U.S. Senator, Washington state | @SenateApprops Vice Chair | Working every day to help people and solve problems

WA & DC
Joined May 2011
Trump is weaponizing America's Department of Justice to argue that elections can only be certified if Republicans win. This is historic corruption, but he doesn't get the final word. We do at the ballot box. VOTE!
BREAKING: DOJ is suing Alaska to block certification of election results if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. politico.com/news/2026/10/23…
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Defunding medical research doesn’t make America healthy. It makes America sick.
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Republicans think the only way to save Social Security is to cut benefits—they just talk in euphemisms. Democrats have better solutions, like finally scrapping the cap and making billionaires pay their fair share.
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Trump is literally trying to use marriage and birth rates to decide how much federal funding YOUR community might get for transit projects. He is weaponizing federal grants to wage his regressive culture war, and your commute is collateral damage.
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Parents can’t go to work if they can’t find child care. Child care IS infrastructure. Let's PASS universal child care.
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Cutting Medicaid doesn’t save money. It closes rural hospitals. Democrats will push to repeal Trump's $1 trillion health care cuts.
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This is the most corrupt President in history. Trump is trying to extort voters—saying he won’t help veterans if this state doesn’t vote his way. We’ve already seen him illegally withhold funds from “blue” states. We can send this crook a message with our votes and our voice.
Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."
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NO. Congress funds FEMA to respond to disasters that REQUIRE federal support. Trump's already politicized disaster relief—an unforgivable and unAmerican transgression that I don't plan on forgetting. He doesn't get to wave a magic wand and abolish FEMA. I'm fighting back.
BREAKING: Trump's head of FEMA just told states to prepare to handle disasters on their own. The Trump admin's disaster chief told state officials they must increase their financial reserves and emergency capabilities to handle most disasters on their own — without federal help. politico.com/news/2026/10/20…
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Women are 50% of the population, but less than 0.1% NIH's budget is spent on menopause and just 8% on women's health overall. I talked to @drrachelrubin and Dr. Kelly Casperson about why we need more research on menopause and how my bipartisan bill would do that.
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So we are "fighting fraud" by establishing a NEW slush fund where Trump personally decides payouts? What a grift. Trump is serious about fraud—serious about committing it!
Trump: "When you do these things, sometimes there's a dispute about who turned them in and who is supposed to get what and when. So I am going to do something which I think people will like -- I will be the arbitrator of all of these decisions. I'll determine whether the person is deserving ... there's nothing in this for me"
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Trump and RFK Jr. have put our public health system on life support. We can't just rebuild what they've broken; we have to build a stronger public health system and protect it from anti-science political interference going forward.
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Trump promised to end inflation. Instead, the average family has paid $4,700 more under Trump.
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You paid into it. You earned it. Now Republicans want to call it a "Ponzi scheme." My message? Hands off Social Security.
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Trump wants to squeeze families who are already struggling with their student debt, after already raising their prices on everything from gas to health care.   Absolutely not. I'll be pushing back.
The Trump admin is moving forward on plans to impose financial penalties on Americans in default on their federal student loans and hire private debt collectors to go after them. The plans are unlikely to be announced until after the midterms. washingtonsun.com/economy/tr…
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The extremists in this administration are trying to keep their anti-abortion agenda hush-hush until after you vote, so we need to make sure everyone understands abortion rights are at stake right now. VOTE.
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Senator Patty Murray retweeted
Senator @PattyMurray and I met with firefighters and leadership from the WA State Fire Training Academy in North Bend to tour the facility and thank them for protecting our communities from wildfires. In Congress, I’ll keep supporting our firefighters, bolstering local response efforts, and expanding prevention resources.
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Trump and Republicans kicked millions of people off SNAP because they would rather give billionaires more money than make sure working families can put food on the table.
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Families shouldn't be priced out of health insurance or have to skip the doctor or medications because of costs. It’s way past time for universal health care, and I'll keep pushing to make that a reality.
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Medicare open enrollment is underway. Shop your coverage. And remember: Medicare negotiates drug prices now because Democrats fought for it. Not one Republican voted yes.
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Trump started a war no one supported. It created a global energy crisis. The economy runs on fuel—when diesel and oil are more expensive, you will feel it at the pump, grocery store, almost everywhere. Trump’s illegal war is making life unaffordable.
The price of the fuel, used by farmers and truckers, is up more than 75% since the start of the Iran war in late winter. Diesel costs have become a particular concern for economists, who say higher diesel fuel costs trickle down into “just about everything.” nbcnews.com/business/economy…
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