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🚨NEW: GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski has cast deciding vote to pass the “Big Beautiful Bill” in the U.S. Senate, which will cut health care coverage for millions of Americans. RETWEET if you think @LisaMurkowski is a coward!
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.@lisamurkowski The people of Alaska have continued to elect a soulless Senator to represent them. IMO Lisa Murkowski hurts people. She hurts her constituents and she hurts her country and she is terrified of Donald Trump. IMO this is a soulless creature with no morals.
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We need to, at the very least, get to a point where we are breaking even. Having such a massive deficit is unsustainable.
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Replying to @elonmusk
Elon Musk: "That I think was the real wakeup call for me was seeing that the interest payments on the National Debt exceeded the Defense Department budget.. I just don't want America to go bankrupt"
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I'm on the Senate floor right now debating Trump's Big Ugly bill, and I really worry Americans do not fully realize just how bad it is. Please help get the word out.   This is just SOME of what's in the bill (so far).
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One of the worst legislative processes I’ve seen. No bill text STILL, almost a trillion out of Medicaid, a subsidy to move a space shuttle to Texas, a statue garden, 4 trillion in debt, random goodies to buy votes. Hospitals will close and kids will go hungry. Trash.
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How many people will lose health care in YOUR state under Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill"? • Alabama – 219,803 • Alaska – 39,989 • Arizona – 365,984 • Arkansas – 158,745 • California – 2,368,466 • Colorado – 240,953 • Connecticut – 86,580 • Delaware – 54,957 • Florida – 1,936,421 • Georgia – 651,540 • Hawaii – 62,483 • Idaho – 72,815 • Illinois – 535,849 • Indiana – 267,996 • Iowa – 113,979 • Kansas – 92,937 • Kentucky – 184,526 • Louisiana – 267,550 • Maine – 61,488 • Maryland – 245,929 • Massachusetts – 326,262 • Michigan – 453,101 • Minnesota – 173,268 • Mississippi – 153,910 • Missouri – 265,298 • Montana – 55,981 • Nebraska – 78,275 • Nevada – 114,500 • New Hampshire – 46,388 • New Jersey – 363,330 • New Mexico – 111,997 • New York – 1,019,121 • North Carolina – 651,982 • North Dakota – 24,488 • Ohio – 489,815 • Oklahoma – 211,794 • Oregon – 198,089 • Pennsylvania – 483,868 • Rhode Island – 47,359 • South Carolina – 285,857 • South Dakota – 33,838 • Tennessee – 310,056 • Texas – 1,671,965 • Utah – 188,494 • Vermont –35,242 • Virginia – 322,984 • Washington – 328,695 • West Virginia – 82,225 • Wisconsin – 276,175 • Wyoming – 20,407 That's 17 MILLION lives Republicans are putting at risk.
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Big update: after overnight meetings with the parliamentarian my team successfully got these exemptions stripped from the bill. Special giveaways to protect certain states from these devastating Medicaid cuts is the worst form of hypocrisy.
Republicans are about to decimate Medicaid across the country and their top two Senate leaders are trying to get their states exempted from the cuts at the 11th hour.
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We’ve been voting for nearly 24 hours trying to stop this Big Ugly Bill. 16 million Americans’ health care is on the line—this bill is bad news for the country. There’s too much at stake to do nothing.
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This would be devastating to US leadership in weather and climate. And folks, sorry to say, it doesn't just impact climate - it is debilitating to weather innovation as well.
We knew this day could come but here we are. The 2026 proposed @NOAA budget shutters all world-class federally funded meteorological, oceanographic, and climate labs in America. Included is @HRD_AOML_NOAA, a fixture for over 50 years in Miami. Hundreds of top scientists tossed.
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Pay close attention to what Tillis is saying here. They delay the deepest Medicaid cuts until after the 2026 midterms... so voters wouldn’t notice until it’s too late.
TILLIS torches Trump’s big bill in a fiery Senate floor speech: “So what do I tell 663,000 people in 2-3 years when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off Medicaid?” He says “amateurs” advising Trump are conflating health care policy with “waste, fraud and abuse.”
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The most absurd example of the hypocrisy of the Republican bill: they have now proposed delaying SNAP cuts FOR TWO YEARS ONLY FOR STATES with the highest error rates just to bury their help for Alaska: AK, DC, FL, GA, MD, MA, NJ, NM, NY, OR. They are rewarding errors.
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Chris Murphy: "This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress."
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There are only 33 people in America who make a billion dollars or more per year. Republicans are ready to explode the deficit, shutter hospitals and rob kids of food— So the top 0.00002% can get a tax cut they don’t need. Read that again.
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Bringing the war home: what Fascists do. Dressed for battlefield combat, deployed to Home Depot. 🤔
I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.
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Pollster: You just never see approval numbers this poor. I have been trying to look through the history books to find if there was another piece of legislation that was on the verge of passing that was as unpopular as this one, and I cannot find one. Just 23% of Americans say that the policies of the Big Beautiful Bill help their family, compared to 49% who say that they'll hurt their family
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Where it starts is never where it starts. The news that DOJ is prioritizing denaturalizations, combined with very vague explanations of who they will prioritize, is deeply concerning. open.substack.com/pub/joycev…
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Really hate how Republican politicians have managed to shift the way political reporters cover energy. Hardly matters if they don't quote climate deniers if they fail to note how many people are killed and sickened by fossil fuel pollution, and how much cheaper solar & wind are.
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This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: nytimes.com/interactive/2025…
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It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.
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