As our economy teeters on total disaster because of the republican debt crisis it’s important to spell out exactly what will happen if republicans succeed 🧵
 
To start, full Social Security checks will stop. If republicans collapse the entire economy Medicare will freeze, crushing millions.

Corrupt republican judges are taking a sledgehammer to the pillars of American life.

Democracy is in peril. It’s obvious we must expand and balance the Supreme Court and I’d like to explain why (🧵) Expanding the court is about balance. It‘s been 53 years(!) since Dems held a sup court majority.

Since then republicans have appointed 16 justices; Democrats 4.

The high court isn’t a reflection of America and hasn’t been in ages.

As republicans lie today about their threats to blow up the economy I think it’s important to spell out exactly what will happen if they succeed
 
To start, full Social Security checks will immediately stop. If republicans collapse the entire economy Medicare will freeze, crushing millions.

As republicans keep threatening to blow up the economy I think it’s important to spell out exactly what will happen if they succeed 🧵

To start, full Social Security checks will immediately stop. If republicans collapse the entire economy Medicare will freeze, crushing millions.

As republicans keep threatening to blow up the entire economy I think it’s important to spell out exactly what will happen if they succeed🧵

To start, full Social Security checks will immediately stop. If republicans collapse the entire economy Medicare will freeze, crushing millions.

🧵 As republicans and lying fox “news” propaganda try to whitewash and lie about January 6, watch the clips here to remember what happened that day. Before they breached the Capitol, the fascist mob constructed gallows and nooses and threatened police officers with violence.

I have a new essay in @HarvardJOL on why Congress is dysfunctional. How can we fix Congress? I wanted to do a thread 🧵 unpacking it. harvardjol.com/wp-content/upl… Congress’s dysfunction starts with size. In 1977, the average House district was 469,000 Americans. Today: it’s 760,000 — 62% higher.

But over that same period, the number of staffers in our offices has dropped -3.5%. We have fewer staff than when Star Wars was in multiplexes!

I have a new policy essay in @HarvardJOL on why Congress is dysfunctional. Here’s a thread 🧵 unpacking it.
harvardjol.com/wp-content/upl… Congressional dysfunction starts with size. In 1977, the average House district was 469,000 Americans. Today: it’s over 760,000 — a jump of over 62%.

But over that same period, the number of staffers in our offices has incredibly dropped -3.5%.

As republicans keep threatening to blow up the entire economy I think it’s important to spell out exactly what will happen if they succeed🧵

To start, full Social Security checks will immediately stop. If republicans collapse the entire economy Medicare will freeze, crushing millions.

As republicans continue threatening to topple the entire US economy I think it’s important to spell out precisely what will likely happen if they succeed🧵

To start, full Social Security checks will immediately stop. If republicans collapse the entire economy Medicare will freeze, crushing millions.

This was the most productive Congress in generations. I want to highlight some of our achievements in a thread 🧵

Democrats supercharged the economy creating over 10,000,000 jobs and record unemployment. Last year Democrats sent stimulus checks to millions of Americans. Every single republican voted no.

This thread (🧵) highlights important votes in Congress the last two years to show republicans’ grotesque record.

When Democrats acted to stop greedy gas gouging on May 19, 2022, every single republican in Congress voted no. When Democrats acted to cap the price of insulin at $35 on November 19, 2021, every single republican in Congress voted no.

I want to do a quick thread on the Supreme Court’s arguments today.

The Voting Rights Act, one of the most important laws ever enacted, is at the precipice of destruction. It is the most deadly step yet in republicans’ march to ending fair elections in America. If the rightwing Supreme Court destroys what’s left of the Voting Rights Act elections will be rigged. Votes stolen. Majority-minority districts dismembered. The tidal wave of republican suppression laws will crash on us all.

The republican Supreme Court is on a rampage. Six rightwing judges, elected by no one, are taking a sledgehammer to the pillars of American life.

Democracy is in peril. It’s obvious we must expand and balance the court and I’d like to explain why (🧵) Expanding the court is about balance. Few Americans know that it has been 53 years(!) since Democrats held a court majority.

Over that time, republicans have appointed 16 justices; Democrats 4.

This court is not a reflection of our country and it hasn’t been for a long time.

On the first anniversary of the insurrection on the Capitol, I am not simply mourning. Because Jan. 6 never ended. Our democracy remains under attack today, and I fear we are sleepwalking in the face of grave danger. What I remember most about Jan. 6, 2021, isn’t what happened during the insurrection, but what happened after it.

When the seditionists were finally removed 68% of the republican caucus voted to overturn the presidential election. They tried to finish the job of the rioters.

Yesterday a terrorist threatened to detonate a bomb in our nation’s capital unless “Democrats and Joe Biden step down”. He spewed rightwing conspiracy theories and risked the lives of thousands. He is not the first and will not be the last. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/… This terrorist’s ranting is indistinguishable from the election lies spread by rightwing media and amplified by elected republicans. Republicans who lied about the election also invited the Jan 6 insurrection, and I demanded they not be seated in Congress ⬇️

Today I am again calling on Pres Biden to fire every trump appointee on the Postal board of governors for their silence snd complicity in Louis Dejoy’s corruption wrecking the Post Office. Dejoy’s chaos and corruption is out of control. A week ago we learned dejoy is using the Post Office to wet his beak and line his families’ pockets.
washingtonpost.com/business/2021/…

Rightwing domestic terrorism is a threat to every community in America — and it is growing.

At long last we have a President ready to call it out by name and crush it.

https://twitter.com/abc/status/1404743764934021121

I’ve been sounding the alarm on rightwing domestic extremism for over a decade.

Back in 2009 I pleaded w/ my colleagues to listen to the warnings. They were tragically buried after Rush Limbaugh and other liars created a firestorm.

Our annual Congressional Art Competition produced some outstanding entries. Check out the three winners: we have some artistic geniuses in North Jersey! First place: “Left Behind” by Gian Lee of Englewood Cliffs. Terrific right?!

For 11 years, gop states have refused to expand Medicaid, killing their own citizens out of spite for the ACA.

The American Rescue Plan includes $34 Billion to coax the holdouts to sanity. I'm praying state leaders like TN republicans stop clinging to cruelty and do this.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1375168105572405248

The 12 states that *still* refuse to expand Medicaid through the ACA are AL GA FL KS MS NC SC SD TN TX WI WY.

Future generations will be stunned by republicans who killed thousands of their own neighbors just to spite President Obama and the ACA.
motherjones.com/politics/2021/…

Today I’m joining @GerryConnolly 50+ members laying out the case why President Biden must fire the entire Postal Board of Governors to save your USPS.
pascrell.house.gov/news/documents… On January 25 I became the first member calling for the entire Postal board to be fired for their silence and complicity in trump and dejoy’s attempts to subvert the election and destroy the Post Office.