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Cuts to Medicaid
Cuts to student loan assistance
Cuts to SNAP
Cuts to environmental protection & more.

A proposed budget is a road map of priorities, Trump's 2020 budget hurts families, our environment and our global leadership.
Just to be clear, Trump wants to cut $182 billion in funding to feed hungry children and folks in need while giving his billionaire friends a tax cut.
And that’s not all: Trump also wants to kick people off of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program – cutting the programs and taking coverage away from our most vulnerable Americans. Disgraceful.
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Tammy Duckworth
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🚨 Last evening, President Trump’s attorney claimed: “And if a President does something, which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.”
This extreme statement has no basis in the Constitution. It is chilling in its implications. Consider a few examples of the behavior – the “kind of quid pro quo” – that Donald Trump’s lawyers are asking the Senate to agree cannot result in impeachment:
The President could exercise his constitutional authority to grant a full pardon to any person convicted of the federal crime of hacking a political rival’s email, so long as HE believes this quid pro quo will help him get elected in the public interest.
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Tammy Duckworth
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THREAD on my work this week to hold @Amtrak accountable for mistakenly charging a group of wheelchair advocates $25,000 to travel from Chicago to Bloomington-Normal, IL.
Yesterday, @SenatorDurbin & @RepChuyGarcia joined me in sending a letter to @Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson.

In the letter, we expressed our disappointment with Amtrak & urged Anderson to commit to making Amtrak affordable, accessible & reliable for customers with disabilities.
Today, after meeting with @SenatorDurbin & myself, @Amtrak committed to several of the requests we made:

✅ Reviewing Amtrak’s disability policies nationwide
✅ Bringing disability voices to its Board of Directors
✅ Ensuring more focused attention to accessibility issues
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Tammy Duckworth
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I’m disappointed @EsperDoD agrees with @realDonaldTrump that violating chapter 7.7 of the @DeptofDefense Law of War Manual (“Treatment and Handling of Enemy Military Dead”) does not warrant a reduction in rank. This threatens good order and discipline.
The @DeptofDefense Law of War Manual clearly states: “The respectful treatment of the dead is one of the oldest rules in the law of war.” It directs: “Enemy military dead must be protected from disrespectful or degrading acts” which includes “posing with bodies for photographs.”
President George Washington wisely observed that “Discipline is the soul of an army.” By preventing the chain of command from maintaining good order and discipline, Donald Trump is weakening our armed forces and risks poisoning its soul.
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spintested
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Trump’s election year gamble: Slashing the social safety net
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The *only* Democrat running on not just protecting social safety nets but *expanding* them is #BernieSanders.
Democrats like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, all have been on board with cuts.
OBAMA WANTED TO CUT SOCIAL SECURITY. THEN BERNIE SANDERS HAPPENED.
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Amber🌊
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⚠ Thread | Republican Party Platform: Socialism for the wealthy. Biblical capitalism for everyone else.
Nearly 700,000 will lose food stamps with USDA work requirement change

🔗nbcnews.to/2DKfSB0 #ImpeachTrump #Resist #Trump #GOPTaxScam
Welfare for the rich? A $1.9 Trillion tax cut giveaway.

Fun fact: In 2018, 60 Fortune 500 companies paid no taxes on a total of $79 billion of profits.

Welfare for the poor? 2 Thessalonians 3:10

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Lola Netty
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[2013] For Obama, the military of a once-feared superpower is an anachronistic vestige of an America whose exceptionalism & world leadership require repeated apologies. It is to be "his" military and used only for &qinvestors.com/politics/edito… https://t.co/sOPlN9CBMa
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Elijah E. Cummings
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As the Trump shutdown continues in its 20th day, federal food assistance programs – including WIC, school breakfast and lunch programs, the Emergency Food Assistance Program, and SNAP – are in peril, potentially leaving millions with the fear of going hungry.
Because of the Trump shutdown, thousands of families are at risk of being evicted from their homes as @HUDgov cannot renew low-income housing contracts. And, @HUDgov's Real Estate Assessment Center is not conducting inspections, putting the health and safety of tenants at risk.
The Trump shutdown is putting every commuter and traveler in danger. Air traffic controllers are working without pay, 3,000 @FAANews safety inspectors are furloughed, and @NHTSAgov has suspended data analysis and investigations into motor vehicle manufacturing defects.
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Who funds the IEA, the TPA, the ASI &co?
You know, the RW 'free trade' thick tanks advocating tax havens, "freedom" (no regulations like workers' rights or environmental protection), no welfare (no tax & no free healthcare).
Basically, "Only the wealthier survive" philosophy?
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*Could it be* that it has something to do with defending their funders' interests?
Today, I'm going to tell you the Thick Tanks' Hydra tale.
Featuring Atlas, huge piles of money, tradition, "free speech", useful idiots and a very clear agenda that Brexit/Trump are a part of.
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Take a seat: It's a long story, with a lot of players, including politicians, pretty ladies squatting your TV, the climate change denial's network, the global fascist movement, Silicon Valley/multiname data-stealing/misusing company & private companies' involved in elections.
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Zach Everson
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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
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