I was not a fan of breaking the filibuster. I am now. The Senate will never do peoples work if it requires up to 10 Republicans. Break the filibuster, pass voting reform legislation, & watch the Republicans come back to work when Americans start getting what they voted for.
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Here’s a grand bargain: businesses take on the additional cost of paying their employees a $15 minimum wage (with automatic cost-of-living increases), but thanks to government-funded universal health care they no longer have the huge cost of paying for their employees’ insurance.
Jared Kushner used WhatsApp to message Saudi Crown Prince MBS off of government servers. We sued to keep the records from being destroyed. We won. https://t.co/N4y0zhZeLP
@AOC The Senator from Texas saw a crisis and escaped to the Ritz Carlton in Cancun.
Meanwhile, a congresswoman from New York - whom that TX Senator regularly uses as a punching bag - just raised a million dollars for Texans.
One party works for you. The other works for themselves.
Call me a radical lefty, but I don't think 15 members of Congress should be allowed to sit on corporate boards when they're supposed to be serving their constituents.
Imagine being a policymaker in Washington, having witnessed the massive economic, social, and health destruction over the last year, and think that the greatest policy risk we face is providing *too much* relief.
Sounds silly, right?
$1.9T should be a floor, not a ceiling.
And with Vice President @KamalaHarris casting the crucial tie-breaking vote, at 5:30am after 14 hours of debate, the Senate has passed a $1.9 trillion budget for COVID relief. Georgia voters made this possible.
Breaking: Schumer & Pelosi have filed a joint budget resolution, setting up the reconciliation process to streamline passage of Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID package with or without GOP support