Today, my Administration is canceling student debt for 35,000 public service workers through Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
Now 4.76 million folks have benefitted from our various debt relief actions, each receiving an average of over $35,000 in cancellation.
That matters.
Sen. Mitt Romney: "I'm not going to be voting for Donald Trump...When someone has been determined by a jury to have committed sexual assault, that is not someone who I want my kids and grandkids to see as president of the United States." (May 2024)
The Dow Jones is at the highest point in history.
Unemployment at its lowest level in 60 years.
Crime is down 26%.
Inflation down, wages up, and we are not at war.
Now let me just take a sip of water and see how the press is treating the President who achieved all that.
JD Vance:
- Supports a nationwide ban on abortion
- Advocated against exceptions for rape and incest
- Wants women to stay in “violent” marriages
- Said he would not have certified the 2020 election results
- Called Social Security and Medicare “the biggest roadblocks to any kind of real fiscal sanity”
- Praised Project 2025 agenda
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is donating $45 million a month to the Trump campaign.
If democracy is to survive in the US, we need to overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.
We need a government that represents all, not just billionaires.
“How can I look at my wife, my daughters, my granddaughters, and tell them that Donald Trump is a man that you should respect as president, even though he’s been found guilty of sexual assault.”
Last week I urged @SecVetAffairs to use his authority and expand @DeptVetAffairs’ evidence-based lethal means safety training, so that VA staff have the skills they need to help veterans in crisis.
My budget proposes a billionaire minimum tax, requiring the wealthiest Americans to pay at least 25% on all of their income, including appreciated assets—because no billionaire should ever pay a lower tax rate than a school teacher or a firefighter.
I’m bringing $20M in federal funding home to Illinois' 14th District! I visited a few projects that will benefit:
📍@JolietJrCollege's Entrepreneur & Business Center
📍@NIUlive’s microchip innovation & workforce development hub
📍@YMCAChicago
📍DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport
George Santos, a former call center employee falling behind on his rent, lent his campaign a staggering $705,000.
Where did all that money come from? The Ethics Committee MUST start investigating immediately.
From day one, I have worked hard to make sure my community's priorities are reflected in federal funding bills.
I voted to pass the government funding bill today, which invests in our communities, protects our democracy, and supports our veterans.
.@RepRaskin brilliantly underscores the duplicity of Republicans attacking a man they once revered simply because he dared to speak the truth of their corruption. #SCOTUS
🚨 BREAKING: A new poll has revealed that passing the Momnibus is the number one priority for Americans for the end of the year — with majority support from Democrats, Independents, and Republicans!
Moms can’t wait — Congress must pass the Momnibus immediately.
I love seeing the creativity of students in my community firsthand!
I named Olivia, Jensen, and Anshul the @CongressionalAC winners in Illinois’ 14th District. They created "Paws 4 A Cause," an app which helps animal shelters track their inventory and donations.
Stay informed. One outcome saves and enshrines a functional democracy by the people and for the people. The other outcome gives state legislatures dictatorial powers above the vote and will of the people.
@IndivisibleIL @IndivisibleTeam@ACLUofIL
Today, the Supreme Court hears arguments in Moore v. Harper, a North Carolina gerrymandering case where legislators are asking for the power to ignore their own state constitutions.
This case could upend American democracy as we know it — here’s what you need to know.
I just want to make a few things clear:
The Holocaust happened.
Hitler was a demonic figure.
And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides.
Silence is complicity.
If the court approves discrimination against LGBTQ, it becomes ok for a gas station to require the driver is not LGBTQ, then a restaurant, a grocery store, a school district, a voting booth. There is only one fact: discrimination is not acceptable in America @RepUnderwood@HRC
A Colorado designer says she has a First Amendment right to refuse to create websites for same-sex weddings, despite a state anti-discrimination law. The case will be argued Monday before a Supreme Court that has transformed since a similar case years ago. https://t.co/xAUOCfjr0Z