How dare you, Senator Collins?
We’re busting our asses to save your tight race, and you thank us by teaming up with Democrats to kill the SAVE AMERICA ACT?
Shame on you.
@kyledcheney The idiocy of this entire discussion is stunning. Arguing against beautification of our Nations Capital is absurd. It’s only because Trumps Administration is taking the lead. If it was a Democratic Admin ~ crickets.
🚨BREAKING: The Secretary of Homeland Security just admitted, on camera, that he is going to violate your First Amendment right to free speech.
He said, “I have ZERO tolerance. If you verbally assault our officers… we will find you, we will arrest you.”
Except… that’s not how the First Amendment works.
Unless someone is making a credible threat of violence, speech… even rude, angry, or insulting speech… is still protected.
That’s the whole point of a free speech clause… to protect the people from situations where those in power don’t like what’s being said.
So, when a top federal official starts framing “verbal assault” as something you can be arrested for, without clearly defining it as an actual threat…
It stops sounding like protecting officers, and starts sounding like a government trying to silence people who speak out against it.
What is extremely disturbing is that not one reporter in that room had the guts to tell Trump that the Reflective Pool is simply a pool of water and isn't comparable to a building's height.
It's the most insane nonsense he drummed up AND HE PUT IT ON A BOARD to show everyone how DUMB he is.
The world looks on at the @POTUS demeaning himself in public like a clown. Sad.
The far-right Supreme Court has issued another partisan redistricting decision.
Extremist MAGA justices have done nothing but advance the political interests of the Republican Party.
They have zero credibility.
Katie Lane is the first Trump 2.0 judicial nominee to receive a NOT QUALIFIED rating from the American Bar Association.
She’s never even tried a case.
There are 3,000+ licensed attorneys in Montana. Pick a different one.
Republicans have caused health insurance premiums to skyrocket for millions of hardworking taxpayers.
Why?
They don’t give a damn about the personal finances of the American people.
Trump wants to hand out 250 pardons this summer to celebrate America’s 250th birthday.
And guess who’s lining up for a pardon? Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted of helping sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein recruit and groom underage girls. Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto fraudster convicted of one of the biggest financial frauds in American history, who wiped out the life savings of thousands of ordinary people. Jho Low, accused of stealing $4.5 billion from his own country’s government.
Welcome to the latest episode of the Pardon Papers.
A presidential pardon is one of the most serious decisions a president can make. It exists for when the justice system genuinely gets something wrong, not to be handed out by the hundreds.
The President of the United States is not a king. What Trump is doing is an abuse of power, plain and simple. I’m fighting for a constitutional amendment to put limits on it, because no president should be able to do this. Not now. Not ever.
In December, President Trump called for me to be investigated, arrested, and hanged over a 90-second video that restated existing law.
My lawyer's advice was straightforward: go quiet. Keep your head down. This will blow over.
But in this administration, the reality is that keeping your head down does not keep you safe. Staying quiet when power comes after you does not make the threat go away. It just teaches the people making the threat that it works.
When a president can call for the arrest and execution of a sitting senator for quoting the law, and the expected response is silence, that's a problem that goes way beyond me. That affects every American who works in government, every journalist, every ordinary citizen who might speak up.
A grand jury of ordinary Americans looked at this situation and said no. They understood what was at stake, and I think most Americans do.
We refuse to accept that this is the new normal.
This moment isn't really about me. When the administration is willing to go after a senator this way, it sends a message to every American who might speak up. That should concern people in both parties.
At some point in the future I believe we are going to find out that Donald Trump actually lost all 3 elections and never really secured more than 15-20% of the vote in any election.
My staff is on the ground at Delaney Hall following reports of retaliation against hunger strikers including pepper spraying and beating detainees.
At least two ambulances have been seen entering the facility.
This brutality must stop immediately.
I call on Leader @RepJeffries, @SpeakerJohnson, Leader @SenSchumer, and @LeaderJohnThune to demand the President and his Out Of Control DHS secretary to stand down so detainees can receive the proper medical attention.