, A LOT happened in the past few days. I want to take a minute to break down what happened and why. Here’s a deep dive thread on #PACTAct
On June 16th, the Senate voted 84-14 to pass the PACT Act. For veteran advocates, like myself, who had been working on this for years, it looked like the bill was a done deal. The House had scheduled it for a vote just a few working days after the Senate passed it.
.@RepBost announced his support, and the President was ready to sign the bill. Hours before the Rules Committee was schedule to hear the bill, so it could go to the floor for the House to pass it, an issue was found that risked the entire bill being ruled unconstitutional.
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We’re here in DC today with @jonstewart & @Burnpit360 lobbying the Senate to pass the Honoring Our PACT Act.
While national leaders drag their feet on this important legislation, our Veterans are suffering.
It’s time to pass the Honoring our PACT Act. #PassThePACTAct
While national leaders drag their feet on this important legislation, our Veterans are suffering.
It’s time to pass the Honoring our PACT Act. #PassThePACTAct
This legislation would expand healthcare coverage for more than 3 million veterans who were exposed to toxins and burn pits during their service.
It was poised to pass, but yesterday 25 Republican Senators flipped their votes and halted the PACT Act.
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It was poised to pass, but yesterday 25 Republican Senators flipped their votes and halted the PACT Act.
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.@JohnCornyn and @tedcruz were among those who chose partisan politics over the health and well-being of our veterans.
Even though Texas has the most Veterans on the national burn pit registry.
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Even though Texas has the most Veterans on the national burn pit registry.
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“WE COULDN’T BELIEVE there were enough people to walk alongside them. One morning we woke up from an uneasy sleep and there was no more laughter…It mustn’t happen again. We can’t let it. We simply can’t let it happen again.”
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
“California [will] make our own insulin at a cheaper price, close to at cost, and to make it available to all…
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.”
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.”
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
“Freedom is under attack in [Florida]… In California [we] still believe in #freedom. Freedom of speech. Freedom to choose. Freedom from hate. And the freedom to love. Don’t let them take your freedom.”
Newsom DeSantis ad #IndependenceDay2022
@GavinNewsom:
Newsom DeSantis ad #IndependenceDay2022
@GavinNewsom:
Pat Cipollone: The rioters have gotten to the Capitol, Mark.
Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.
Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your f—ing hands.
#January6thHearings:
Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.
Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your f—ing hands.
#January6thHearings:
Liz Cheney: The night before #January6th, President* Trump instructed Mark Meadows to contact both Roger Stone and Michael Flynn regarding what would play out the next day.
#CassidyHutchinson: That’s correct. That is my understanding.
#January6thHearings
#CassidyHutchinson: That’s correct. That is my understanding.
#January6thHearings
Cheney: Did Rudy Giuliani [seek a] pardon related to January 6?
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes ma’am.
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes ma’am.
“That could be their vehicle to impose a NATIONWIDE BAN on abortion—on the order of the U.S. Supreme Court… They will now wield [power] however they want…to change the country however they want without restriction, and you must do what they say.”@maddow
“What makes people think that this radical conservative Supreme Court…would allow Congressional law protecting #RoeVWade? I’ll tell you the answer: THEY WON’T…as long as we let these 6 conservative theocrats control our country…”
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
“[Ben Wattenberg 1987 book says] ‘60% of fetuses that are aborted every year are white. If we could keep that 60% alive, that would solve our birth dearth.’ Does that sound like racism to you? And if it doesn’t, I want to know why it doesn’t.”
Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott
Just 3 minutes after President* Trump’s #January6th tweet at 2:24pm about Mike Pence lacking “courage,” a mob of his supporters quickly filled the Capitol.
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
“Dr. Eastman and President* Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign was…a coup in search of a legal theory.”
Judge David Carter 3/28/22
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
Judge David Carter 3/28/22
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
“I've lost my name [and] sense of security—all because a group of people…scapegoat[ed] me and my daughter Shaye, to push their lies about how the Presidential election was stolen.”
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
“President* Trump…followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani—to just claim he won and insist the vote counting stop. To falsely claim that everything was fraudulent… Millions of Americans believed him.”
