ChelseaCat

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[ChelseaCat @ChelseaCat75]

@SenTomCotton @SenateGOP sucks. You all really, really suck. You should all lose your seats and the entire country will celebrate when you are replaced with people who actually represent the will of the people. Read the room asshats.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP.

Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept.

You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to.

You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to.

You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to.

Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats.

Let's be precise about what you did:

1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer.
2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM.
3. You punted to reconciliation. "Good possibility," you said. Not "we will." Not "guaranteed." Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year's bill with no certainty of future funding.

The precedent you set:

You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins.

But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered:

• Voice vote to avoid accountability
• Empty chamber to avoid debate
• Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny
• Immediate recess to avoid questions

You'll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't bend them to win one.

What you've actually accomplished:

Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded.

Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded.

And you're out here tweeting about how Democrats are the "Defund the Police" party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning.
The question you should answer:

Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM?

Why couldn't it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record?

You know why. Because you didn't want your voters to see what surrender looks like.

Here's my message: We saw it anyway.

Stop hiding behind "Democrat obstruction." You're the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome.

Own it.

[Rep. Andy Ogles @RepOgles]

YES or NO VOTE below ⬇️
- Senate must immediately return to DC
- Remove Majority Leader Thune
- Install an America First majority leader
- Immediately vote to nuke the filibuster
- Pass the Save America Act
- Confirm the president's nominees
- Publicly apologize to the American people
List from @toddstarnes

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation."

You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process.

Here's how we know:

Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you.

Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work:

Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill.

Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results.

Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess.

Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate.

You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months.

Now let's talk donors:

• Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user
• Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify
• Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration
• Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants

Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail."

Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable.

We see the loop.

You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed.

What we want:

1. Force a real talking filibuster.
2. Stop hiding behind process.
3. Pass the SAVE America Act.

YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents.

You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time.

Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

The press isn’t interested in talking about it, but the Biden family is the largest crime syndicate that America has ever seen.

I don’t care what party you are, if you are an elected official involved in influencing peddling, money laundering, and buying prostitutes, I want you exposed.

[ChelseaCat @ChelseaCat75]

@Twitter Has anyone asked about twitter and x Corp?

[ChelseaCat @ChelseaCat75]

@elonmusk @thevivafrei He already was.

[ChelseaCat @ChelseaCat75]

@uptownsaul @NVXRP1 Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. :)

[Eleanor Terrett @EleanorTerrett]

Crypto Catch-Up with John Deaton and Charlie Gasparino https://t.co/CI2PvAl8MA

[Digital Asset Investor @digitalassetbuy]

Congress Everything is now briefed in SEC vs. @ripple This is an unprecedented case where the SEC has literally actively harmed the XRP investors they claim to protect for over two years. Today is a great day to recap why TODAY MUST BE A NEW DAY in the USA.

[Bob Good @RepBobGood]

Washington can’t continue to do what it has always done and expect a different outcome.

We must change the status quo for the good of the country.

[ChelseaCat @ChelseaCat75]

@RepMarkGreen If you support McCarthy you lose my vote…it’s really that simple.

[Inner City Press @innercitypress]

Yep - can't wait to see how SBF's counsel try to explain why he should be given more secrecy than other defendants in SDNY Magistrates Court. To the degree they cite Ghislaine Maxwell, note she was rightly detained pre-trial...

[Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸 @EricSpracklen]

Can we hit 1M?

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#ExposeFauci

[_gabrielShapir0 @lex_node]

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[Inner City Press @innercitypress]

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[Inner City Press @innercitypress]

VLOG: On #FTX, questions after Caroline Ellison & Gary Wang plead guilty - where did they plead? Why are their agreements redacted? And where *is* Sam Bankman-Fried, said to be "transported directly to @SDNYLIVE"? https://t.co/T8hjJzAl9x & https://t.co/B5nO7I3bmS

[ChelseaCat @ChelseaCat75]

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[Darren J. Beattie 🌐 @DarrenJBeattie]

Disney child actor with underage sex scandal, Jeffrey Epstein, potential crypto scam that could make FTX look like child's play, and a money laundering op for the government to secretly pass funds to rebel groups

It's all here... read it

https://t.co/5zXlwPOwbW

[ChelseaCat @ChelseaCat75]

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