Democrats saved people. Like f*ck republicans. They got what was needed for the farmers (whether they deserve it or not), hurricane survivors, gov't workers, amd more. Those who voted for the bill saved America, again.
๐จTHE HOUSE HAS PASSED a bill to avert a midnight shutdown.
THE BILL passed 366-34-1
170 Republicans voted yes, 196 Democrats voted yes. 34 Republicans voted no. A total of
ZERO Democrats voted no. Dems saved Republicans here.
NO DEBT CEILING -- House Republicans weren't at ALL moved by Trump's demands to lift the borrowing cap. Trump effectively asked for one thing. he didnt get it.
ONTO THE SENATE.....
Tonight, the Senate finally corrects a fifty-year mistake by passing the Social Security Fairness Act.
Millions of retired teachers and firefighters and letter carriers and state and local workers have waited decades for this moment.
No longer will public retirees see their hard-earned Social Security benefits robbed from them, thanks to this bill.
No. This bill corrects a specific injustice that literally robbed certain public servants of our EARNED Social Security benefits - not just teachers, also police, firefighters, postal workers and others.
Workers whose career jobs are not covered under SS, but instead by a different state retirement system which we pay into instead have never receive SS benefits for THAT JOB. However, most of us also had other earnings throughout our lives (before, after and concurrent with the job for which we earned a state pension), and were required to fully pay into SS for that income. Reagan caused a law to be passed in 1983 (yes, to get revenge on teachers), that penalized anyone who also receives an unrelated state pension. NOTE: not for anyone else who has a pension, like corporate employees- just public servants. It cut our EARNED SS benefits in roughly in half. This was the federal government literally stealing what we earned. In my case, as I am just filing for SS now, my earned benefit is just under $1400/month--calculated based ONLY on the income on which I paid SS taxes. I was to receive only $686, after that atrocious law was applied to my case, because I also earned a teacher's pension. Now I, and millions of others, will receive the benefits we earned.
My last vote ever in Congress was to keep the government funded and avert a government shutdown that would have harmed vulnerable communities.
Todayโs Republican Party is showing the dangers of oligarchy.
The fight to uphold a democracy for and by the people continues.
They told us that the machines would not be on the internet and then we find out that some were on STARLINK. What if? Just what if? This is like when they leave an open truck of sneakers sitting unlocked in the hood? IYKYK
Breaking: Trump has announced that he's appointing Tom Homan as his border Czar.
For all of you Latinos for Trump that were worried that you'd be separated from your families, fear not. He says you will deported too.