#January6thHearings:
#January6thHearings:
“The Trump campaign knew these claims of voter fraud were false; yet, they continued to barrage small dollar donors, encouraging them to donate to ‘The Official Election Defense Fund.’ @January6thCmte discovered NO SUCH FUND EXISTED.”
#January6thHearings:
#January6thHearings:
“I said to him: ‘Are you out of your f—ing mind?’ I said, ‘I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on: ORDERLY TRANSITION.’”
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21
@AccountableGOP 🐼 #January6thCommitteeHearings:
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21
@AccountableGOP 🐼 #January6thCommitteeHearings:
“I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen…which I told [Donald Trump] was bullshit… The incumbent [cannot] stay in power based on its view unsupported by specific evidence there was fraud in the election.” Bill Barr
#January6thCommittee: “Did that affect your perspective about the election when Attorney General Barr made that statement?”
Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
#January6thHearings:
Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
#January6thHearings:
“Any legal jargon you hear about seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States — all boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup.”
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
It was easier for a 13-year-old boy to buy a rifle from a private seller at a gun show than to buy beer, cigarettes, porn, and lottery tickets. (🎥:#RealSports 2014)
Gun show loopholes still exist.
Senate Republicans won’t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
Gun show loopholes still exist.
Senate Republicans won’t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
“We are at a point [where] we are going to have to mobilize a greater movement… Until the redemptive power of the love for all of our children is greater than the destructive power of the love of our guns and money, [nothing] is gonna change.”@CoryBooker
“Women and mothers have political power… We need to use our voices and our votes [to] demand change, and if our lawmakers don’t act, hold them accountable— [the] unglamorous heavy lifting of grassroots activism.”
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
“Justice Roberts has said that the Supreme Court can self regulate. That’s simply not true. We’ve got one sitting Justice whose wife has been shown to have been planning the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6.”
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
“Justice Clarence Thomas [at AEI 5/13/22] bemoaned the leak of the SCOTUS opinion that will likely overturn Roe v Wade, [claiming] that when you lose trust in an institution, it changes that institution fundamentally.”
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
“Out of 75+ scholar citations, only 4 are women. Out of 90+ judge/justice citations, 5 are women. ‘Justice’ Samuel Alito cites HIMSELF 6 times. And this [SCOTUS opinion] would effectively govern the bodies of millions.”
@MotherJones tiktok.com/@motherjonesma…
@MotherJones tiktok.com/@motherjonesma…
“We now have the evidence to support a story of the worst presidential political crime against the union in American history.” Jamie Raskin
@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
Laurence Tribe describes what “is being bandied about as the technique that they hope to use if they get Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Alito and Thomas on board… to take the next election regardless of who wins.”
@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
“In America, you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people in power uncomfortable… If Russian journalists [had such freedom] would they use it in the same way? Ask yourself that question every day.”
@Trevornoah #WHCD
@Trevornoah #WHCD
“President* Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election… Frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.”
@Mike_Pence (on Feb 4, 2022) #LegitimatePoliticalDiscourse?
@Mike_Pence (on Feb 4, 2022) #LegitimatePoliticalDiscourse?
“If I run and if I win we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.”
Donald Trump dangling pardons for insurrectionists, 1/29/22
Donald Trump dangling pardons for insurrectionists, 1/29/22
“Lincoln said those who embrace sedition and turn backs on the Constitution threaten to ‘destroy the only democracy in existence and prove for all time — to both future Americans and the world — that a government of the people could not survive.’”@tribelaw
“727 insurrectionists arrested… Who else should be jailed for this unsuccessful coup?” @colbertlateshow
“The threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills. Debate them, vote… If that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster.” @JoeBiden
“[President* Trump] was in the dining room, gleefully watching on his TV as he often did — ‘look at all of the people fighting for me’ — hitting rewind, watching it again…”
former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to CNN
former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to CNN
“We must decide what kind of nation we [will] be. Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? Are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?” @JoeBiden
“727 insurrectionists arrested… Who else should be jailed for this unsuccessful coup?” @colbertlateshow
